After the traditional semester opening program, most of the courses have now started on site in Bonn. The Protestant Theological Seminary is unusually busy compared to the last two years – and sometimes you can even hear guitar music coming from one of the two seminar rooms! New professors' inaugural lectures can take place in the university's Festsaal, the faculty council is meeting again with drinks and canapés, and departments are realising long-planned team pictures for the website.
Of course, the pandemic is neither entirely over nor forgotten, so masks continue to be worn in the corridors and at larger meetings. Nevertheless, the faculty is looking forward to a semester with old and new students and teachers as well as national and international researchers in Bonn!