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Interpretive Knowledge and Russia’s War of Aggression against Ukraine
Russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine poses new research challenges in the humanities and social sciences. Given the low level of knowledge about the background of the current war, politics, media, and the society as a whole are facing significant challenges to deliver orientation...
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Journal of East Central European Studies
The bilingual Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO), published by an international editorial board at the Herder Institute, is one of the most renowned specialist organs for historical research on East Central Europe. It is published quarterly in open access and features scholarly articles...
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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 II (Leubus)
In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The second part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the oldest of the seven Silesian Cistercian monasteries...
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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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Laima chocolate – a Riga icon
If you’ve ever visited Latvia, you’ll probably have heard of the chocolate brand Laima. Perhaps you’ll even have seen the Laima Clock, a popular meeting point in central Riga. Laima products have been among Latvia’s most successful exports all the way back to the 1920s. What’s less well known is that the company was originally founded by Jewish entrepreneurs.
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Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) focuses its research on the region between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Sea. From Late Antiquity until the present, we examine peculiarities, transformations and interrelationships in an ever-more global world. Fundamental...
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Library catalog | Bibliographic database
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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Literature in the café
Literature belongs in the coffee house: well-known authors from the Czech lands meet lesser-known ones, and between the clatter of coffee cups and cake forks, there is more to hear than just café music.
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Natürlich Oder
Die Oder hat viele Gesichter. Der international erfahrene Expeditionsfotograf Willy Sinn hat diese Vielfalt von Frankfurt/Oder bis Gleiwitz aus den unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven festgehalten. Das Ergebnis ist eine reizvolle Fahrt auf der "Lebensader Schlesiens", die dazu beitragen möchte, diesen...
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Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions 1918-1925
What effects did the upheavals after World War I have on local and regional actors – and how did they themselves actively shape these transformation processes? A cooperative project examined the Romanian cities of Kronstadt/Brașov and Hermannstadt/Sibiu and their German minorities as participants...
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Oder / Odra
Everything is in flow – there is so much in this river and along its banks. The exhibition "Oder / Odra" in the former Cistercian Lubiąż Abbey is dedicated to the river as the "lifeline of Silesia".
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Online search aid of the Document Collection at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
The online search aid of the Document Collection (DSHI) at the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe is the starting point for research in the holdings of the most important archive on the history of the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia in the German-speaking...
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Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum mit Deutschbaltischer Abteilung ("East Prussian State Museum with a Baltic German Department")
This museum, located right in the center of Lüneburg, is dedicated to the subject of East Prussia and the Baltic Germans. Here you will discover a fascinating region in East Central Europe, which, for 700 years, was shaped by the German language. Never before has a museum in Germany focused on the...
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Otokar Fischer Prize
The Otokar Fischer Prize is awarded for outstanding German-language and Czech-language humanities works on Germanobohemistic topics.
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Pfefferkuchen ("Gingerbread")
Several thousand tons of gingerbread are exported every year. Reason enough to take a closer look at this sweet baked treat and its history. The touring exhibition of HAUS SCHLESIEN, which is available for loan, tells the story of the origins and development of gingerbread and is dedicated to the...
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Regional history – 14,000 years of history in Pomerania and art gallery
14,000 years of human history along the southern Baltic coast are presented in the historical rooms of the 'Grey Monastery', built in 1845. Throughout the 1,300 square meters of exhibition space, visitors can experience up-close the culture, the life, the development of the landscape and the great...
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SILESIAN PLACES OF REMEMBRANCE - THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF HAUS SCHLESIEN
Eight thematic modules, around 300 objects on 300 square metres, 15 interactive media and nine hands-on stations and two audio tours - the exhibition presentation in HAUS SCHLESIEN is as diverse as the region of Silesia itself. On the basis of selected Silesian Silesian places of remembrance, the...
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Scientific Library in the Sudeten German House
The library contains the largest specialized collection on the history of the Czech Lands, Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the whole of Germany and Western Europe
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Scientific lectures
Cross-border research: Literature and culture of the Czech lands are still characterized by the coexistence of different linguistic cultures. This calls for a comparative, transcultural approach. The lecture series brings Germanists, Bohemians and cultural scientists from the Czech Republic, Austria...
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