diff --git a/babel.cfg b/babel.cfg
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+++ b/babel.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[jinja2: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/**.html]
diff --git a/messages.pot b/messages.pot
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+# Translations template for PROJECT.
+# Copyright (C) 2021 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2021.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-08-17 23:31+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 2.8.0\n"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/archives.html:3
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/archives.html:8
+msgid "Artikel"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/author.html:3
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/author.html:5
+#, python-format
+msgid "Artikel von %(author)s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:109
+msgid "Sponsoren"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:117
+msgid "Netzwerke und Partnerorganisationen"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:145
+msgid "Dieser Inhalt ist lizenziert unter"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:161
+msgid "Im Quell-Repository editieren"
+msgstr ""
+
diff --git a/pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html b/pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html
index fc1f95e188c293734963a6289f1003497f27b6be..0f030fc43138cebec481a6d81ef10fd2ff6354ab 100644
--- a/pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html
+++ b/pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
                     {% endfor %}
                 </div>
                 <div class="col s12 m6" id="partners-box">
-                    <h3 class="black-text sponsorheading">Netzwerke und Partnerorganisationen</h3>
+                    <h3 class="black-text sponsorheading">{% trans %}Netzwerke und Partnerorganisationen{% endtrans %}</h3>
                     {% for alt, image, url in PARTNERS %}
                         <a href="{{ url }}"><img src="{{ image }}" href="{{ url }}" alt="{{ alt }}" title="{{ alt }}" class="sponsorslogo" /></a>
                     {% endfor %}
diff --git a/pelican_theme_teckids/translations/en/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo b/pelican_theme_teckids/translations/en/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
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Binary files /dev/null and b/pelican_theme_teckids/translations/en/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo differ
diff --git a/pelican_theme_teckids/translations/en/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po b/pelican_theme_teckids/translations/en/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
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+++ b/pelican_theme_teckids/translations/en/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# English translations for PROJECT.
+# Copyright (C) 2021 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2021.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-08-17 23:31+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2021-08-17 23:29+0200\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language: en\n"
+"Language-Team: en <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 2.8.0\n"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/archives.html:3
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/archives.html:8
+msgid "Artikel"
+msgstr "Articles"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/author.html:3
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/author.html:5
+#, python-format
+msgid "Artikel von %(author)s"
+msgstr "Articles by %(author)s"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:109
+msgid "Sponsoren"
+msgstr "Sponsors"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:117
+msgid "Netzwerke und Partnerorganisationen"
+msgstr "Networks and partner organisations"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:145
+msgid "Dieser Inhalt ist lizenziert unter"
+msgstr "This content is licensed under"
+
+#: pelican_theme_teckids/templates/base.html:161
+msgid "Im Quell-Repository editieren"
+msgstr "Edit in source repository"
+