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This page provides you with all news from Universität Hamburg, which is divided into the following categories: 19neunzehn, Campus, Research, In focus, Internal, Interviews, and Videos.

19 March 2026|In focus

Enriching Current Debates Through a Literary Lens

Prof. Zumbusch bei der Preisverleihung

Photo: DFG/Ausserhofer

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch of the University of Hamburg has been awarded Germany’s most prestigious research prize. The professor of modern German...
18 March 2026|Research

Doing the Research: Climate Policy – Does It Live Up to Its Name?

Dr. Anne Gerstenberg

Photo: privat

The University of Hamburg is the scientific home to more than 6,200 researchers. Every 2 weeks, we offer a glimpse into their work as part of the...
4 March 2026|Research

Doing the Research: Why Do Some Trees Keep Their Dead Leaves?

Dr. Thea Lautenschläger

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Many of you have probably seen this before, when walking through a bare deciduous forest in winter, suddenly there’s a tree with brown leaves clinging...

2 March 2026|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Burkhardt strengthens the Humanities.

Photograph of Prof. Dr. Stefanie Burkhardt

Photo: Private

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Religious...
27 February 2026|In Focus

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen

Photo: Andreas Weiss

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen has been focusing on sustainability for more than 20 years, both as a research topic and in his own scientific work. As...
26 February 2026|Research

Titles, Theses, Doctorates: How did comics get into schools?

Anna Strunk

Photo: private

Comics as an educational media in the classroom are nothing special these days. This was not always the case: in the 1950s, they had a bad reputation...
20 February 2026|Excellence Strategy

“Nostalgia Is Not a Strategy”—Clear Words and Optimism During Speech on Europe’s Future

University President Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren (third from right) welcomes Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder, Paolo Gentiloni, Liv Assmann, Luigi Mattiolo, and Dr. Roberto Luppi (from left to right) to the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Global crises, doubts, and criticism from inside and outside: Paolo Gentiloni, the former Italian prime minister and EU commissioner, discussed how...
20 February 2026|In Focus

The University of Hamburg awards more than 300 Deutschlandstipendium

Award ceremony in the Audimax

Photo: UHH / Esfandiari

Festive award ceremony in the Audimax: more than 300 students from all disciplines granted monthly funding from companies, foundations, associations...
19 February 2026|Research

Doing the Research: Low German through the ages

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schröder

Photo: UHH / Esfandiari

The University of Hamburg is the scientific home to over 6,200 researchers. Every 2 weeks, we offer a glimpse into their work in the Hamburger...
5 February 2026|Research

Doing the Research: The Accelerator Ring Doesn’t Fit in the Lab

Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner

Photo: University of Hamburg / Feuerböther

The University of Hamburg is the scientific home to over 6,200 researchers. Every 2 weeks, we offer a glimpse into their work in the Hamburger...
4 February 2026|Forschung

14 million euros for the development of a fusion energy laser

Das Team, das IFuEL vorgeschlagen hat: (von links) Mikhail Pergament, Franz Kärtner und Hanns-Peter Liermann

Photo: DESY/Marta Mayer

A research team from five institutes, coordinated by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and the University of Hamburg, is receiving millions in...
28 January 2026|Research

The Importance of Internet Memes from the Linguistic Perspective

Ein Meme über Memes

Photo: Adobe Stock/TShirt Empire

Memes have become an integral part of communication, primarily in social media. But how exactly does the interplay of text and image create meaning...
27 January 2026|Research

“Angola’s Green Jewel Is Vanishing Before Our Eyes”

View of the Serra do Pingano

Photo: Barbara Ditsch

Dr. Thea Lautenschläger, scientific director of the the University of Hamburg’s Loki Schmidt Garden, and Dr. Manfred Finckh from the Institute of...
26 January 2026|Campus

“The online election is a prime example of our digital strategy”

Porträt von Chief Digital und Chief Information Officer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Gerling, LL.M.

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

The election for the Academic Senate is the first election at the University of Hamburg to be held online. Chief Digital Officer Prof. Dr. Sebastian...
23 January 2026|Campus

Welcome! Delegation from the University of Groningen Visits University of Hamburg

Representatives of the Universities of Groningen and Hamburg meet.

Photo: UHH/Wichmann

On 22 January 2026, University of Hamburg representatives met their colleagues from the Netherlands. The collaboration with the University of...
21 January 2026|Research

Take a break! How we learn and remember

Network of nerve cells highlighted in red against a blue background

Photo: Adobe Stock/solvod

Our brain is inconceivably complex and it changes every moment of our lives. In the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, Prof. Dr...
19 January 2026|Campus

Building Begins for the Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory (HAFUN)

HAFUN groundbreaking

Photo: University of Hamburg / Yzer

Today’s festive groundbreaking with Maryam Blumenthal (science senator), Dr. Andreas Dressel (finance senator), Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren (president of...
15 January 2026|In focus

The University of Hamburg Assumes Presidency of EUGLOH in 2026

Symbolic picture for the European university alliance EUGLOH, in which a group of women hold up European flags

Photo: University of Hamburg / Göttling

International exchange and networking: the University of Hamburg has been a member of the European University Alliance for Global Health for several...
14 January 2026|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Nagy strengthens Education.

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Nagy

Photo: private

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time...
8 January 2026|Excellence

Diaries as Historical Resources: Mounted Combat

Photo of a diary page

Photo: Warren Breckman

Twenty diaries from World War I form the basis for a research project led by historian Prof. Dr. Warren Breckman from the University of Pennsylvania...