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Dr. Annette Schieck presented the work of the German Textile Museum Krefeld at the research colloquium on January 20. With more than 30,000 objects, the museum houses and conserves a wide variety of textiles and clothing from Europe, Asia and Africa. As well as giving an insight into the history of Krefeld as a textile location and its collection and restoration, Annette Schieck spoke about the research carried out at the museum and research opportunities, including for students.

At the research colloquium on January 13, Erika Érsek, research associate at the Reutlingen Historical Museums, spoke about digital strategies for communicating industrial history. Among other things, she highlighted the work of the Reutlingen Industrial Museum, in which, in addition to the on-site exhibition of machines from Reutlingen's significant textile and mechanical engineering history, the operation of steam engines, looms and knitting machines is kept alive virtually and the work of the experts is preserved for posterity in videos and interviews.

ZDF

The car as an extended living room - a seatbelt might just get in the way... Who does not remember one's own experiences with the "inertial force" when braking the car - without a seatbelt? Seat belts have been compulsory for 50 years now. In an interview on ZDF's "hallo deutschland" program on January 5, Silke Zimmer-Merkle puts the state's life-saving intervention in the privacy of German drivers in the context of technological history.

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Anna Onufriienko (Karlsruhe) spoke at the research colloquium on December 2 on the topic of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Plank's Soviet Journeys: Refrigeration Technologies in the Context of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine. Plank was Professor of Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Technology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (later Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) from 1925-1954.

V&R

Dr. Anne Sudrow (Berlin) was a guest at the History Department's research colloquium on November 25. In her lecture, she discussed the research and production of herbal medicines carried out under inhumane conditions in the so-called "herb garden" of the Dachau concentration camp by the SS company "Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Ernährung und Verpflegung".