October 2023. Being a “Vertrauensdozent” (liaison lecturer) of the Hans Böckler Foundation, I was re-appointed to serve in yet another term (2024-25) of the PhD Board of the Böckler Foundation.
August 2023. Germany’s leading news magazine DER SPIEGEL is featuring recent research I published together with Cornelia Baddack on the newspaper collection of Katharina Kardorff-Oheimb. The original research article is published in the “Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte”, vol. 25 (2023).
July 2023. We are pleased to see our historical comic “Hamburg 1686” among the titles of the long list of the book prize “Hamburg Lesen” 2023.
April 2023. Today is a good day to let you know that our “Hidden Cities” Apps have won the Digital Humanities Awards 2022 in the category “Best Use of DH for Fun”. Have a look: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2022/results/
December 2022. The comic “Hamburg 1686” has been published. The illustrator Till Lenecke interpreted our app tour of Hamburg in 1686 in brilliant ways. Even the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Andreas Platthaus was impressed by this piece of art and work.
November 2022. I am honored to have been appointed to the committee of the Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreises für Bibliotheks-, Buch- und Mediengeschichte at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.
July 2022. Our monograph Eine Stadttour durch Hamburg im Jahr 1686. Die App „Hidden Hamburg“ als erlebbare Geschichte und Digital-Public-History-Experiment (Bremen: edition lumière 2022) has been selected to the long list of the book prize “Hamburg Lesen“ 2022.
September 2020. Our App “Hidden Cities: Hamburg” has been published, as part of the Hidden Cities family of early modern city tours using smartphones: www.hiddencities.eu
November 2020. My talk about “Paper Flows”, presented in the virtual “Wissenswerkstatt” of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin PK, has been recorded and can be streamed at YouTube.
February 2019. The TerraX series (Arte/ZDF) “Ein Tag in ...” publishes a film about early modern Cologne in 1629, and I am one of the historians taking part in this: watch “Ein Tag in Köln 1629”