Europe – a region that is more than the sum of its parts. Migration and the constant exchange between its inhabitants have been and still are of utmost importance to the creation of a European relationship history. The Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (IKGS) is dedicated to exploring the diverse facets of this history, with a focus on South-Eastern Europe.
The Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (“Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas e.V.”), or IKGS, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich explores the history, literature, and language of the German settlements and regions of origin in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe in their historical and regional contexts. It focuses on the 19th and the 20th century. In cooperation with partners from German, Austrian, East-Central European, and South-Eastern European universities, the IKGS supports the national and international academic discourse through research projects, expert events, and publications. It has a specialized library and an archive focused on the heritage of German-speaking authors in South-Eastern Europe.
The IKGS has been granted the status of an academic institute at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich since 2004. Its academic staff is comprised of lecturers from various European universities. The IKGS supervises and promotes students and junior researchers. Furthermore, with its diverse outreach program, the IKGS is able to reach a broad audience.
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Preservation Project

Protection of cultural assets and cultural heritage in Bukovina Languages, Denominations and Cultures - City and Countryside in Interaction

The project aims at digitally recording the former archbishop's residence of the Orthodox Metropolitan of Bukovina and Dalmatia, today's main building complex of the Yuri Fedkovych University of Chernivtsi (UNESCO World Heritage Site), the equipment of the Museum of the University of Chernivtsi...
Digitalization project

Klingsor goes Online: Digitization of the most important German-language cultural journal in Southeastern Europe

The aim of the project is to make the monthly journal, Klingsor, and its predecessors, Das Ziel and Das Neue Ziel, available in digital form. As part of the project, the 19 journal volumes with a total of 8,200 pages will be digitized by an external service provider in full-text searchable form and...
Digitalization project

Capital of Culture Project "Timisoara Collection"

Since November 1, 2021, the Digitale Forum Mittel- und Osteuropa e.V. has been dedicated to the realization of a digital collection of historical documents on the "European Capital of Culture Timisoara 2023" and thus follows on from the successfully implemented Digitalis projects (Kaschau/Košice...
Indexing project

Securing the estate of Richard Wagner

Since May 2015, Richard Wagner's estate has been catalogued and organized according to scholarly and archival criteria as part of a two-year project. It has now been generally accessible since October 2017.
Digitalization project

Wiki "Romanian-German Literature - Actors and Institutions"

The goal is to create a thematic wiki on Romanian-German literature, its actors and corresponding institutions.
Indexing project

Securing the estate of Paul Schuster

Since December 2015, the estate of Paul Schuster has been catalogued and organized according to scientific and archival criteria as part of a twenty-month project.
Conference project

Humanity and ‚Humanities‘

Within the framework of two lecture panels and a round table, the central challenges that the war in Ukraine poses for the humanities will be presented and discussed. Taking the example of the Ukrainian University of Chernivtsi/Czernivtsi, whose main building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the...
Digitalization project

Surveying the ghettos Grodno - Chernivtsi - Chișinău

Together with civil society multipliers, historians and IT experts, students from Ukraine, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova are conducting several workshops and micro-projects on the history of the ghettos of Grodno, Chernivtsi and Chișinău.
Cultural education and communication project

Saxonica everyday history under Communism using the example of the Transylvanian Saxons

As part of this project, around 60 contemporary witness interviews with Transylvanian Saxons and Romanians from the Sibiu area will be conducted in cooperation with teachers and students from the University of Sibiu, and photos of everyday life after the Second World War as well as written documents...
Education and communication project

Moldova

With Russia's war of aggression, the Republic of Moldova and the breakaway "republic" of Transnistria have also become the focus of media coverage. of media coverage. We encounter Moldovans on a daily basis, mostly unrecognized, primarily as migrant workers. Their country of origin is terra...