Magdalena Eriksröd-Burger studied psychology and Slavic studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, where she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Slavic Art and Cultural Studies. Since April 2023 she works in the field of Public Science at the OeAD – Agency for Education and Internationalisation and is also engaged as a cultural manager and mediator. She deals with artistic-cultural topics in the Habsburg Monarchy and its East Central European successor states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her focus also includes general matters of pluri-, trans- and interculturality, women's and gender history, as well as consumer and food cultures. She was awarded the Georg Schroubek Young Researcher Award 2020 (LMU Munich) for her master's thesis "Prague Coffee Houses around 1900 as a Sociocultural Phenomenon." Her current PhD project “Creative Positions and Cultural Positionings: Women Actors in the Artistic Field in Prague (1918-1938)” (working title) is located at the Bamberg Graduate School for Literature, Culture and Media (BaGraLCM).
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The Triumph of the Puff Pastry Tartlets
Every recipe tells a story – be it that of one’s own family, social group, region, of nation states or whole empires. A particular dish is thus always both a symbol and an expression of cultural concepts. A recipe booklet compiled by students at the University of Bamberg looks at “Culinary...
Ani Hovhannisjan | Magdalena Eriksröd-Burger
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Prague Coffeehouse Culture around 1900

It would be almost impossible to imagine the rich history of European café culture without the Vienna coffeehouses or the Paris cafés. By contrast, the Czech capital, Prague, tends to be more associated with the consumption of beer. Yet, in the history of that city, the tradition of the...
Magdalena Eriksröd-Burger