“…In an undergraduate research seminar on conspiracy theories taught in the fall of 2019, students were asked to compile word lists on the basis of theoretical texts ( Butter, 2018 ; Detering, 2019 ; Horn and Rabinbach, 2008 ; Hunger, 2016 ; Krause, 2011 ; Melley, 2000 ; Strässle, 2019 ), individual international and German-language case studies ( The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , Compact-Magazin, KenFM, Alex Jones, Daniele Ganser, Eva Hermann) and research on (media) events occurring in the period of time our corpora cover (i.e. the ‘refugee crisis’ or the ‘Cologne New Year’s Eve, 2015/2016’).…”