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300 Years Immanuel Kant (1724–2024)
2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the birthday of Immanuel Kant, the philosopher from Königsberg. In preparation for the Year of Kant 2024, the BKGE is coordinating and organizing numerous activities around the topic of Immanuel Kant
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Archive Treasure of the Month
Between 2007 and 2018, the Document Collection of the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (DSHI) presented each month a particularly attractive or interesting archival document of general historical or political significance, as well as personal documents or...
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Biography
Bettina Bouresh
"I’m a typical post-war child," says Bettina Bouresh. Born in 1950, she grew up burdened with German guilt and the traumas of her mother's family, who had lived in Allenstein until 1945. She herself felt homeless for a long time. Until one day she found her place: in Masuria. Here she found a home – and in Steinort Palace her life’s work. Today she is vice-chairwoman of the Lehndorff Society.
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Collection of the East Prussian State museum with a Baltic German Department
The East Prussian State Museum (OL) is the central collection point for cultural heritage objects from East Prussia and the Baltic States, but its library also houses over 15,000 relevant titles relating to the area.
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Commemorating Copernicus
Since the 19th century, numerous Copernicus monuments have been built around the world. Even today, new sites of remembrance honoring the astronomer emerge, especially in Poland. Each site has a unique agenda, narrative, and background.
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Cultural office
Cultural Office for the Bohemian Lands
Are you interested in the culture and literature that connects Germans and Czechs today? Are you keen to explore multifaceted events that arouse curiosity about Germany’s common history with its eastern neighbor, the Czech Republic? You will receive invitations by newsletter or, on request, the...
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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...
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Emigration, Forced Migration, and the Iron Curtain
Eastern Europe has been a "migration hot spot" since the late 19th century: Initially as a core area of overseas emigration, then of ethnic forced migration after the end of World War I. Emigration during the Cold War was nearly impossible. Today, many countries in this region benefit from the European Union's Freedom of Movement policy.
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Erweiterung um eine Abteilung „Immanuel Kant, Königsberg und die deutsche Aufklärung" ("Creating a New Department: 'Immanuel Kant, Königsberg and the German Enlightenment'")
In 2024, the 300th birthday of the most important philosopher of modern times, Immanuel Kant, will be commemorated worldwide. Kant, who came from Königsberg and never left East Prussia, is to receive permanent museum recognition for the first time in Germany with the creation of a special...
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Europe in miniature?
Buko...? - what was it again? Bukovina is not a familiar name to you? Don't worry, because the permanent exhibition of the Bukovina Institute at the university will introduce you to this diverse and fascinating yet little-known region. Learn more about the history of this historic cultural landscape...
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Fernweh ("Yearning for afar")
In the exhibition "Fernweh" ("Yearning for Afar") you can let your imagination take wing and transport you to far-off places. Here you will discover sun, beaches and the ocean, but also unknown and mysterious landscapes. As the subtitle “From Jugendstil to contemporary photography” promises,...
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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...
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Interview series
Im Fokus. Interviews zu Böhmen
Who is aware, today, that the roots of prominent personalities such as SPD politician Renate Schmidt or ice hockey legend Erich Kühnhackl lie in Bohemia? Cultural officer Wolfgang Schwarz seeks to elicit previously unknown facts from them in a conversation.
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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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Important locations in Copernicus’ life
Nicolaus Copernicus rose to fame due to his interest in the stars. But where did he spend his life on Earth? Most of his sites of activity are found in present-day Poland, and many of them also relate to German history.
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In Copernicus’ name
These days, there are a whole host of organizations in Poland, Germany, and the USA bearing the name Copernicus. Although they all relate to the same historical person, they have quite different goals.
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Indexing the archival records of four East Prussian county and town communities
The cataloguing of archive material is, needless to say, one of the most important tasks of any archive. Since the Cultural Center of East Prussia, in addition to many other valuables, also holds the archives of the Homeland Association of East Prussia, a new home was naturally offered to the...
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Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI)
The research focuses on Jewish life and experience, viewed in the context of non-Jewish surroundings from the Early Modern Period to the present. With a view to Central and Eastern Europe as well as the areas of emigration (USA, Palestine/Israel), the focus is on questions of political participation...
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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.
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My path to our Germans
'Our Germans' is what Czechs often call the Sudeten Germans. Both ethnic groups lived together in the Czech Lands for centuries until Nazi terror and expulsions brought this to an end. What personal experiences do Czech intellectuals associate with their former compatriots?
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