TY - EJOUR AU - Wilhelmi, Dr. Anja AU - Connor, William T1 - Flirting on the ice T2 - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa PY - 2024/12/11 UR - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/671a3d5f2992d2.29661025 DA - 2025/06/13 PB - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft LA - en AB - By the 19th century, ice skating had developed into a fashionable pastime for the upper classes. The skating rink became an important public space, where social hierarchies, moral values and notions of gender manifested themselves. In the Baltic states too, skating was an integral part of the lives of the German population, as numerous memoirs attest. But why did it play such an important role for people during their years of childhood and coming-of-age to the extent that it would later feature so prominently in their memoirs? KW - Tallinn KW - Tartu KW - Jelgava KW - Rīga KW - Saint Petersburg KW - Russian Empire KW - Livonia KW - Tallinn KW - Courland KW - Estland KW - Saaremaa KW - Ice skating KW - Ice skate KW - Childhood KW - Youth KW - Ice rink L1 - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/671a3d5f2992d2.29661025 ER -