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The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

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. In the 2019 ''

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'', the university was awarded 194th place in the world. It was originally founded in 1654 and re-established on 1 January 2003, as a merger of the

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Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in Nor ...

and the university of

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

. It is based in both the cities of

and

, and a part of University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr. With its 12 departments and around 40,000 students, the University of Duisburg-Essen is among the 10 largest German universities. Since 2014, research income has risen by 150 percent. Natural science and engineering are ranked within the top 10 in Germany, and the humanities are within the top 20 to 30. Especially, the physics field is ranked in the top 1 in Germany.

History

Origins: University of Duisburg (1555)

The university's origins date back to the 1555 decision of

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''Wilhelm V von Jülich-Kleve-Berg'', to create a university for the unified duchies at the

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. To this end, it was necessary to obtain a permission of the

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and the

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. Although the permission of the pope was granted in 1564 and of the emperor in 1566, the university was founded about ninety years later in 1654, after the acquisition of the

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by Frederick William,

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. It opened on 14 October 1655 by Johannes Claudberg as their first rector. The university had four faculties:

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and

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. During its period of activity it was one of the central and leading universities of the western provinces of

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. Only a few decades later the university was in competition with the much better equipped Dutch universities. Since only about one third of the population in the western provinces of Prussia were member of

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, most

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and

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citizens in the second half of the 18th century sent their sons to other universities. The university declined rapidly and was closed on 18 October 1818, due to a Cabinet Order of Friedrich Wilhelm III. At the same time, the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

was founded. Large parts of the Duisburg University Library were relocated to

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and formed the basis of the newly formed ''Bonn Library''. The

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of the University of Duisburg was given to the University of Bonn, where it is still located today. In 1891, the ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Hüttenschule'' was relocated from

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to Duisburg. Subsequently, the school was transformed into the ''Königlich-Preußischen Maschinenbau- und Hüttenschule'', and in 1938 was renamed to ''Public School of Engineering''. After a decision of the federal state government in 1960, the teacher training college of

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was settled to Duisburg and was named ''Pedagogical University Ruhr''. In 1968, the university was founded again in Duisburg, related to the old one, bearing the name: ''Comprehensive University of Duisburg.'' Initially only small, the university was developed rapidly in the 1970s up to about 15,000 students. In 1972 the ''Pedagogical University Ruhr'' and the ''Public School of Engineering'', which was renamed in 1971 to University of applied sciences Duisburg. Other schools were also relocated to Duisburg. The University of Duisburg was then called ''Comprehensive University of Duisburg''. In 1994 the university was renamed Gerhard Mercator University. In 2003, Gerhard Mercator University merged with the University of Essen to form the University of Duisburg-Essen, which is today one of the largest universities in Germany with about 40,000 students.

Recent developments

In March 2007 the three universities of

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and Duisburg-Essen founded the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr, which now includes more than 120,00 students and 1,300 professors and is modelled after the

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system. In May 2018, the three members of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr launched the Research Academy Ruhr (RAR), an inter- and university overarching program for the development and support of young scientists. The program is funded by the State of North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW) and the Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR) with €800,000 over the next four years and an additional €1 million being added by the three participating members of the University Alliance.

Campus

The university has two main campus locations in Duisburg and Essen.

Faculties and Institutes

Main faculties

The University of Duisburg-Essen today has twelve faculties, listed below: * Faculty of

Art and Design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

* Faculty of

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

and

Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...

* Faculty of

Business Administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

and Economics ** Mercator School of Management – Faculty of Business Administration * Faculty of

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

* Faculty of Engineering ** Department of

Building science Building science is the science and technology-driven collection of knowledge in order to provide better indoor environmental quality (IEQ), energy-efficient built environments, and occupant comfort and satisfaction. ''Building physics, architec ...

s ** Department of

Electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and

Information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

** Department of

Computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

s and Applied Cognitive Sciences ** Department of

Mechanical Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of ...

and

Process engineering Process engineering is the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature that allow humans to transform raw material and energy into products that are useful to society, at an industrial level. By taking advantage ...

** Department of Transport Systems and Logistics ** International Studies in Engineering * Faculty of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

* Faculty of

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

* Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Essen * Faculty of

Social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

s ** Institute for Political Sciences ***

NRW School of Governance The NRW School of Governance is a central institution within the '' Institute for Political science'' at the University Duisburg-Essen and was founded in 2006 under the direction of Karl-Rudolf Korte. It aims, through research and teaching, to ...

