News

October 22, 2025, the Digital Classroom and Digital History Lab (GA 5/53) was opened.

The lab enables innovative teaching formats in public history and history didactics. With VR equipment and a smartboard, it offers space for testing history teaching skills for history lessons in digital conditions.

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Publications

The recently published volume of sources on antiquity by Christian Bunnenberg, Tobias Arand, Holger Dietrich and Martin Fell offers a range of sources that are suitable for students to learn by thinking for themselves: Arand, Tobias et al. (Hrgs.): Antike. Ungewöhnliche Quellen für den Geschichtsunterricht (Fundus - Quellen für den Geschichtsunterricht), Frankfurt am Main 2025.

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Research

Current projects include history in immersive media (AR, VR, 360° film), history teaching under digital conditions and history of the 19th century. 
 

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Public History

The seventh year Public History students have published a podcast about the first luxury cruise of the Augusta Viktoria in 1894: "Mit Champagner auf (Nor)Wegen" can be found on Spotify.

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