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In der Vergangenheit gab es ganz verschiedene Arten vom Kino. Hier lesen Sie: Wie ist das Kino entstanden?

Alongside ‘Silent Night, Holy Night’ and the Christmas tree, the Christmas market is one of those Christmas customs that are also very popular outside of Germany and have a lasting influence on the image of German Christmas traditions. But are the markets of the Middle Ages really the ancestors of today's Christmas markets? What role does nostalgia play in these traditions, and what does Christmas have to do with nationalism? Join us on a stroll through the history of Christmas markets.

Der CSD ist eine Demonstration für die Rechte von queeren Menschen. Dieser Text erzählt die Geschichte vom Christopher Street Day in Leichter Sprache.

Dr Martin Breuer will take over as head of the German Digital Library's administrative office on 1 December 2025, where he will be responsible for finance, legal affairs and communications. He succeeds Dr Julia Spohr, who is leaving the German Digital Library after around six successful years to take over as head of the German Resistance Memorial Foundation at the turn of the year.

The wheelchair as a vehicle for people with reduced mobility is not a modern invention – it has existed in one form or another for thousands of years.

‘Colonial goods’ – that sounds like small shops selling fine coffee and exquisite chocolate, like the ‘good old days’. These ‘good old days’, the colonial goods shops, the coffee, tea and cocoa they sell, are inextricably linked to the exploitation of other people, the violent seizure of land outside Europe and the suppression of resistance to the process of colonisation. This history is often repressed.

Family research with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek – discover how historical sources in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, the Archivportal-D and the Deutsches Zeitungsportall can be used for family research at the Genealogists' Day in Frankfurt am Main.

What sounds like the Germanised word for basketball is actually a separate sport that is only played in Germany, and even here only in certain regions.

On 23 December 1866, the young sailor Tjark Evers gets a lift from boatmen to pay a surprise visit to his parents and siblings. His family lives on the East Frisian island of Baltrum and Tjark is doing his apprenticeship on the mainland in Timmel when he decides to make a spontaneous trip home for Christmas. On this day there is dense sea fog, nevertheless the boat sets off...