reflection skills of students. Specifically, the question is how tasks and learning settings in the field of literary writing - under the auspices of a writing and reading culture shaped by artificial intelligence - can be designed to promote literary-creative design and judgment skills. For Daniela Matz, the practical relevance and transferability of her research plays a major role. After more than 16 years as a secondary school teacher of German and philosophy and her doctorate entitled "Interpretation concepts of German teachers and their pupils", which she completed parallel to her work as a teacher, she is ideally placed to link her academic work with practical issues.

About the project and the associated sub-projects:
Literary writing with artificial intelligence: New dimensions of literary-aesthetic education in secondary school German lessons

Contact:
University of Tübingen
German Seminar
Chair of German Philology / Didactics of German Literature
@ daniela.matz@uni-tuebingen.de

Project-related publications:
* with peer review

Articles in journals and anthologies

Matz, Daniela & Führer, Carolin: Research on Writing Processes in the Context of AI: Methodological Approaches Using the Example of Creative and Literary Writing. In: T. Steinhoff/ K. Lehnen (Eds.): Writing with AI. Literarcies – Practices – Pedagogies. Didaktik Deutsch. International Special Issue. [accepted]

Matz, Daniela: Encountering Artificial Intelligence with Creativity. On the Importance of Creativity as a Transitory Norm for Literature Teaching. In: Florian Hesse/ Larissa Carolin Jagdschian (Eds.): Literature // Artificial Intelligence // Didactics. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.13634.24003. [Preprint].

Matz, Daniela: AI writes poetry!? On the evaluation of AI-generated poems by students. In: Anna R. Hoffmann/ Jennifer Witte (eds.): "Values, Valuing, and Teaching Values in Literature Didactics. [forthcoming]

Matz, Daniela/ Abraham, Ulf: Evaluating creative and literary writing. In: Inger Petersen/Raja Reble/Jörg Kilian (eds.): Writing texts in all school subjects. Text assessment as a basis for promoting writing and performance evaluation. Münster: Waxmann 2024, pp. 199-219.*

Matz, Daniela: Literary writing in learning groups with heterogeneous learning backgrounds. In: Abraham, Ulf/Bräuer, Christoph/von Brand, Tilman (eds.): Literary Writing as Cultural Practice. German Didactics, Writing Pedagogy, and Media Culture Impulses for Teaching. Hanover: Klett/Kallmeyer 2023, pp. 174–186.

Practical contributions

Matz, Daniela with Führer, Carolin: Poetic Algorithms? Reflecting on Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. In: Florian Hesse/ Gerrit Helm (eds.): Artificial Intelligence in German Language Teaching Beyond Text Production. (SLLD-U special issue)* DOI:https://doi.org/10.46586/SLLD.442.

Matz, Daniela with Fürstenberg, Maurice: Artificial Intelligence as a Discussion Partner? Material-based Argumentation and Reflection on AI. In: Praxis Deutsch 311.2 (2025), pp. 23–30.

Matz, Daniela: How I became what I am. Real people – fictional stories. In: Deutsch 5-10: Fanfiction 79, 2/2024, pp. 8–12 (Reprinted in: Teaching outside your field. In : Schulmagazin 5-10. Impulse für kreativen Unterricht 5 (2025), pp. 10–19.

Matz, Daniela: Improvising – writing – playing. Developing your own adaptations of the popular Romeo and Juliet story.In: Praxis Deutsch 293 (2022), pp. 39–47.

Matz, Daniela with Abraham, Ulf: Improving drafts through criticism. Literary writing and revision as a joint task.In: Praxis Deutsch 279 (2020), pp. 21–27.

Poster presentations, lectures and panel discussions

01/2026 Challenges of theory formation in the paradigm of grounded theory. Methodological discussions using the example of the sound thinking study LiSKIDS (Digital lecture series "Young empirical research in literary didactics", WS 25/26, University of Siegen)

past lectures:

10/2025 Writing stories, assessing texts: Task formats, conversational practices, and criteria for text assessment in literary writing (Symposium "Literatur- und mediendidaktische Profilierung von Schreibaufgaben", AQUA-d Conference, Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe)

09/25 Panel presentation at the 28th Germanists' Conference, together with Maurice Fürstenberg: "Vom Dialog zum Trilog? Interdisciplinary perspectives on conversations with artificial intelligence"

09/25 - Conversations with people and machines in literary writing settings. On the promotion of a literary-aesthetic reading attitude [working title]
(28th Germanists' Conference, panel "From dialog to trialogue? Interdisciplinary perspectives on conversations with artificial intelligence", chaired by: Daniela Matz, Maurice Fürstenberg)

03/2025 Poster presentation of LiSKIDS01: Literary evaluations of students at the end of lower secondary level in literary writing processes with and without artificial intelligence
Conference of the Media Working Group on the topic: "DU trifft KI. Implications of artificial intelligence for language, literature and media didactics in German"

09/24 - On the evaluation of AI-generated poems by female pupils (KIdichtet!?)
(SDD 24, section "Values and the teaching of values as a cross-sectional task in German lessons", chaired by Anna R. Hoffmann, Jennifer Witte)

09/24 - On the relativity and normativity of the concept of creativity in German didactics and its related disciplines using the example of creative writing
(SDD 24, Panel "Normativity and Relativity in German Didactics and Teaching", Chair: Philipp Marzusch, Dominik Balg, Carolin Führer)

07/23 - Literary writing based on Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck". Insights into an AI-supported writing project in German lessons at the upper secondary school level
(Conference "DeutschGPT - Deutschunterricht in Zeiten von Chatbots und KI" at the LMU Munich) To the Book of Abstracts