18 Full-time Master's in Literature in Germany

English Studies - Literature, Language, Culture from Freie Universität Berlin moves beyond the traditional disciplinary segregation within English studies and seeks to combine literature, linguistics, and cultural studies of the English-speaking world except North America. 

The focus of the National and Transnational Studies - Literature, Culture, Language from University of Münster is on anglophone literatures and cultures and on varieties of English, students will mainly be based in the English Department. 

If you love literature, this English Literatures and Literary Theory programme from University of Freiburg is the ideal course for you. You will get to read a large number of exciting novels, short stories, plays, poems, essays and letters besides looking at films and seeing performances of great drama on stage or on DVD. 

English - Language, Literatures and Cultures from University of Göttingen opens the door to deepening your knowledge in English and American literature, English linguistics and the history of the English language. Improve your English skills to suit your needs. Take challenging classes on a variety of topics, and follow your own research interests to lay the foundation for a Ph.D.

The degree programme in Transcultural Studies. Literature and Language Contact Within the Francophone Area at Heidelberg University entails analysis of the literary, linguistic and cultural phenomena which have arisen as a result of contact across territorial, ethnic, political and religious boundaries within the francophone linguistic and cultural area. 

The English Literatures and Cultures program at University of Bonn covers the literatures and cultures of Great Britain and the post-colonial world.

North American Studies from Philip University in Marburg deals with the complex literatures and cultures of North America, especially the USA and Canada, but also the Caribbean and Latin America, and performs interdisciplinary teaching and research.

European Master in Lexicography (EMLex) from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)  is an international Master’s degree programme (120 ECTS) that has been offered since 2009. Since 2016 the EMLex can be concluded with an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.  

This English Literature and Culture course offered by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers a program oriented to literature and cultural studies, which teaches advanced knowledge of the diverse manifestations of British society in literary, historical, political and cultural contexts. 

The Literature programme from University of Konstanz offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary philological modules concerning general literary studies with modules focusing on specialist philological subjects.

At North American Studies - Culture and Literature from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) students learn how to contextualize and evaluate US American, Canadian and Caribbean cultural phenomena, media products, and literary writing  from the colonial period to the present day. 

This Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture MA course at the University of Potsdam offers insights into Anglophone literatures and cultures worldwide. Apart from providing European and American perspectives, the program also includes an analysis of African, Asian, and Australian phenomena of literary and cultural modernity.  

This English Literatures and Cultures program from University of Tübingen delves into the rich tradition of English literature in Great Britain, as well as the newer literatures that have emerged in English across the globe. 

The program in English Studies: Literature, Language, Culture from Freie Universität Berlin focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Anglophone world (with the exception of North America), in the past and the present.

The subject Comparative Studies in English and American Language, Literature and Culture is a Master's program at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf that builds on a relevant Bachelor's program in the field of English and American Studies and ideally complements it.

In this degree programme, students deepen their subject knowledge and improve their practical language skills.

Chinese Studies from University of Würzburg has been developed for graduates of B.A. programs in the Chinese Studies field (holding a B.A. in Sinology, Chinese Studies or equivalent qualification). It offers in-depth and small-group instruction in Chinese Studies by recognized experts in various fields. 

The aim of the study programme Anglophone Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen is to impart advanced linguistic, literary and cultural knowledge and specific didactic knowledge and skills as well as comprehensive skills in the field of academic methodology in the subjects studied.