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Ellert & Richter [Published Date: 2007]. Hardcover, 252 pp. Text in German. Very good in very good dust jacket. Maroon paper over boards with white lettering on front and spine. Binding tight. Small crease to top corner of front free end paper. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light scuffing. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A comprehensive collection that explores Christmas traditions in Hamburg over the past five centuries. The book includes Christmas songs, baking and cooking recipes, short stories, and poems, alongside personal accounts that provide a vivid picture of how the Christmas season has been celebrated in the city over the years. The book is divided into several historical periods, covering Christmas traditions from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It features contributions from notable Hamburg writers, poets, and historians, such as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Matthias Claudius, and Wolfgang Borchert. [From back cover] Im "Hamburger Weihnachtsbuch" hat Eckart Klessmann all das Verstreute und Vergessene gesammelt: Weihnachtslieder, Back- und Kochrezepte, Erzahlungen, Gedichte sowie sehr personliche Zeugnisse aus funf Jahrhunderten Hamburger Geschichte. So ist ein lebendiger Eindruck dessen entstanden, was seit Jahrhunderten das Weihnachtsfest in Hamburg pragt.Mit Texten von Otto Beneke, Barthold Hinrich Brockes, Albrecht Jacob Zell, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Matthias Claudius, Garlieb Merkel, Philipp Otto Runge, Mosje Christian, Marianne Prell, Louis Gurlitt, Johann Hinrich Wiehern, Friedrich Hebbel, Emilie Weber, Berend Goos, Elise Averdieck, Albert Borcherdt, Erich Luth, Joachim Maass, Joachim Ringelnatz, Walter Kempowski, Hans Scheibner, Uwe Bahnsen, Wolfgang Borchert, Siegfried Lenz, Peter Ruhmkorf.