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Art Forum East German Gallery ("Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie")
The Art Forum East German Gallery (KOG) is an art museum with an outstanding collection ranging from Romanticism to Modernism and a unique focus on art creation in Eastern Europe. Here you can discover paintings, sculptures and graphic art by German artists who lived and worked in the region...
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Collections and holdings of the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie
With its collection and in-house art library, including an artists’ archive, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (KOG) pursues a unique mission within Germany: to preserve, communicate and research the artistic heritage of the formerly German-influenced areas in Central, Eastern and Southeastern...
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Contemporary witness finding aid at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE)
Contemporary eyewitness reports like life and family stories, diaries and reports of escapes, travel notes and interviews are all important doors into the past. But where can I find contemporary eyewitness reports?
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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Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE) has been operating a digital, freely accessible specialized library with historical documents on Eastern Europe since 2008.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...
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Ernst Stewner. A German photographer in Poland / Niemiecki fotograf Polski
This collection of works by the eminent photographer Ernst Stewner offers a rare glimpse of life in Poland in the 1930s and early 1940s. The exhibition features a selection from his estate, which is now housed at the Herder Institute in Marburg.
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In the Enemy's Viewfinder – German photo-journalists in occupied Warsaw 1939-1945
During World War II, around 700,000 residents of Warsaw lost their lives. Almost the whole Jewish population was murdered. By 1945, Warsaw had become a ruined and almost deserted city. The photographs on show come from observations through the “Enemy's Viewfinder”, that is, through the lenses of...
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Liberation from forced labor and the search for a new home
21-year-old Janina Jagodzińska describes the arduous beginning of 1945 in Poland's new western territories.
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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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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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Research Infrastructure for Art-historical Monuments in East Central Europe
The portal is an interactive art-historical research infrastructure with a specific focus on the – until now insufficiently acknowledged – achievements of art production in East Central Europe, and presents their complex interrelationships online with the application of digital methods and...
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Research contributions – Contemporary witness reports on the culture and history of the Germans in Eastern Europe in the 20th century
Contemporary eyewitness accounts are generally considered to be a particularly authentic way to access history. They make history comprehensible, even 'alive'. But is this really true? Aren't eyewitness accounts in their subjectivity, formedness and incompleteness rather a problematic...
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Schlesien im Spiegel der Geschichte ("Silesia in the mirror of history")
Silesia: a varied landscape and a heterogeneous society with a rich culture and history. HAUS SCHLESIEN's interactive online portal "Schlesien im Spiegel der Geschichte" ("Silesia in the Mirror of History") invites you on a rich journey of discovery. Here you can follow traces of Silesian culture,...
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The Determining Gaze. Images of Jewish Life in Postwar Poland
Self-determination and violence, mourning and new beginnings, reconstruction and emigration: the exhibition at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow in Leipzig sheds light on the ambivalence ofthe postwar years.
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Worlds of Maps – Worlds of Texts
After political independence came Nazi occupation and then communism: the cities of East Central Europe were affected by numerous upheavals and caesuras in the middle of the 20th century. War and destruction, changing administrations, the subsequent reconstruction and new, ideologically shaped urban...
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Writer-in-residence scholarship
Bavarians in Odessa, US soldiers in Pilsen, Bora in Rijeka: some of the phenomena that our city writers describe in their blogs. For five months, they live and work as ambassadors with notebooks and cameras in attractive cities in Eastern Europe.
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reisen. entdecken. sammeln. ("travel. discover. collect.")
Travel. Discover. Collect. These three words encapsulate the motivation behind Hans-Peter Riese’s collection, which brings together art from Eastern and Western Europe. A central focus of the the exhibition is concrete art from the former Czechoslovakia, dating from 1960s until the 1980s, while...