Tag: Erlangen
Erlangen: The Rudolf Wöhrl lecture hall is renamed – Bavaria
Lukas Eitel is studying in Erlangen, looking back and it is inexplicable to him that the Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) there named a lecture hall after the entrepreneur Rudolf Wöhrl. According…
Free State buys space for University of Erlangen – Bavaria
The Free State of Bavaria is making progress in funding cutting-edge research. The location development at the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen is progressing with the purchase of 105,000 square meters of…
Erlangen Good News: No danger of falling rocks at the Christmas market – Bavaria
The contemplative time is now beginning and it is only fair to sharpen our eyes to what is beautiful and good. A Christmas market will be able to take place…
Regensburg and Erlangen: climate activists occupy lecture halls at universities – Bavaria
At the Universities of Regensburg and Erlangen, students each occupied a lecture hall. According to their own statements, they are joining global protests in order to stand up for effective…
First Nazi University: Erlangen and the "devilish idyll"
The “first National Socialist university in the Reich” was established in Franconia. Why the Nazi ideology spread so quickly in the Friedrich Alexander University of all places – and how…
Erlangen Poets Festival: War, Pandemic and Diversity – Culture
It’s the same as it used to be, but nothing is the same as it used to be. After two years of moving to some very pretty backyards due to…
Erlangen: Birgit Weyhe receives the Max and Moritz Prize – Munich
Birgit Weyhe was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize in Erlangen as the best German-language comic artist. The Munich-born illustrator and author receives the award, which is endowed with 7,500…
Erlangen: The career of the MEPs Herzberger-Fofana – Bavaria
As a black woman, the Erlangen Green Party politician Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was often the first: at the university, on the city council, in the EU Parliament. About someone who never…
Erlangen: 22-year-old falls from the university building and dies – Bavaria
When trying to climb an empty university building, a 22-year-old woman in Central Franconia fell and later died. The young woman and six acquaintances apparently wanted to climb onto the…
Erlangen professor sues against confiscation of research material – Bavaria
Anyone who wants to initiate a research project on Islamist radicalization in prison naturally needs suitable test subjects. Not an easy task, as you can imagine – and so a…