** Institute for

Educational sciences Education sciences or education theory (traditionally often called ''pedagogy'') seek to describe, understand, and prescribe education policy and practice. Education sciences include many topics, such as pedagogy, andragogy, curriculum, learning, ...

** Institute for Development and Peace (INEF – Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden) ** Institute for Sociology * Faculty of

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

Central scientific institutes

* Centre for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE) (

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) * German-French Institute for Automation and Robotics (IAR) * Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging * Essen College of Gender Studies (EKfG) *

Institute for Experimental Mathematics The Institute for Experimental Mathematics (IEM) was founded, with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation, as a central scientific facility of the former University of Essen, now University of Duisburg-Essen in 1989. With the addition of the Al ...

(IEM) * Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities * Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) * Institute for Labor/ Labour and Qualification (IAQ) * Interdisciplinary center for analytics on the nanoscale (ICAN) * Centre for Logistics and Transport (ZLV) * Centre for Medical Biotechnology (ZMB) * Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZMU) * Centre for empirical research in education (ZeB)

The NRW School of Governance

The

is a central institution within the Institute for

Political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and was founded in 2006 under the direction of Karl-Rudolf Korte. It aims, through research and teaching, to promote the scientifically sound understanding of political processes (in

). It does so by educating and training students in three main programs: # Masters program: "

Political management Political management is a broad and ever evolving field encompassing a number of activities in professional politics. The field includes campaign management and consulting, advertisement creation/purchasing, grassroots politics, opposition ...

Public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public p ...

and

Public administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit establ ...

" # Part-time masters program: "Public Policy" # Doctoral School: Scholarship and Excellence Programs at the Department of Political Science and also through the use of various other education modules.

Associated institutes

* paluno, The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology * German Textile Research Centre North-west (DTNW) * Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems (DST) * Asia-Pacific Economic Research Institute (FIP) * Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology (IUTA) * Institute for Labor/ Labour and Qualification (IAQ) * Institute of Mobile and Satellite Communication Technology (IMST) * Institute for Prevention and Health Promotion (IPG) * Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE) * IWW Water Centre (IWW) * Rhine-Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Political Consulting (RISP) * Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History (StI) * Centre for Fuel Cell Technology (ZBT) The university has a

Confucius Institute Confucius Institutes (CI; ) are public educational and cultural promotion programs funded and arranged currently by the , a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic o ...

Student body

it is the German university with the largest number of Chinese international students. Overall, it has a 16% composition of international students. The majority of such students are enrolled as engineering or economics majors.

People

Rectors

* 01.2003–09.2003 – Heiner Kleffner, Founding commissioner and head of section * 10.2003–12.2006 – Lothar Zechlin, Founding rector * 01.2007–03.2008 – Lothar Zechlin, 1. rector * 04.2008–03.2022 – Ulrich Radtke, 2. rector * 04.2022 –

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Mercator-Professorship Award

The University of Duisburg-Essen awards the ''Mercator-Professur'' to individuals who are well known for their social and scientific engagement. So far, recipients of the ''Mercator-Professur'' have been: * 1997:

Hans-Dietrich Genscher Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affa ...

, politician ( FDP), former Foreign Minister and

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* 1998:

Siegfried Lenz Siegfried Lenz (; 17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's bi ...

, writer * 1999:

Jan Philipp Reemtsma Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (born 26 November 1952) is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg. Biog ...

, literary scholar. * 2000:

Jutta Limbach Jutta Limbach (27 March 1934 – 10 September 2016) was a German jurist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and served as President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, th ...

, jurist and politician (

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) * 2001:

Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff (; born 31 March 1939 Friday) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...

, filmmaker. * 2002:

Ulrich Wickert Ulrich Wickert (born 2 December 1942) is a German journalist. He is one of the best-known broadcasters in Germany. Early life Born in Tokyo, Japan, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris as a result of his father Erwin Wickert being employed ...

, journalist, chief anchor for

tagesthemen ''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 '' Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most ...

* 2003: Daniel Goeudevert French writer, management consultant. * 2004:

Walter Kempowski Walter Kempowski (; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called ''German Chronicle'' ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental ''Echolot'' ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical repo ...

, writer. * 2005:

Richard von Weizsäcker Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician ( CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobilit ...

