Brechtbau

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The Brechtbau, Wilhelmstrasse 50

The Brechtbau (Wilhelmstraße 50) of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen houses the Department of New Philology . It is the central training center for all modern language courses, linguistics and formerly media studies and rhetoric.

building

After its construction in 1974, the building was quickly renamed "Brechtbau". On the ground floor there is a cafeteria and the large lecture halls. The concrete building is located on the central Wilhelmstrasse, within walking distance of the cafeteria and the new auditorium .

The new philology department is now part of the philosophy faculty.

Home seminars

The following seminars are housed in the Brechtbau:

  • Department of New Philology:
    • German language and literature (with department for international literatures and department for Scandinavian studies)
    • English language and literature including American studies
    • Romance languages ​​and literatures
    • Slavic languages ​​and literatures
  • Department of Philosophy-Rhetoric-Media
    • General Rhetoric Seminar
    • Institute for Media Studies
  • Department of Religious Studies

From 1971 to 2010 the Faculty of Modern Philology together with the Seminar for General Rhetoric formed the Faculty of New Philology.

Further facilities in the Brechtbau

In addition to the seminars, the Brechtbau also houses other university facilities:

  • the center for media literacy (media department)
  • the Brechtbau's own library
  • the Brechtbautheater
  • the university radio and campus TV Tübingen
  • Cafeteria of the Studierendenwerk Tübingen-Hohenheim

Student organization at the Brechtbau

Around a fifth of all students in Tübingen study on or with connections to the Brechtbau.

The students are represented internally and externally in the committees of academic and student self-administration, among other things, by student councils. These appear both as individual faculties and together in the so-called Brechtbauplenum. This bundles the work of the student councils of all new philological subjects (American studies, English studies, German studies, international literatures, Romance studies, Scandinavian studies, Slavic studies and linguistics) and facilitates cooperation. In addition, the student councils for media studies, rhetoric and Indology also use the student council rooms in the Brechtbau.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brechtbau - TUEpedia. In: www.tuepedia.de. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ University of Tübingen - Neuphilologikum. In: www.uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Neuphilology - Neuphilology. In: www.uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  4. ^ List of student councils at the Brechtbau. In: brechtbau.de. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '37.2 "  N , 9 ° 3' 48.1"  E