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Creative writing & texts full time, bachelor of arts.

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Summer and Winter Semester

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Literary Writing

Digital media are changing the way we read, write and publish texts: We are flooded with information and stories and at the same time have ever new possibilities to publish texts and to reach many readers immediately. In the B.A. degree in Creative Writing and Texts you learn how to develop texts for a wide variety of formats and contexts. In addition to artistic-literary texts and books, you write blog posts, podcasts, TV series scripts, song lyrics, advertising messages, concepts and PR texts, among other things.

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- Submission of a letter of motivation (300 - 500 words): show us your passion and motivation for writing! Why do you want to study Creative Writing and Texts? Where do you see yourself in the future? - Submission of one or more self-written artistic texts or excerpts (maximum of 1,500 words) - Submission of a non-fictional text (maximum of 1,500 words) - Submission of an uncommented reading list with 10 books and texts that were or are particularly important to you

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Creative Writing for the Stage

This study programme focuses on three areas: creative writing for the stage, dramatic practice and analytical dramaturgy. After two years of basic study and an intermediate examination students in the programme continue with a further two years of advanced study in which audio drama and screenplays are also covered. Graduates of the programme are awarded a university qualification equivalent to a Master´s degree. Workshops with acclaimed authors and directors as well as collaborative projects with other departments and professional theatres supplement the seminars. The programme aims to attract the greatest possible diversity and prospective students representing different cultures, generations and personalities. They are encouraged to apply. Applications are accepted every two years in the autumn and require the submission of a scene written by the candidate, two texts following specific guidelines and an analysis. In recent years eight students were accepted from an average of 170 submissions.

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Creative Writing is a captivating field dedicated to the art and craft of producing compelling written content. It encompasses various genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Students explore narrative techniques, character development, plot structuring, and stylistic elements to express ideas and stories creatively. The curriculum emphasizes originality, self-expression, and refining writing skills through workshops and critiques. Skills developed include storytelling, critical analysis, editing, and imaginative thinking. Graduates often pursue careers as authors, screenwriters, journalists, or in publishing. Creative Writing is ideal for those with a passion for storytelling and a desire to explore the depths of human experience through written language.

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Explore Berlin through Narrative: A Creative Non-Fiction Workshop

What is your Berlin story? This writing workshop explores the German capital through the genre of ‘creative non-fiction’, or essays based on real experiences. Students study the city, get lost in plot, then refine narratives as a group. Together, we summon the desires and exhilaration of city life on the printed page. This writing workshop is open to everyone, because we all have a story to tell.

Day 1: Monday 26 June (full day)

Morning: Introduction to the course and to one another. Discussions on the elements of prose: voice, point-of-view and perspective; scene and description; argument; style, form and register.

Afternoon: Historical introduction to Berlin City Writing, background for site-specific writing. Readings, and writing plans, are assigned for the next day.

Day 2:  Tuesday 27 June (half day)

Morning: Free Writing exercise. Literary introduction to Berlin City Writing: comparative authors and approaches to the City (Hessel, Isherwood, Regener, etc.). Presentation of writing plans. 

Afternoon (no class) : Is free for Writing . Students write their first draft of their essays on Tuesday afternoon and all day Wednesday. They submit their essay drafts to the email group by 4pm Wednesday. Students read and comment on each other’s work before class on Thursday. 

Day 3: Thursday 29 June (half day)

Morning: Mini Workshop. We spend the morning workshopping and exchanging comments on the first draft of each other’s work. 

Afternoon (no class) : Is free for Revision. Students refine their work, preparing their second drafts. 

Day 4: Friday 30 June (full day)

All Day: Workshop Day. We spend most of the day workshopping and exchanging comments on the second draft of each other’s work. We will then spend the remaining time revising as a group. 

Students are asked to polish their work for presentation the next day, emailing their final work by 9am Saturday so it can be included in the volume of students’ work. 