, politician ( CDU), former

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. * 2006:

Necla Kelek Necla Kelek (pronounced ; born December 31, 1957) is a Turkish-born German feminist and social scientist, holding a doctorate in this field, originally from Turkey. She gave lectures on migration sociology at the ''Evangelische Fachhochschule f� ...

, social scientist * 2007:

Hanan Ashrawi Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi ( ar, حنان داوود مخايل عشراوي ; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson ...

, legislator, activist, and scholar * 2008:

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences. Nü ...

, biologist, winner of the

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* 2009:

Peter Scholl-Latour Peter Roman Scholl-Latour (9 March 1924 – 16 August 2014) was a French-German journalist, author and legendary reporter. Biography Peter Scholl-Latour, who was born in the Province of Westphalia and grew up in Lorraine, was the son of dermat ...

, journalist and publicist * 2010:

Alice Schwarzer Alice Sophie Schwarzer (born 3 December 1942) is a German journalist and prominent feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal '' EMMA''. Beginning in France, she became a forerunner of feminist positions against anti- ...

, publisher and feminist * 2011:

Udo Di Fabio Udo Di Fabio (born 26 March 1954, in Duisburg) is a German jurist. He is a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Germany's highest court, where he served as a member of the Second Senate from December 1999 until December ...

, former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court * 2012:

Wolfgang Huber Wolfgang Huber (born 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg, Germany) is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Man ...

, Bishop, former Chairman of the Council of the EKD * 2013:

Margarethe von Trotta Margarethe von Trotta (; born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement.

, film director. * 2015: Götz Werner, founder of

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* 2016:

Karl Lehmann Karl Lehmann (16 May 1936 – 11 March 2018) was a German Cardinal prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to Cardinal in 2001. He also served as Chairman of the Conference of the Germa ...

, Cardinal prelate, former Chairman of the

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Further professors include Jette Joop,

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and

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Poets in Residence

The institution of the poet in residence is not missing at any university in the USA. In Germany, the University of Duisburg-Essen was the first and, for a long time, only university that followed the American example and brought contemporary authors to the university as guest lecturers for readings and seminars. In 1975, Martin Walser was the first poet in residence to hold his poetics lectures in Essen. Since the summer semester 2000, the following personalities have worked as poet in residence at the University of Essen (later Duisburg-Essen): * Ss 2000:

Emine Sevgi Özdamar Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946) is a writer, director, and actress of Turkish origin who resides in Germany and has resided there for many years. Özdamar's art is unique in that it is influenced by her life experiences, which straddl ...

* Ws 2000/01: Kirsten Boie * Ss 2001:

Volker Braun Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include ''Provokation für mich'' (''Provocation for me'') – a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, ''Die Kipper'' (''The Dumpers ...

* Ws 2001/02:

Robert Gernhardt Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet. Life Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. In ...

* Ss 2002:

Mike Nicol Mike Nicol is a South African writer and journalist. He was born in 1951 in Cape Town. Biography After completing his studies in Johannesburg, he worked as a journalist for the ''Leadership'' magazine. In 1978, he published ''Among the Souvenir ...

* Ss 2003:

Friedrich Christian Delius Friedrich Christian Delius (13 February 1943 – 30 May 2022), also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were tr ...

* Ws 2003/04: Brigitte Burmeister * Ss 2004: Georg Klein * Ws 2004/05:

Andreas Steinhöfel Andreas Steinhöfel (; born 14 January 1962) is a German author for children and young adult books, and a translator. Biography Andreas Steinhöfel grew up with two brothers in the Middle Hesse small town Biedenkopf, and did his GCE Advanced ...

* Ss 2005: Yōko Tawada * Ws 2005/06: Dagmar Leupold * Ss 2006: Friedrich Ani * Ws 2006/07:

Hans-Ulrich Treichel Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel (born 12 August 1952) is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success ...

* Ss 2007:

Terézia Mora Terézia Mora (; born 5 February 1971) is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator. Early life and education Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany after th ...

* Ws 2007/08: Zafer Şenocak * Ss 2008: Jürgen Lodemann * Ws 2009/10: Klaus Händl * Ws 2010/11: Judith Kuckart * Ss 2011:

Norbert Hummelt Norbert Hummelt (born 30 December 1962 in Neuss) is a German poet, essayist and translator."No ...

