Since 2005 the German Institute for Literature Leipzig (DLL) resides in a bourgeois villa in the Wächterstraße 34. This central institution of Leipzig University is devoted to the education of prospective German writers. A key objective of its study program in the fostering and reflexion of individual literarary projects and writing. The bachelor program addresses on a broad range of oeuvres in prosa, lyrics and scenic writing. The focus of the masters program is on developing a project for a novel. Regularly, the institute can be visited for readings and other public events.