

Argula von Grumbach – A Reformist Protest
“I send you not a woman’s ranting, but the Word of God as a member of the Church of Christ.” It was Argula von Grumbach who wrote these words in 1523 at the end of a heated letter to the faculty of the University of Ingolstadt. Sophie Potente, research volunteer for the exhibition “From Luther to Twitter. Media and the Public Sphere” explores in this DHM blog why a woman of the people raises her voice and challenges the professors to a discussion – and that in public. Virtually unthinkable in the year 1523.


Change of Identity through Cross-dressing


The Long History of Storming Parliament Buildings


Beethoven’s Music Gone Astray


#FokusDHM: War and Peace


Plague and Cholera and Corona. Epidemics in History


#FokusDHM: The City in the Middle Ages


The Internet


The Television


#FokusDHM: The German Women’s Movement


The Radio


The Newspaper


The Letterpress Printing


A very Short History of the Political Public Sphere


Witness of the Holocaust: Sheindi Ehrenwald’s Notes


Surviving Spring: The Long Final Days of WWII in Europe


Suddenly on Point? ‘Dr Beak’ at the DHM


The Godfather – Humboldt and the Invention of Photography


On Philistines and Eagle Bashers. Towards a History of Crossbow Shooting


Sheindi Ehrenwald’s Notes


Hit the Mark? Figures of Speech about the Crossbow


‘An attempt at wishful thinking, all it did was create a sense of fear.’


11 August is Constitution Day! The Weimar Republic celebrates?


“No sensational news in the world today”


Coup by Teleprinter


Blog parade: What does Democracy mean to me? #DHMDemokratie


“We are not curious, we are simply inquisitive”


Kicking up the Dust Still Lying Around.


“He was still so young”


Christmas Island


Stories: What are human rights?


Stories: On Nazi-Confiscated Art, Responsibility and Restitution


Stories: The Kindertransporte, 1938–39


Stories: 1918: Revolution and Republic


Stories: November Pogroms


Stories: Columbus Day


Stories: Gone Fishing?


Stories: Why Are School Lessons in Germany 45 Minutes Long?


Blog Parade: “Europe and the Sea” – Jürgen Elvert #DHMMeer


Blog Parade: “Europe and the Sea – What does the sea mean to me?” | #DHMMeer


Stories: June 1938: ‘Juni-Aktion’ and ‘Aktion Arbeitsscheu’


Stories: The Stone Cross from Cape Cross – Three countries, three histories, one past


Stories: The Thirty Years’ War


Stories: Queer History


Stories: Austria’s “Anschluss” with Germany in 1938


Stories: The ‘Mickey Mouse Mark’ and the ‘Wallpaper Mark’


Stories: Leaflets against Dictatorship


Stories: Carnival


Stories: Censorship in Germany


Stories: Animals and Wall Plates


Martin Luther: Portrait of a Culture of Commemoration


Mata Hari, the Beautiful Spy


Harvest Festivals and Harvest Thanksgiving


Equal Rights, Equal Duties – Women’s Suffrage in Germany


Terror and publicity


Iconoclasm and Reformation


Baedeker: From Field Post Letters to Travel Guides


4711 – Refreshes and calms the nerves


From Hymns to Paint Bombs


The invention of the grandmother


Alternative Facts, Fake News and Post-Truth Statements


Fake News 1937: Germany disputes the bombing of Guernica


The rise of tourism


Remembrance can take different forms


The Warsaw Genuflection: Willy Brandt’s historic gesture


The Year without a Summer: how Europe descended into climate chaos


The research expeditions of Humboldt


Advertising during the German economic miracle


The history of telling the time


The language of reunification


A day in Berlin in the Golden Twenties


A moped for the millionth ‘Gastarbeiter’


Gambling at the imperial court


The electrification of Germany


History of table manners


History of non-smoking


Germany as a land of emigration