* Ws 2011/12:

Norbert Scheuer Norbert Scheuer (born December 16, 1951 in Prüm, Westeifel, Rheinland-Palatinate) is a German author. He earns a living as an IT system programmer for Deutsche Telekom and now lives in Keldenich, Kall, North Rhine-Westphalia in the area where ...

* Ss 2012:

Guy Helminger Guy Helminger (born 1963) is a Luxembourgish author who has written a number of successful novels and plays in German. Biography Guy Helminger, the younger brother of author Nico Helminger, was born on 20 January 1963 in Esch-sur-Alzette in so ...

* Ws 2012/13:

Reinhard Jirgl Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer. Biography Jirgl was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain. He became a skilled worker for electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in electronics at Humboldt University, Berli ...

* Ss 2013: Antje Rávic Strubel * Ws 2013/14: Bernhard Jaumann * Ws 2014/15:

Kathrin Röggla Kathrin Röggla (born 1971) is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg, and lives in Berlin since 1992. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, dramas and radio plays. She has won a long range of award ...

* Ss 2015:

Marion Poschmann Marion Poschmann (born 15 December 1969 in Essen) is a German author, novelist, and poet. Life Marion Poschmann grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen. From 1989 to 1995 she studied German, philosophy, and Slavic studies in Bonn and Berlin. ...

* Ws 2016/16:

Klaus Modick Klaus Modick (born 3 May 1951) is a German author and literary translator. Education and early career Klaus Modick was born in Oldenburg and completed his secondary education at the Altes Gymnasium there in 1971. He then attended Hamburg Univ ...

* Ss 2016:

Lukas Bärfuss Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019. Biography Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating f ...

* Ws 2016/17:

Dorothee Elmiger Dorothee Elmiger (born 1985 in Wetzikon) is a Swiss writer. She presently lives in Switzerland. Elmiger is considered one of the most promising young Swiss writers, especially after winning the second Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Kelag Prize, ...

, Reto Hänny * Ss 2017: Christof Hamann Earlier poets in residence (since the winter semester 1975/76) include

Jurek Becker Jurek Becker (, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is '' Jacob the Liar'', which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during W ...

Wilhelm Genazino Wilhelm Genazino (22 January 1943 – 12 December 2018) was a German journalist and author. He worked first as a journalist for the satirical magazine '' pardon'' and for ''Lesezeichen''. From the early 1970s, he was a freelance writer who became ...

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

Günter Herburger Günter Herburger (April 6, 1932 – May 3, 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German ...

Rolf Hochhuth Rolf Hochhuth (; 1 April 1931 – 13 May 2020) was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama ''The Deputy'', which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial ...

Heinar Kipphardt Heinar Kipphardt (8 March 1922 - 18 November 1982) was a German writer. He came to prominence with the documentary theatre during the 1960s. He is best known for '' In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer'', a dramatization of the Oppenheimer securi ...

Cees Nooteboom Cees Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel ''Rituelen'' (''Rituals'', 1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an ...

Peter Rühmkorf Peter Rühmkorf (25 October 1929 – 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature. Rühmkorf's literary career started in 1952 in Hamburg with the magazine ''Zwischen den Kriegen'' ("Between the Wars"), ...

Martin Walser Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. Life Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the e ...

and .

Academics

International cooperation

Erasmus program

The university is part of the

ERASMUS Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...

exchange program.

International university cooperations

The university also cooperates with several other international institutions of higher education.

= University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)'s main partner universities

= University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)'s faculty partner institutions

= Besides the main partnering universities, various faculty of the University Essen-Duisburg also cooperate with international universities and specific faculties or programmes (click "show" to expand).

University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr

As part of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr network the university is involved in running three liaison offices in Moscow, New York City and

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. The offices aim to foster international academic exchange between the local and Ruhr area and are responsible for their respective continents.

International network

The university is also part of the AURORA Network of European universities.

Further cooperation programmes

The university is part of the IS:link (Information Systems Student Exchange Network), the VDAC (Verband der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Clubs / Federation of German-American Clubs e.V.) and offers the internationally oriented, doctoral programme "ARUS – Advanced Research in Urban Systems", which is based on previous academic achievements in selected fields within the Joint Centre "Urban Systems".

