SDSS-V will be an all-sky, multi-epoch spectroscopic survey of over six million objects. This will be carried out in three complementary programs. With the Milky Way Mapper (MWM) it is designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, trace the emergence of the chemical elements, reveal the inner workings of stars, and investigate the origin of planets. With the Local Volume Mapper (LVM) it will also create an integral-field spectroscopic map of the gas in the Galaxy and the Local Group that is 1,000x larger than the current state of the art and at high enough spatial resolution to reveal the self-regulation mechanisms of galactic ecosystems. Finally, SDSS-V will pioneer systematic, spectroscopic monitoring across the whole sky, revealing changes on timescales from 20 minutes to 20 years. With the Black Hole Mapper (BHM) it will thus track the flickers, flares, and radical transformations of the most luminous persistent objects in the universe: massive black holes growing at the centers of galaxies. Science observations for the MWM and BHM have begun already at the end of 2020, and LVM very recently had a groundbreaking for the construction of their new facility at LCO. As Heidelberg University is/will soon be a full institutional member, ZAH members are all welcome to become involved and contribute to any of the three projects in this very exciting early stage as we move from survey design into operations. In this talk, I will give an overview of all projects and science cases.