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Online atlas

Danube Places

Discover the Danube region with Danube Places, the virtual travel guide of the Danube Swabian Museum! Many towns between the Danube city of Ulm and the Serbian capital of Belgrade have a connection to the migratory movements of the 18th century. This website (www.danube-places.eu) introduces 80...

Danube. River stories

"Look at me, says the Danube. Great am I, beautiful and wise. There is no one in Europe who could hold a candle to me." The Hungarian writer György Konrád put this not exactly modest statement into the mouth of the great river when he opened the first International Danube Festival in Ulm in 1998...
Research project

Deutsche Minderheiten im östlichen Europa (German minorities in Eastern Europe)

Why was the political representative of the German minority in Romania elected President in 2014? How do the German minorities in Russia and Poland influence Berlin's relations with Moscow and Warsaw? The research and documentation project " Deutsche Minderheiten im östlichen Europa” (German...

Digital Library of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe

The Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE) has been operating a digital, freely accessible specialized library with historical documents on Eastern Europe since 2008. In the middle of 2023, its holdings of periodicals included 254 titles, encompassing newspapers, magazines and annual...
Documentation center

Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

The Documentation Center offers exhibitions, a library and a testimony archive, tours, workshops and events. The Center provides information about the causes, dimensions and consequences of displacement, expulsion and forced migration in the past and present. Particular focus is on the displacement...
Oral history project | Film project

Donauschwäbische Zeitzeugen erzählen ("Danube Swabian eyewitnesses tell their stories")

Multiethnic coexistence, war and loss are formative experiences that affect a whole generation of people and can have a lasting impact on their children and grandchildren. The four-part film series "Donauschwäbische Zeitzeugen erzählen" ("Danube Swabian eyewitnesses tell their stories") gives...
Cultural institution

German Culture Forum for Central and Eastern Europe

The German Culture Forum for Central and Eastern Europe works to promote cross-border communication of German culture and the history of Eastern Europe in the form of events, exhibitions, and both printed and digital publications.
Podcast

Hanna Schygulla

The actor Hanna Schygulla was 30 years old when she first met Gottliebe von Lehndorff in 1973. The scene of the encounter: the artists' colony in the old Peterskirchen vicarage, east of Munich. They lived there for thirteen years, their apartments backing onto each other. Despite their age difference, they had many things in common, not least the experience of losing their homeland. In the podcast, the years they shared at Peterskirchen come back to life.
Biography

Hannah Wadle

In 2009, Hannah Wadle settled in Sztynort to do research for her doctoral thesis – and stayed for a whole year. Gradually, her cautious explorations turned into familiarity and what began as a purely academic interest became a dedicated personal commitment to the town and its people. She learned to see the Lehndorff manor house from many perspectives. In 2017, she founded a cultural festival, and since then the palace has come to life every August.
Atlas

Historical-Topographical Atlas of Silesian Towns

The atlas shows the development of selected towns in Silesia from the 19th to the 21st century. It focusses on urban expansion and the development of settlement as well as the expansion of modern transport infrastructure.
Research project

History of Latvian historiography

Historians do not only try to create a scientific picture of the past. With their historiography they are at the same time part of history, because their investigations reflect the questions and problems of their own time. The project "History of Latvian Historiography" describes the emergence of...
Holding

Holdings and collections of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

The scientific library of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation includes German and foreign language books, newspapers and magazines as well as digital media on the topic of forced migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries in Europe. In addition to a contemporary...
Image database

Image catalogue of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association

In the online database of the Image Archive you will find the previously inventoried and digitized image materials from the collections of the Herder Institute as well as additional image sources from joint indexing and digitization projects with cooperation partners. Further analog and digital...
Workshop

International DZM Forum "Migration Connects"

"Migration Connects" is both the name and the motto of the International DZM Forum. Here, people with international roots can meet, work together with the Danube Swabian Museum (DZM), and help to shape it. In doing so, they also help to make Ulm a little more colorful.
Background article

Kharkiv–a Metropolis at War

The initiators of the interview project stayed in Kharkiv during the continuous attacks. Iryna Skyrda, a member of Young Kharkiv, talks about what was special about the city and how it changed as a result of the war.
Infrastructure project | Transfer project | Cultural education and communication project

Kulturelle Vielfalt im Donauraum ("Cultural Diversity in the Danube Region")

Migration, cultural diversity and multiethnic coexistence are topics of ongoing social relevance. For this reason, the project Kulturelle Vielfalt im Donauraum ("Cultural Diversity in the Danube Region") at the Danube Swabian Museum (DZM) aimed to develop new formats to convey Danube Swabian history...

Kunst - Mensch - System ("Art - man - system")

Adaptation or resistance: these were the two poles between which many artists in the Soviet Union moved. The exhibition "Kunst - Mensch - System" ("Art - man - system") uses the example of the sculptor Jakob Wedel to show the influence the totalitarian regime had on an artist's work and everyday...
Biography

Marek Makowski and Piotr Wagner

Two passionate sailors, raised in Giżycko, not far from Sztynort. Marek Makowski (b.1984) and Piotr Wagner (b.1986) left at a young age, took advantage of the opportunities on offer in a united Europe and later returned to the world they grew up in. Marek, an entrepreneur and owner of a sailing school, and Piotr, a self-employed interpreter, tour guide and cultural professional, share a tangible vision for Sztynort.
Biography

Maria Zarębska

When Maria Zarębska was born, in July 1948, the village of Sztynort was still scarred by war. A few Masurian families had remained living there, but most of the inhabitants – like Maria's parents – were newcomers. Everyone was struggling to survive, to get along with each other, to find their way in socialist Poland. For a child like Maria, all this was "normal." The curious girl later became an avid and perceptive chronicler.
Research project

Memory as Palimpsest. Divided Heritage as Subject and Narrative Technique in Contemporary Literature

Based on the literary conference "Shared Heritage - gemeinsames Erbe [...] mit Schriftsteller/innen-Podium sowie Lesungen" (Fall 2020), this project addresses the "divided" heritage of Eastern Europe as a subject and narrative technique in contemporary literature.
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