This master's thesis (August 2022) uses selected objects from the collection "Kindermedienwelten" (Children's Media Worlds) of the IfaK at the Stuttgart Media University to explore the nationalization process of childhood through children's media at the time of the German Empire. With its foundation in 1871, the empire represented the apparent endpoint of a long and unsteady process of unification of German states. In the following decades, a multitude of different measures intended to serve the internal formation of the empire can be observed. Alongside approaches such as the unification of infrastructures stand attempts to construct a nation with a long history through retrospectives and visions of the future. Children appeared in this system as an integral part of the "people's power." Subsequently, this work is dedicated to the question of how the nation integrated itself into the children's room and everyday life. For this purpose, four objects from the period of the German Empire in the collection "Kindermedienwelten" were examined more closely: Issues of the magazine supplement "Im Reiche der Kinder," a Laterna magica picture series, a scrapbook, and a German Red Cross postcard. Download (2 pages)