In the first part of the seminar, students from Germany and abroad had the opportunity to explore various extracurricular learning locations with the seminar leader Tanja Fohr and to learn more about memorial site education and other approaches in expert discussions, for example with the dOCUMENTA13 artist Gunnar Richter. In test sequences on site, for example in the "Neue Galerie" museum or at the "Amtsgericht", various didactic and methodological approaches were tested, discussed and further developed in teams in the form of teaching simulations. In the second part of the project seminar, the participants worked independently on the development of extracurricular learning locations. The selection was based on personal interests, but also on their own experiences as learners of German in Kassel. For example, one group commented: "When I arrived in Germany, I was afraid to take the streetcar. I didn't know what the word 'direction' meant and couldn't ask for directions."

Another team was interested in exploring a primary place of learning, i.e. a place that is actually already set up for learning. Art museums, memorials or places of cultural and historical significance such as the Marble Baths in Kassel are difficult for German learners to understand, despite guided tours and instructions. After a guided tour of the "Neue Galerie", some foreign students realized that they had hardly understood anything because they could not understand the technical terms used to explain the context of the pictures. Based on this problem, this group developed a concept for learning German in the Marble Baths.

In the final part of the seminar, the students presented their project results on site in the form of teaching simulations. The whole seminar and guests from the DaFZ department slip into the role of German learners at different levels and try out action- and communication-oriented German lessons, for example on the way through the town hall, on the streetcar, walking through the Karlsaue and in the Marmorbad.

The project seminar "From speechless amazement to animated conversation: experience-oriented learning outside the classroom" shows how theoretical and practical aspects of professional qualification at the university can be combined in such a way that the pedagogical keywords of holistic, action- and production-oriented learning are filled with life.