Day 5: Saturday 1July (full day)

Morning: A field trip in the city, to find stories the city tells. 

Afternoon: We present final work, reflecting on the writing process and Berlin. 

Joseph Pearson  is a non-fiction writer based in Berlin. His book, a portrait of Berlin, was published by Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press (distr.) in 2017. He is the essayist and blogger of the Schaubühne, Berlin’s best-known theatre. Since 2008, he has been the voice of The Needle, one of Berlin’s most popular blogs. He writes for the BBC, Newsweek, Monocle Magazine, The New England Review, and others. He has lectured at Columbia University, NYC, and chairs a writing seminar at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. Born in Canada, he received his doctorate from Cambridge University, UK. His new book will appear in 2022 by HarperCollins and The History Press, and in Spanish translation.

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56 Best universities for Creative Writing in Germany

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Below is a list of best universities in Germany ranked based on their research performance in Creative Writing. A graph of 62K citations received by 9K academic papers made by 56 universities in Germany was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

Please note that our approach to subject rankings is based on scientific outputs and heavily biased on art-related topics towards institutions with computer science research profiles.

1. Free University of Berlin

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2. Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main

3. University of Munich

4. Heidelberg University - Germany

5. Humboldt University of Berlin

6. University of Cologne

7. University of Hamburg

8. University of Freiburg

9. Saarland University

10. University of Bremen

11. University of Tubingen

12. University of Gottingen

13. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

14. University of Leipzig

15. University of Munster

16. University of Konstanz

17. University of Bonn

18. University of Bielefeld

19. University of Erfurt

20. University of Duisburg - Essen

21. University of Marburg

22. Ruhr University Bochum

23. University of Trier

24. University of Potsdam

25. University of Stuttgart

26. University of Wurzburg

27. University of Augsburg

28. University of Giessen

29. Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf

30. Dresden University of Technology

31. University of Bayreuth

32. University of Erlangen Nuremberg

33. University of Siegen

34. Kiel University

35. RWTH Aachen University

36. TU Dortmund University

37. Technical University of Munich

38. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

39. University of Wuppertal

40. University of Regensburg

41. University of Kassel

42. Technical University of Berlin

43. Osnabruck University

44. Darmstadt University of Technology

45. University of Mannheim

46. University of Bamberg

47. Braunschweig University of Technology

48. Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg

49. Leuphana University of Luneburg

50. Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

51. University of Passau

52. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

53. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

54. University of Paderborn

55. Leibniz University of Hanover

56. University of Rostock

The best cities to study Creative Writing in Germany based on the number of universities and their ranks are Berlin , Frankfurt , Munich , and Heidelberg .

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Creative Writing degrees teach ways of building stories by expressing thoughts, feelings, and emotions using the written medium, as opposed to simply presenting written facts. Future creative writers learn to use elements of fiction, character creation, and plot development. Upon graduation, you’ll have the opportunity to work as a play writer, screenwriter, journalist, or fiction writer.

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If you already have an advanced knowledge of German (level B1 and above), you can attend our German writing course. In this German course you will write texts in German and improve your written expression . We offer writing courses for professional or creative writing.

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Contents: What do I learn in the online German writing course?

In these special online courses, you will be given writing tasks on various topics and write your own texts. Our German teachers will read and correct them and give you constructive feedback and tips - for example on typical mistakes in sentence structure, punctuation or capitalization. In this way, you will gradually improve your writing in German.

We offer our online German writing courses in two models:

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• Sample book: Klett German intensive writing B1

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• Sample book: Hueber German practice reading and writing B1

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Fast but lasting learning success in a pleasant learning atmosphere and with modern communicative methods. Whether in-house or online: Our highly motivated and well-trained German teachers are all native speakers and really enjoy teaching.

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Kreatives Schreiben / Creative Writing

Course Level

beginner - advanced / 1st - 4th year

Course Languages

German and English German language skills are an asset, but not necessary

Course Type

Soft skills course

Course Classification

This is not a Themis course. However, it can still be taken by Themis students under the general course-selection rule that one of the courses can be chosen from the general course offer outside the Themis course programme.

