Meta: Merged all the other merge requests into this branch

As a result of writing my bachelor's thesis, I updated and changed several packages in the original template. In particular, I replaced lstlistings with the more powerful minted package. If others want to leverage that, they can build on my changes.

.gitignore

+# auxiliary files for LaTeX
+*.acn
+*.acr
+*.alg
+*.aux
+*.bcf
+*.bbl
+*.blg
+*.fdb_latexmk
+*.fls
+*.ist
+*.loa
+*.lof
+*.log
+*.lol
+*.lot
+*.out
+*.run.xml
+*.synctex.gz
+*.tdo
+*.toc
+
+# project-specific files
+thesis-blx.bib
+_minted-thesis/
+generated/*
+plots/*.tex
+
+# auxiliary files for JabRef
+*.bak
+*.sav