Antje Johanning-Radžienė

Dr. Antje Johanning-Radžienė studied German language and literature and art history at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, where she received her doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on Elfriede Jelinek. Since 1998, she has worked as a research assistant, cultural manager, and DAAD lecturer in Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Since 2019 she has worked as the project coordinator of the online portal "Copernico. History and Cultural Heritage in Eastern Europe" at the Herder Institute in Marburg. Editor of "A Wounded City. Residents of Kharkiv talk about the attack on their city.“

Editorial

A Wounded City

Residents of Kharkiv Talk About the Attack on Their City

What was the first day of the war like in Kharkiv? How has the city changed as a result of the devastating attack on Ukraine? How do people experience the war? Kharkiv residents were asked about this in the first months after February 24, 2022.

Editorial

Steinort – a European place of remembrance

Steinort is a European place of remembrance, because it is a place where the most diverse stories and memories intersect, intertwine, and overlap. The interview project by Ulla Lachauer and Agata Kern explores these subjective strands of memory and reveals a number of different cultures of...

How and why we gender

The debate about gender asterisks, underscores and colons is not dying down. It has been heating up people's minds again and again for years, especially in the social media. Those who strive for a gender-sensitive way of writing and/or speaking are not infrequently insulted as linguistic...

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20.09.2021

Object story

A Steinway for Eugen d'Albert?

In the “Eichendorff Hall” of Haus Schlesien in Königswinter there is a Steinway grand piano made of lemon wood. It is a noteworthy museum object not only because the famous Steinway & Sons lettering is emblazoned on it, but also, and above all, because it was owned by Gerhart Hauptmann, the...

Biography

A celebrated conductor from Liegnitz

Benjamin Bilse (1816–1902)

He is considered the ancestor of the Berlin Philharmonic: Benjamin Bilse, born in Liegnitz, Silesia, was one of the most famous conductors of the 2nd half of the 19th century.