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Holding
Holdings and collections of the Danube Swabian Museum
From a refugee’s suitcase to a popcorn maker, from the jacket of a forced laborer to a perennial Christmas tree: the holdings of the Danube Swabian Museum convey Danube-Swabian culture and history in a multifarious and eclectic way. An unexpected and special feature of the collection is that many...
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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...
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Immanuel Kant Scholarship
The fellowship is aimed at doctoral students working on transnational and transcultural references or interconnections in Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, with a special focus on the German-speaking population. The application deadline for the new call is December 31, 2023.
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Research institute | Archive | Library
Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe
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...
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Journal
Jahresheft des Siebenbürgischen Museums Gundelsheim (Annual journal of the Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim)
The Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim regularly publishes an annual magazine, which reports on current research and exhibition projects as well as the general museum work.
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Digitalization project
Jewish German Bukovina 1918+
"Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" is a digitization project of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe and offers free access to historical and contemporary documents from Bukovina or related to Bukovina. The time period ranges from the end of the First World War to the present.
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Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part I
In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The first part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the seven Silesian Cistercian monasteries from the Middle...
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Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part III (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki)
In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The third part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the municipality and the Cistercian Abbey in Kamieniec...
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Library catalog
Library catalog (OPAC) of the Institute for German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe (IKGS)
In the library catalog of the Institute of German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe you can search in a stock of more than 20,000 books, 1,000 journals and hundreds of DVDs, CDs and much more.
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Library | Archive
Martin Opitz Library
The Martin Opitz Library (MOB) is the central library for German culture and history in Eastern Europe. It collects literature from all areas of East-Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The main focus of the collections is on the regions that today form western Poland and the Kaliningrad...
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Online library catalog
Online Catalog of the Martin Opitz Library
The online catalog of the Martin Opitz Library is based on the software VuFind and allows you to search the library's entire book and journal holdings, a constantly growing sub-collection of the archive and numerous external datasets. If you would like to search this institution's extensive...
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Online databases of the Transylvanian Museum
The Transylvanian Museum is gradually making its collections digitally available via its own homepage and other online databases. It also offers digital information and educational services via its YouTube channel and Facebook page.
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Online publication
Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe
Scientific, reliable and informative: this is what you can expect from the online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe of the BKGE.
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Research fellowship
Research grants of the IKGS
Are you conducting research on the culture and history of South Eastern and Central Europe? A research grant enables you to spend a research stay at the Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (IKGS) with access to its specialized library and archives.
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Symbols of enduring hope
When they fled, many refugees hoped that they would be able to return later. A bunch of keys from Marienburg, which has been preserved in the West Prussian State Museum, bears witness to this hope.
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Library holdings
The Library of the Adalbert Stifter Association
The library of the Adalbert Stifter Society is part of the scientific library in the Sudeten German House and thus part of the largest special collection on the history of the Czech lands, Czechoslovakia as well as the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Germany.
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Summer school
Transylvanian Summer Academy / Transylvanian Academy Week
You deal with Transylvania in an academic context? During the Transylvanian Summer Academy of the Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (IKGS) you can present your research projects for discussion, exchange ideas with professionals, and make lasting connections. You can do...
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Typisch schlesisch!? ("Typically Silesian!?")
"Is there such thing as a Silesian identity, and if so, how many?" The touring exhibition "Typically Silesian", which is available for loan, grapples with this question, which actually contains three other questions, namely, “where is Silesia?”, “who is Silesian?” and “what is typically...
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Online library catalog
Verbundkatalog Östliches Europa ("Union Catalogue Eastern Europe", VOE)
With more than 1,200,000 computerized titles from a network of over 30 libraries, collections and cultural and scientific institutions in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, the Verbundkatalog Östliches Europa ("Union Catalogue Eastern Europe", VOE) is a central instrument of the Martin Opitz...
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Object story
With Grandma's Laundry Basket, Running for our Lives
A nondescript woven wicker basket stands in the storeroom of the Martin Opitz Library in Herne. The handles on either side indicate that it might once have served as a laundry basket. With its four rather makeshift wheels, however, the basket tells more than just a family story; it also tells of local history and a story of escape.
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