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How many people actually use Copernico? And for what purposes? Where and how are users engaging with the portal’s content—and with our social media posts? What role do the English-language pages play, and how international is our readership? Behind the scenes, we seek to understand these...

Copernico relies on a wide range of databases to curate its data in a way that is as sustainable, structured, and standards-based as possible. To support this, additional in-house databases and input interfaces have also been developed.

“The Middle Ages are everywhere” – this dictum by Horst Fuhrmann, long-time president of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, coined in 1997, remains as relevant as ever. But what role has Eastern Europe played in shaping modern understandings of the period?

In the Middle Ages, even though no formal education for females existed, we know that there were powerful and educated women.

Every day Russian propagandist media produces new misinformation, like a factory working ceaselessly on the constitution of a parallel world. Nevertheless, many people still ask themselves: is Russia not entitled to have its own opinion, its own perspective on events? The aim of this article is to...

To what extent does Russia’s war against Ukraine affect German-language authors? What influence does it have on their literary self-image, their subjects and their language? Texts by Durs Grünbein, Kerstin Preiwuss and Marcel Beyer will be analyzed in this context. All three authors see the war...

What kind of literature emerges in a country experiencing an ongoing war? What are these contemporary Ukrainian literary texts about, and what is their main function?

The portal “In The Thunderstorm of War” presents interviews with academics from Ukraine who are no longer able to pursue their actual profession due to the Russian war of aggression.