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Coffee is a global as well a local phenomenen - this is the basic thesis of Prof. Dr. Dorothee Wierling's new research project. The historian and Deputy Director of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg analysis how especially the merchants in Hamburg organized the trade with such a global commodity as coffee, which nowadays is exclusively produced in countries of the southern hemisphere, while consumption is dominated by industrialized countries in the north. In her inaugural lecture on the 22nd of Octobre she presented her project. The introduction was held by Prof. Dr. Andreas Gestrich, Director of the German Historical Institute London.