Identitäten in regionalen Zentren der Habsburgermonarchie 1867-1918 (“Identities in Regional Centers of the Habsburg Monarchy 1867-1918“)
The case studies of Rijeka (Fiume/Reka/St. Veit am Pflaum) and Maribor (Marburg an der Drau)
How did the identities of different ethnic groups develop in the Habsburg Monarchy? How were they presented in public? Against this background, a new research project of the Institute for German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe (IKGS) examines Rijeka and Maribor in parallel. Both cities are still multicultural centers today and home to a wide variety of population groups and languages.
The aim of this multi-perspective and multilingual project is to take a look at the development and representation or self-representation of different identities in the public space of two different cities of the Habsburg Monarchy. In order to grasp the various cultural interdependencies and interactions, researchers will examine, in parallel, the central themes and problems of the identity-forming processes of selected population groups and linguistic entities (in Rijeka German, Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian and Slovenian; in Maribor German, Slovenian, Hungarian, Croatian, Czech). This work is supplemented by the comparative analysis of written sources from language and cultural associations and religious communities in both multicultural and multi-religious places.
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Duration
- 2016 - 2021