Contact Hours

approximately 2 hours per week

Teaching Mode

online with asynchronous instruction via Blackboard That means that class hours are not fixed. You will be asked to meet whenever you want with three or four other students from your writing group.

ECTS-credits

5 (if course has been attended regularly and assignments have been submitted on time)

This course will be taught in irregular intervals. It will be available in the winter term 2024/25.

Time Schedule and Course Venue

Please see our electronic course catalogue

Course Content and Learning Objectives

The central principal of this course is that by studying the techniques of creative writing, we can vastly improve our legal writing. To that end, we’ll explore a variety of literary forms – from short story to poem, TV script to graphic novel. By learning to pay closer attention to words, sentences, and paragraphs, we will cultivate both greater facility and greater confidence with language. To become better writers, we must also become better readers, which is why we’ll divide our time between reading and writing. Course sessions will consist of readings, short craft lectures, small group discussions, writing exercises and prompts, workshops, and revisions. You should expect to read, write, and share work – and to constructively give and receive feedback. By the end of the course, you will have developed a basic understanding of narrative craft and hopefully had some fun along the way. Our primary goal will be to make your writing more precise, legible, and engaging. We’ll also develop practices for accessing and unleashing creativity and using language to think outside the box. The course will be taught mostly in English, but students may write in German or English. No previous creative writing experience is required. After a successful trial semester and by student request, this course will be offered  completely asynchronously . Note that you will be asked to coordinate with other students to complete the assigned tasks – in other words, you will  not  be able to perform  all  the assignments on your own. At the beginning of the semester,  you will divide into Writing Groups of 4-6 people; you will meet on your own time to complete the group exercises (about 50% of coursework); the other 50% of coursework you can do on your own.  Please  enroll in the course on Blackboard  as soon as it opens up, usually a few days before the course begins.

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yes (that means that the number of participants is limited and that you might not get a place in this course)

Course Registration

via Campus Management

Please sign up for this course under the module "Schlüsselqualifikation A" or "Schlüsselqualifikation B".

You will find this course on Campus Management under its German name "Kreatives Schreiben" .

If you want to take only one soft skills course, it makes no difference whether you book it under the module  "Schlüsselqualifikation A" or "Schlüsselqualifikation B". However, if you would like to take two soft skills courses in the same semester, please book one course under "Schlüsselqualifikation A" and the other under "Schlüsselqualifikation B".

registration period : 1 October 2024, 9 a.m. - 11 October 2024, 12 p.m. (noon)

In order to know if you have obtained a place in this course, please check out your course plan on Campus Management (tab "Stundenplan") from 12 October 2024. As long as there are still seats available after the registration period has expired, they will be allocated according to the principle "first come, first served" if you sign up by 1 November 2024. Please be aware that law students cannot take more than two soft skills courses (module "Schlüsselqualifikation") in the course of their entire study program.

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via Campus Management regular drop period : 1 October 2024, 9 a.m. - 1 November 2024 After the regular drop period you can only drop this course with a valid cause until 14 days before it ends. Please contact the International Office at the Law Department if you have to use this option.

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This is a pass / non-pass course. There will be no exam. This is not subject to negotiation - there are no exceptions possible! For a passing grade (P for "pass" instead of 0 - 18 points), you will be required to attend the course regularly and to take part in the exercises. Before you take this course, please ask your home university whether you will be allowed to take a pass / non-pass course where no specific grade will be given.

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The filmmaker behind the Neon horror movie also explains the nonnegotiables he had for the project: "I need to shoot analog."

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Hunter schafer faces horrors at german resort in neon's 'cuckoo' trailer, 'godzilla x kong' star dan stevens talks his '80s action hero character and 'the guest 2' odds.

As of this moment, Singer is choosing to remain tight-lipped about the potential relationship between his first two features. 

