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The Riemann mapping theorem of 1851 has several generalizations. One may drop the condition of simple connectivity in the case of one complex variable, and one may ask for biholomorphically equivalent domains in \(n\)-dimensional complex number space. The first question goes back to Schottky 1875 who introduced domains bounded by circular lines as canonical. Koebe contributed significantly around 1908 when he also conjectured the Kreisnormierungsproblem: Each domain of the complex plane can be mapped biholomorphically onto such a circle domain (uniquely up to fractional linear transformations). A telegraphic survey includes fairly conclusive results of Zheng-Xu He and Oded Schramm of the 1990s. The \(n\)-dimensional problem is a Pandora's box. Poincaré lifted the lid off in 1907, and set the agenda for further research. He studied conditions on pieces of the boundary of the domains and began to introduce Lie groups, paving the way toward conditions in terms of automorphism groups of the domains. In the 1930s B. Segre and the Cartans began the search for complete systems of invariants for the boundaries (as hypersurfaces), which was taken up by Chern and Moser in the 1970s. Other directions were initiated by Reinhardt in 1921 who considered circle domains, and by the method of the Carathéodory metric (1926). Work up to 1934 was surveyed in the Ergebnisbericht by Behnke and Thullen. This stimulated further research, briefly listed here. The highly valuable list of 124 references of the paper under review includes survey articles supplying further information. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00023].