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"We, too, are stepping down from our role"
Web documentary about the German Drama Theater in Temirtau and the Germans in the Soviet Union between staying and leaving.
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"What you can carry on your own"
On November 18, 1944, nine-year-old Elsa Beck flees the Hungarian village of Máriakéménd with her mother and sister. Elsa's mother allows her to take with her what she can carry herself. Elsa decides to take her school suitcase. Today, this is held in the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm.
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A City Inside the City
Some disdain it as an enclave of a consumerist, unthinking middle class. Others sing its praises and consider it a one-of-a-kind urban development project. No other urban district in Poland has been written about and discussed as much as the Miasteczko Wilanów. But where do the roots of this discussion lie? What part do literature and other art forms play in the reproduction of those narratives? And what does the reality behind the stereotypes and urbanistic homages actually look like?
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Blood and Metal. The Transnational Knowledge Spaces of Ludwig Hirszfeld and Jan Czochralski in the 20th Century
The research project focuses on 20th-century Polish scientists who were not educated in Poland and examines how their inventions and ways of thinking were influenced by cultural factors such as nation, language and denomination, as well as the places they were educated and society as a whole.
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Divided Loyalties political and cultural Orientations in the First World War
An international conference of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (IKGS) and the National Yuriy Fedkovych University Chernivtsi/Czernivtsi, Ukraine.
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Edina's beach bag
A blue and white striped bag with white handles - at first glance an inconspicuous beach bag. But it tells the moving story of the then 33-year-old Edina Rizvanović's flight from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina to Ulm.
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Home in a trunk of clothes - the Garlik family's traditional costume suitcase
This suitcase has traveled far – not, as one might expect, after the Second World War, but rather in the decades after the flight of the Nessner family. It was used to transport the traditional costumes of a Danube Swabian dance troupe from Baden-Württemberg as they toured to enclaves of Danube Swabians scattered around the world.
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Kulturkorrespondenz östliches Europa (Cultural correspondence Eastern Europe)
From conversations with prominent cookbook authors to reports about Bohemian vineyards to historical articles, for example, on the tourism pioneer Carl Stangen, a kind of German Thomas Cook from Wroclaw – Kulturkorrespondenz östliches Europa (KK) offers insightful background material and a great...
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Library and Bibliography Portal of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
Research using our portal with access to one million items of data on history literature, literature and culture of East Central Europe.
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New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies
Decades after the political changes of 1989, Eastern Europe remains one of the lesser known regions of the world. The publication series “New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies” therefore investigates its history with a special focus on the Baltic States, Poland, the Czech...
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Nordost-Institut
The research of the Nordost-Institut centers around the history and culture of the countries from Poland to Russia. The focus is on the manifold interconnections of these regions with German history. Therefore, questions of relationship and regional history are pursued as well as aspects of minority...
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Northeast Library
The Northeast Library is a specialized scientific library that deals with the regional history of northern East Central Europe and the history of the Russian Germans. The total holdings comprise approximately 170,000 media units. It forms part of the library network of the University of Hamburg.
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Not a Moment to Lose
In 1944, the entire German-speaking population of the village of Novo Selo in Yugoslavia flee for their their lives as the Red Army approaches. Among them is the Neuburger family, who travel by horse-drawn wagon via Hungary to Austria.
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Press clippings online
The online database "Press clippings online" enables the research of press clippings from the personal dossiers of the press clippings archive at the Herder Institute for East Central European History. The service is continually updated as further material is indexed and made available online. For...
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Russian-Germans
The virtual exhibition "Russian-Germans", which has been created at the Martin Opitz Library, focuses on Russian German literature. By focusing on the literary works of this heterogeneous group, the exhibition doesn't just talk about the Russian-Germans, but gives them a voice and listens carefully.
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Silesia – Shared Natural and Cultural Heritage
Preserving the culture and natural environment of Silesia and promoting tourism at the same time: Staying true to the project’s name, the Silesian Museum of Görlitz manages the project “Silesia – Shared Natural and Cultural Heritage” in cooperation with the Karkonosze National Park.
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The narrative of our changing times
In his parliamentary address of February 27, 2022, Chancellor Scholz developed the narrative of a historical turning point. This article explores what potential this narrative could unfold if it is taken seriously and kept up to date in terms of its semantic content and its historical roots.
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Ukrainian literature and culture in German-speaking countries
Very few people in Germany know about Ukrainian literature and culture. In this discussion, Maria Ivanytska, Professor at the Chair of Germanic Philology and Translation at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, now MSCA4Ukraine fellow at the University of Tübingen, and Claudia Dathe, one of...
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YouthSummerWorkshop Detmold
The workshop for youth leaders, which is organized by the Cultural Advisor for Russian Germans and takes place annually in the summer in Detmold, serves as a networking event, bringing together youth organizations from the Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Germany. A further aim is the development...