“I don’t want to answer that too concretely, but it’s a good last name. I really like these Dutch frontier-sounding names. They work greatly for Europeans and Americans, so I’ll leave it at that,” Singer tells The Hollywood Reporter .

Singer may have been coming off his senior thesis film, but he still had a few nonnegotiables when setting up Cuckoo at Neon.

“The line producer tried to talk me out of [shooting on 35 mm], but it was one of my very early demands: ‘I’m bringing my production designer, sound designer, cinematographer, composer and I’m shooting on film,’” Singer shares. “And I told them, ‘We can shoot 35 or a mix [of 35 and 16]. I don’t care, but I need to shoot analog.”

But before you categorize Singer as another uncompromising artist, he’s actually more than willing to let the best idea win.

“A good indication is when I am struggling with a line or how to make a beat work on a script page,” Singer says. “So I’d go to a [Neon] executive that I like and ask, ‘Could you just give it a try?’ And then they’d write the line in a perfect way. I’d be like, ‘All right, copy-paste. That goes in the script. That’s good.’ So that’s how most of our process together felt.”

Stevens helped Singer reimagine Cuckoo ‘s antagonist role of Herr König, who was originally a 60-something-year-old German character that John Malkovich was going to portray until the pandemic upended schedules across the industry. During their initial meeting together, Singer also had to apologize to the English actor right out of the gate for overlooking a key skill of his.

“I don’t do proper research before talking to actors … When I first talked to Dan, he introduced himself and said hello in perfect German, and I almost fell off my chair,” Singer recalls. “I then immediately apologized because I shy away from digging too deep.”

Below, during a recent conversation with THR , Singer also explains how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affected Cuckoo ‘s production.

So did the idea for Cuckoo actually originate from the parasitic behavior of the cuckoo bird?

Absolutely, yeah. I watched a BBC documentary around the time that we were mixing and finishing up Luz . And this one image of host parents nurturing this cuckoo chick after their whole offspring had died just didn’t leave my brain. It just did something to me. So I came back to the idea at some point and I was like, “OK, I’m supposed to project this onto humans.”

Cuckoo certainly makes a number of points about reproductive health, but I would argue that it’s equally about the many forms of sisterhood. 

In 2021, Dan Stevens played a German-speaking robot in a German film called I’m Your Man . Is that when you realized he could convincingly play Herr König?

No, I’m an idiot. I don’t do proper research before talking to actors, and I have not seen this movie. When I first talked to Dan, he introduced himself and said hello in perfect German, and I almost fell off my chair. ( Laughs .) I then immediately apologized because I shy away from digging too deep. I knew how good he is, so I was already convinced about his acting. But then it really was about getting to know him and seeing if we speak the same language. And we did!

With the exception of Hunter Schafer, you had an entirely different cast at one point. Did the film change a great deal to account for these new actors?  

Hunter’s character, Gretchen, has the same last name as a character in Luz : Vanderkurt. Are your first two features in the same universe? Are these films connected?

Well, I don’t want to answer that too concretely, but it’s a good last name. I really like these Dutch frontier-sounding names. They work greatly for Europeans and Americans, so I’ll leave it at that.

An unsettling character known as the Hooded Woman (Kalin Morrow) hangs over Cuckoo . What was the evolution of her design?

I wanted a ghostly character that could exist in the real world. You could see her pass in the corner of your eye and not think too much of her. But, obviously, if you look closer, there’s something very off with her. I was going for a certain archaic idea of feminine beauty, and when we tried out her costume and her hair and makeup, we were going through all these different wigs. Wigs or fake hair are important for these characters, and at some point, they put a Marilyn Monroe-type wig on her head. And, together with the hood, I was like, “That’s it! That’s exactly it.” I don’t know why exactly, but it was important that it was a bygone era’s idea of feminine beauty.

How did you create the film’s pulsating effect on the day versus in post? 

