Below is a list of Masters and PhD theses in German (1958 - present) sorted in descending year order. Theses that are available online can be accessed via each catalogue record (linked below) and most online theses can be browsed by discipline via the Research Repository.

To browse those available in the Research Repository, go to Arts Theses and Dissertations / Thesis Discipline (scroll to bottom of column on left), and navigate to German.

See also: Thesis guide.

• The New Woman revisited: Asja Lacis between Germany and Russia (2019)
• Integration for, against or on the fence? German frames on the European migrant crisis to a global audience (2019)
• Policies on the integration of refugee children through education at primary schools of two Länder in Germany: an analysis of recommendations and initiatives by supranational, national and local political stakeholders (2019)
• An attack on womanhood : the sterilisation of women in Nazi Germany. (2016)
• Peacemaking through remaking: the international criminal tribunals and the political and social reconstruction of occupied Japan and Germany after 1945 (2015)
• Literature of the Holocaust perpetrator : a comparatlve literature analysis of Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones” with German Väterliteratur (father literature) / by Claudia Schnippering (2014)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christian Resistance and Ethics in Nazi Germany What is the Significance of Bonhoeffer? (2014)
• “It would be better,if some doctors were sent to work in the coal mines" (2013).
• The SED and the medical Intelligentsia between 1961 and 1981 (2013)
• When Words Take Lives: The Role of Language in the Dehumanization and Devastation of Jews in the Holocaust (2009)
• Juvenile Justice: A comparison between the laws of New Zealand and Germany (2007)
• Sharing the nature of the child's conception in families formed as a result of donor insemination: A study of the factors influencing parental decision-making in Germany ( 2005)
• The application of West German political dissent as a template for the analysis of contemporary social protest : anti-globalisation at the crossroads / by Selby J.P. Marshall (2004)
• A cultural theory of German ecotourism in New Zealand / by Maria J. Colberts (2003)
• Coldness in Europe 1910-30 : an investigation of a major motif in the works of Franz Kafka, Alfred Döblin and Robert Musil / by Oliver Harrison (2002)
• The pleasure of the ambiguous gaze : visual texts in postmodernity / by Andreas Martin Lohmann (2001)
• Goethe and the problem of dilettantism : an analysis of the problem of dilettantism in Goethe's Welt- and Kunstanschauung and its treatment in his writing / by Christopher Durrant (1995)
• Narrative literature and film : a study of the issue of the adaptation of German literature to film, and the relevance of various aspects of this issue to the adaptation to film of five German novels / by G.B. Morgan (1986)
• A mother or not? : changing attitudes toward childbearing and caring, as presented in selected works of East and West German women writers / by Kerry L. Thomas (1985)
• The 20th century Volksstuck : a comparative study of the drama of Horvath and Kroetz / by Lynley Jane Coster (1983)
• In control of their destiny? : a study of the situtation of women in socialist society reflected in recent literature of the German Democratic Republic / by Anne M. Coster (1982)
• A study of suggestopedia / by L.A. Sharrock (1981)
• Arthur Schnitzler's early plays and French comedy : a comparative study / Patricia Nolan (1980)
• Bonhoeffer here! : an introduction to Hanfried Mueller's interpretation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison letters / by Elizabeth C. Peach (1980)
• Woman's quest for identity : a comparison in the presentation of women in recent documentary and fictional literature in East and West Germany / by Lorraine North (1980)
• Erwin Strittmatter in reference to the agrarian novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centurie / Ian Gebbie (1978)
• An experimental German literature programme : for use in senior classes of New Zealand secondary schools / Wendy Matthews (1978)
• Martin Sperr's Bayrische Trilogie / Patricia Borrie (1978)
• Dieter Fortes Martin Luther & Thomas Munzer : oder, Die Einfuhrung der Buchhaltung. Versuch einer Interpretation / Karen Todd (1977)