In her new documentary film, teacher Larissa Anton deals with the topic of witch hunts and superstition in the Odenwald.

Knud Seckel sings the famous Falcon song by “Der von Kürenberg,” which is likely one of the most well-known Middle High German texts. It originates from around the year 1160. The author, Der von Kürenberg, is said to have come from and worked in the Bavarian/Austrian region and is considered as the first minstrel singer known by name who sang in German.

In this report on RheinMain TV, the Wiesbaden Museum’s provenance researcher Peter Forster discusses his work researching works of art stolen from Jews during the Third Reich.

On occasion of the commemoration of the Holocaust victims, Hesse’s Minister President Volker Bouffier visits the Isaak Emil Lichtigfeld School in Frankfurt and talks to the Jewish students about tolerance and mutual acceptance.

In this RheinMain TV report provenance researcher Forster continues his account of how the Museum Wiesbaden came to own a large collection of stolen art from the Third Reich.

Join Diane yet again on the medieval Christmas Market! Find out about the interesting history of the crossbow, its early controversial use in battle, and witness a demonstration of how to use it properly.

Do you believe in witches? In the Middle Ages many people did, and so-called witches were simply burned at the stake. Larissa Anton made a film about the history of witches.

Most people tend to associate symbols like roses and hearts with the term "Romanticism." However, visitors' searches for such things at the special exhibit "Black Romanticism" in Frankfurt am Main are proving futile. Instead, images of nightmares and demons lie in wait for them. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Did you miss your German class last week? Well you can be glad you didn’t live in the Middle Ages, as the concept of punishment in those days was… torturous. The director of the Middle Ages Torture Museum of Rüdesheim/Rhein shows us the instruments of torture used on people who misbehaved, and points out that some Middle Age methods such as waterboarding are still used by some dubious governments today. Viel Spaß beim Lernen!

In part one of this series, Yabla star reporter Diane attends the Peter and Paul festival in Bretten, where she not only dons medieval garb, but proceeds to take lessons in loading and shooting a replica of an ancient matchlock musket, and all in a genuine Baden dialect!