@james , thanks for investigating this so quickly and finding the issue! Can confirm - works with English language.
My lesson learnt today: also search the closed issues on github 
After the latest Update to 1.23.0 (Snipe-IT 8.8.0) we can not "browse" anything.
Clicking on Items, Licenses, Users, etc. just shows a blank page, but it still shows the number of items in each category:

Entering an asset tag in the top right search opens the asset normally but viewing its history or any other tab also opens blank:

Restarting the app did not help.