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The article covers various topics, including the desecration of the Cologne Synagogue in 1959, the role of journalists in early West Germany, the struggle for academic freedom at the Free University of Berlin in the 1960s, the relationship between Joachim Gauck and Helga Hirsch, as well as the silence of legal elites regarding the past of German jurisprudence during National Socialism. The author also mentions the rejection of an article on the past of German jurisprudence by the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and the collective concealment of a covert constitutional amendment by the German Bundestag and Bundesrat in 2017. In this text, the author criticizes the constitutional issues related to the introduction of "marriage for all" in Germany. He criticizes the fact that the societal dimension of this change was not mentioned in the legislative bodies and that the constitutionality of the law was not sufficiently discussed. The author accuses the Chancellor of bypassing constitutional review of the law with her statement in a women's magazine. He also criticizes the lack of media response to his inquiries on other topics. The author laments the decline in morals and the lack of press freedom. [Extracted from the article]

In June 1947 Paul Tillich signed a contract with The University of Chicago Press for a 'Systematic Theology' in two volumes. Having published the first volume in April 1951, he asked the publisher to split the second volume into two parts, which were published in 1957 as volume II and 1963 as volume III. In this article the different editions of 'Systematic Theology' are described, and the economic aspects of writing and publishing this very influential academic book are explained. Many unknown sources are presented. Some of them show Tillich as an author in real despair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spectrum of subjects the IFLA Newspapers Section (in future: News Media Section) has to deal with has broadened considerably due to retrodigitization and the development of new digital news media. Conferences in 2014 treated - among others - the following subjects: digital deposit copy collections and new tasks of libraries concerning news media, digitization of newspapers, especially the Europeana Newspapers Project, use outlines and activities of libraries for attractive, user-friendly access to historic newspapers. OCR improvement, Named Entity Recognition and automated linking procedures as ways to optimize research in newspapers were also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the future expectations of the German Jews during the 19th century as expressed in the German-Jewish newspapers and journals, and on how the expectations varied across different Jewish groups and changed over time. Topics that Jewish Germans, such as Ludwig Geiger and Felix Theilhaber, wrote about in Jewish newspapers including "Der Israelit" and "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums (AZJ)" are discussed, which include Zionism in Germany, the migrations of Jews, and antisemitism in Germany.

The article discusses a civil case before the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice, BGH) of Germany, decided on June 11, 2013, which revolved around the personality rights of citizens interviewed for a satirical television program. Issues raised included how personality rights and freedom of the press can be balanced, whether public political activism such as demonstrations obviate claims based on an individual's right to privacy, and if persons can petition for injunctions against television stations in such cases.