Streaming television is becoming increasingly popular - the traditional offerings of private and public broadcasters, on the other hand, are being used less and less. More than one in two Germans now regularly (i.e. at least once a week) watch films or series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Sky or another platform. This means that the proportion of streaming users has more than doubled in just three years.

More and more people report regularly engaging in spontaneous leisure activities, simply doing whatever they feel like. While ten years ago "only" about one in three said they spent their free time unplanned at least once a week, now it's almost one in two.

Almost three quarters of all German citizens currently want more moments of pleasure in their lives - in 2017, this only applied to half of all citizens. The German population is almost unanimous on this point - both now and then: there are no significant differences between the sexes or between the different income brackets and places of residence.

Eight per cent of Germans write a diary regularly - i.e. at least once a week. As many as three per cent even put their thoughts on paper every day. Since 2020, the attractiveness of this leisure activity has increased by three percentage points (2020: 5%). Diary writing is particularly popular among the under-30s and is therefore practised twice as often.

Social media has become an integral part of life for many Germans. Currently, more than two-thirds of Germans use Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and similar platforms at least once a week in their free time. This figure has doubled in the last ten years (2013: 341,000). As expected, younger users (under 30: 811,000) are almost twice as likely to be active on social media platforms as older users (over 65: 431,000).

At present, almost one in five German citizens relaxes at least once a month in a sauna, spa, massage or other wellness treatment. This means that interest in this leisure activity has doubled within a decade. City dwellers and young adults in particular enjoy treating themselves to a break in their free time in this way.

On average, one in seven German citizens currently goes to the cinema at least once a month - more than before the pandemic. In large cities, more than one in five people are once again being drawn to the cinema, whereas this leisure activity is much less common in rural areas.

More than half of all German citizens support the use of public and more environmentally friendly means of transport and would even prefer them to their own car - provided that the alternatives are suitably good. In large cities, two thirds can even imagine doing so, while the figure is significantly lower among the rural population.

Two thirds of the population regularly cook or bake something in their own kitchen in their free time. There are only slight differences in age, whereas women are even more active. However, more than half of all men have now also discovered this leisure activity for themselves.