Media connect and overcome distances, media store and transfer, media represent, duplicate and sometimes distort reality, media transmit signs, information, images and - in the case of transportation media - goods or people. Media distribute power and make us powerless, media shape our perception and our feelings, they 'format' our brains, control our desires and yet they are also media of consciousness, knowledge and enlightenment. As conditions of possibility for human existence, media thus create the worlds in which we live and in which we learn, in which we act communicatively and which often become virtual counter - or otherwords that leave empiricism behind.

As a result, the Department of Romance Studies organized a teaching focus in the academic year of 2022/23 under the title Medienwelt Romania, which students, lecturers and all interested parties were invited. In an interdisciplinary lecture series and in numerous courses from all Romance studies subjects (linguistics, didactics, cultural studies, literary studies, language training), dia- and synchronic media effects in oral or written communication were discussed as well as the consequences of historical media upheavals, the staging of sophisticated media couplings and the exploration of media-supported teaching settings and their associated skills.

Numerous students took the opportunity to create thematic 'synergies' between the attended courses, worked in interactive and production-oriented educational formats on the teaching focus and presented their highly creative results to a large audience at a final event (end of May 2023): From scientifically instructive posters and literary texts to theatrical performances and video clips - the Medienwelt Romania was made visible, audible and understandable in a multimedia and multimodal way on this evening.

Here you can find the program of this focus.