Whenever a moment loops, how often was the same take used? 

That’s a very good question, and now I really have to think hard. I think it’s a different take the majority of times. The origin of the idea came from the fact that I thought it would be cool to put a different take of the same shot into a film. I’ve never seen that, or if I have seen it, it wasn’t in an exposed kind of way. We progressively did different takes of people being a little bit more distressed, a little bit sweatier, a little bit more hectic, more scared, and while we used them, there still might be the same take once or twice in the movie.

I’m a big fan of Jessica Henwick, and I’ve long believed that she should be leading her own projects. 

What pointed you in her direction?

Honestly, it was one of those very classic recommendations by the casting director and producers. So I looked at her and the things she’s done, and as you said, she’s amazing. So I was really, really happy that she came on board for a small role.

You’re credited as writing some of the music in the film including “Gretchen’s Song,” which contains a bass line that recurs a number of times. 

I’m so happy you noticed that!

What’s the backstory there? 

And then I looked at the rest of my list and was like, “Oh shit, the rest will not work either. There’s Suicide, The Velvet Underground. None of this will work.” So I asked our composer, Simon Waskow, “Can you write me a song that Gretchen wrote in the style of The Jesus and Mary Chain? And can you use that little spaghetti Western melody?” I had previously written a lead guitar melody for a little Western that we shot on a soundstage for a student project, and Simon, back then, turned this melody into a score for this short film. So he did all that [for Cuckoo ], and that was maybe what led to Gretchen now having a band and being a singer. We were like, “Well, maybe Hunter can sing this.” And, sure enough, she was up for it, so we recorded it.

Most filmmakers in the States have to put up a fight to shoot on 35 mm. Is that the case overseas as well?

Usually, yeah. I think you do [have to put up a fight]. The line producer tried to talk me out of it, but it was one of my very early demands: “I’m bringing my production designer, sound designer, cinematographer, composer, and I’m shooting on film.” And I told them, “I don’t care. We can shoot 16 mm. Wide shots will be blurry, or we can shoot 35 or a mix [of the two]. I don’t care, but I need to shoot analog.”

Neon and A24 are currently the premier destinations for indie horror. Has Neon been as great as advertised? 

We had this back and forth about the script that I was really happy with, and a good indication is when I am struggling with a line or how to make a beat work on a script page. So I’d go to an executive that I like and ask, “Could you just give it a try?” And then they’d write the line in a perfect way. I’d be like, “All right, copy-paste. That goes in the script. That’s good.” So that’s how most of our process together felt.

It’s about shaping the vision together. A lot of times, I don’t see the forest for the trees. But, sometimes, I know best because I feel something that’s just not there yet. I can see it because I feel it, but nobody else can see it yet. So, sometimes, I need somebody to help me focus on the most important parts, and they were very great at pointing out this beat or that storyline: “This is what we’re getting or not getting.”

Every filmmaker has to compromise along the way. Is there one such compromise that worked out for the best?

We then had to relocate a big chunk of that to the shooting grounds of this huge village that the British Air Force [RAF] abandoned 15 years ago at the Belgium border in Germany. So that was honestly a great thing because we had our base camp there. We could hop between locations, but it also brought a lot in terms of vibes and atmosphere. These buildings were falling apart. They were dilapidated, and sometimes, it was good patina that we could use. But, most of the time, we really had to arrange our filming around the parts of the buildings that weren’t too in ruins or unsafe to go into and shoot.

This also speaks to having to recast. When that happens, of course you’re bummed out. You set your mind on somebody, you imagine the character, you work toward it, and then you have to redirect your thoughts. But I wouldn’t want to miss out on our absolutely amazing cast; I’m so grateful for what they did. This is all just filmmaking in a nutshell. When you come up with an idea, it has to fight reality, and then the movie is what that fight leaves.

Do you have a sense of what you might make next?

*** Cuckoo opens in movie theaters on Aug. 9 . 

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