Bielefeld University is an excellent place - not only for your studies but also for your leisure time and for the breaks in between lectures. Whatever you are interested in, be it sports, music, the arts or the involvement in political or social groups, the great variety of activities, clubs and events on campus make it quite impossible to get bored. Joining clubs and taking part in sports also offers great opportunities to find new friends and to settle in more easily.
Sport UNIFIT on campus.
Bielefeld University has its own University
Choir and University Orchestra. If you enjoy
singing or playing an instrument, find out
more on the following Internet pages.
And if you only like to listen, this tip is for
you as well!
Classical music is all very well, but where can you go and dance? Parties, of course! What would university be like without parties? During the semester, a party is held nearly every Wednesday evening either in the Westend, the Mensa, or the Audi-Min. Starting at 11 in the evening, you can enjoy a lot of good music either for free or at a very low price. And if you prefer to party at home, just tune in to the university's own radio station, the Uni-Funk. Students at Bielefeld University have been running their own station since December 2000. Just tune in to Hertz 87.9 and enjoy!
Campus Radio (in German)
Apart from the concerts given by the University
Choir and Orchestra, many other cultural events
take place at the university. Once a week, the
Unikino offers good films at a budget price in
one of the lecture halls."Die Feuerzangenbowle"
starring Heinz Rühmann is particularly legendary.
If you're in Bielefeld during the winter
semester, be sure not to miss it in December!
There are also Theater Groups presenting their
work in the Audi−Min, Bands playing in the
main university hall, a wide range of facilities
at the Ästhetisches Zentrum, and lots more ...
There's bound to be something you'll like!
Mensa Menu
This is one of the most modern in Germany and
particularly convenient for the user. It is stocked
with more than 2 million books and electronic
media and subscribes to about 5,300 national
and international periodicals. All departmental
libraries are linked together both spatially and
by computer. Most books and media items are
on open shelves and easily accessible to the
public. On request, the Fernleihe-Service can
order any books or journal articles that are not
available in the library from other academic and
public libraries in Germany. WLAN throughout
the library provides access to the Internet from
your own laptop. The librarians offer an introductory
course on how to use their facilities at
the beginning of each semester.
All libraries are situated on Level 1 of the
university building and are also open to the
general public. Most books may be borrowed
and taken out for what is usually a fourweek
lending period.
Opening hours:
Mo-Fri: 8:00 am − 1:00 am
Sat, Sun, and public holidays: 9:00 am − 22:00 pm
Our library
In the university computing centre (Hochschulrechenzentrum-HRZ) terminals with internet access are available to the students. Every semester the HRZ offers introductory and training course. Apart from this, every faculty has its own computers, which are connected with the HRZ.
Computing Centre (in German)
Deutsch