Rankings

Source: In Germany, there is no comprehensive university ranking because of the standardization of the universities in Germany, sharply contrasting to the university system in USA and UK. However, the institute for evaluation of universities in Germany has reported the ranking of the departments annually. In this ranking, University of Duisburg-Essen is ranked in a high position in the science and engineering field. Especially, the department of physics is ranked as the top 1 university in Germany. Measured by the number of top managers in the German economy, University of Duisburg-Essen ranked 15th in 2019. Considering their rankings in the ''

'' citation index from 2019, the University of Duisburg-Essen ranks fifth in Germany, behind Heidelberg, the Berlin Charité, Ulm and Hohenheim, thus displaying its particular scientific success and high productivity. In an international comparison of the universities most frequently cited in scientific publications, the University of Duisburg-Essen is in 103rd place. Overall, the University of Duisburg-Essen has steadily improved its position in the ''

'', making it one of the 200 best universities in the world. In the '' Times Higher Education Young University Ranking'', it is ranked 14th worldwide in 2019. In May 2018 the Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE – Center for Higher Education Development) rankings placed the university in the top ranks in different categories and fields, like the Physics department for seminar and lecture content and Biology, Computer Science, Math, Medicine and Sports for excellent programs and support in the early stages of starting at Essen-Duisburg. In the European Commission funded U-Multirank system the university as a whole was ranked as "excellent" in the research categories "External research income", "Top cited publications", "Post-doc positions", in the knowledge transfer categories "Income from private sources", "Spin-offs" and "Publications cited in patents". In the category international orientation Essen-Duisburg was rated "excellent" for their "International academic staff".

Notable people

Alumni

Notable alumni of the university include: *

Gorden Wagener Gorden Wagener (born September 3, 1968, in Essen) is a German car designer, and is the chief design officer for Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Career Wagener studied Industrial Design at the University of Duisburg-Essen (1990–1993), after which he sp ...

, German car designer, and is the chief design officer for Daimler AG * Cornelius Boersch, serial entrepreneur and business angel * Osagie Ehanire, Nigerian medical doctor and politician *

Peter Bialobrzeski Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961 in Wolfsburg, West Germany) is a photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany. Bialobrzeski originally studied politics and sociology in Germany before he studied photogr ...

, photographer and a professor of photography * Rainer Blasczyk, physician for transfusion medicine *

Bärbel Höhn Bärbel Höhn (born 4 May 1952) is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 national elections, after serving as State Minister of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005. Earl ...

, German politician * Moritz Körner, German politician *

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his Large format (photography), large format architecture and Landscape photography, landscape colour photogr ...

artist and photographer *

Ina Hartwig Ina Hartwig (born 11 July 1963) is a German writer, literature critic and academic lecturer. From July 2016, she has been ''Kulturdezernentin'' in Frankfurt, the city councillor responsible for culture and science. Early life and education Har ...

, German writer, literature critic and academic lecturer * Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg, German chemist * Petra Kammerevert, German politician * Suzie Kerstgens, German singer *

Dieter Nuhr Dieter Herbert Nuhr (born 29 October 1960) is a German kabarett artist, comedian, author and television presenter. Nuhr's stage program ''nuhr in Berlin'' (the title is a pun; for explanation, see below) is the first German stand-up comedy whic ...

, German cabaret artist *

Hannelore Kraft Hannelore Kraft (''née'' Külzhammer; born 12 June 1961) is a German politician. She served as the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 until 2017. Kraft was the first woman to serve as head of government of this state and was ...

, German politician and Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW) * Frank T. Rothaermel,

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academic

Points of interest

* Botanischer Garten der Universität Duisburg-Essen, the university's

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References

External links

Official website of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Official website of the University of Duisburg-Essen

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University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

Universities and colleges in North Rhine-Westphalia Educational institutions established in the 1640s 1818 disestablishments Educational institutions established in 2003 1654 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Universities and colleges formed by merger in Germany 2003 establishments in Germany

History

Origins: University of Duisburg (1555)

Recent developments

Campus

Faculties and Institutes

Main faculties

Central scientific institutes

The NRW School of Governance

Associated institutes

Student body

People

Rectors

Mercator-Professorship Award

Poets in Residence

Academics

International cooperation

Erasmus program

International university cooperations

= University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)'s main partner universities

= University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)'s faculty partner institutions

University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr

International network

Further cooperation programmes

Rankings

Notable people

Alumni

Points of interest

See also

References

Further reading

External links