Reducing the amount of household work. The introduction of the washing machine, here still running on gas. An advertising film […]

Women and men working on bullet-case machines in the Sterkrade production halls.

»But do you really know this town? Well, here you have the opportunity to go on a ramble through the […]

Elisabeth Wilms documented all the building phases in the construction of today’s Westphalia Hall. It was a modern replacement for […]

Here in 1947 we can still see the extent of Dortmund’s devastation. People are living under harsh conditions in cellars […]

It’s 1943 but delicious Christmas goodies are still on sale at the Wilms Bakery – gingerbread men, cream cakes, spiced […]

A film fragment of the Dortmund city centre before destruction. We see among other things the Horn Player Fountain, a […]

We see children playing and then running to a table covered with a variety of pastries. Children and mothers eating […]

»Well, our economic miracle stopped at our front door if you look at the state our staircase is in.« – […]

»We’d looked for an apartment in Ebel and set up some living and working premises there in order to get […]

»Saleswomen in a supermarket discover they are paid lower wages than the men who work in the same store. (…) […]

»The sober and candid description of the personal and professional conditions of a young saleswoman raises our awareness of the […]