series of lectures Female German-speaking artists from in and around Eastern Europe This series organised by the Cultural Advisor for Transylvania informs about remarkable artistic accomplishments by women from Eastern Europe and brings their innovative work more into the public eye. Many of these artists found a new home in Germany in the course of the 20th century. Through their...
Scholarship Förderstipendien des Adalbert Stifter Vereins (Funded Fellowships of the Adalbert Stifter Association) Do you deal with the culture and history of Germans in the Czech Lands, especially their interaction with Czech culture and other cultures of this region? If so, you can apply for a scholarship of the Adalbert Stifter Association.
project funding General project funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in accordance with Section 96 of the Federal Expellees Act You would like to contribute to the research, preservation or communication of the German cultural heritage in Eastern Europe? The BKM supports, among other things, research projects, conferences, publications, theater, film and exhibition productions. It also supports projects to promote cultural...
Herder Fellowship for doctoral candidates and postdocs A scholarship for intensive source research in the scientific collections of the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Central Europe, an institute of the Leibniz Association.
Research fellowship | Support of conferences Herder Fellowship for experts in historical research on East Central Europe A research fellowship for proven experts who can carry out their research project for up to three months directly at the Herder Institute for Research on Eastern Central Europe in Marburg.
Scientific infrastructure facility | Research institute Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe The Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association (HI) is one of the central non-university infrastructure and research institutions for historical research on East Central Europe in Germany.
Holding 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...
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.
Background Article Jewish Postcard Publishers and the Imagery of the Urban In numerous cities across eastern Europe, Jewish publishers enjoyed notable success in the newly established postcard market. This article presents a socio-historical background of this topic and asks whether their social positioning influenced the depictions of the urban world they chose to feature on their postcards.
Editing project Josef Pfitzner und Hans Hirsch Source edition of the interwar correspondence between Prague-based historian and Nazi politician Josef Pfitzner and Hans Hirsch.
Reading series 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.
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...
Travelling exhibition Muses to the front! "Inter arma silent musae". This classical saying referring to the silence of the muses during wartime is based on the idea that the arts, as a product of the human spirit, should remain untouched by blood and violence. In reality, however, no battles were fought without writers and artists making...
series of lectures 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?
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...
Online library catalog Online library catalog of the Academic Library at the Sudetendeutsches Haus 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
Travelling exhibition Portraits from Bohemia and Moravia Whether artists, business managers, writers, scientists, politicians, folklorists, priests or journalists: who are these Sudeten German, Czech and Jewish women and men from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia who, after decades of political isolation and personal separation, had the courage to get...
Series Potsdamer Bibliothek östliches Europa (Potsdam Library Eastern Europe) Literary tours through Gdansk, the so-called "Bohemian Spa Triangle" or the region of Upper Silesia. Cultural tours through Neumark and Transylvania. Richly illustrated non-fiction books about the Danube Swabians, the Bessarabian or the Dobruge Germans.
Series Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa The BKGE's publication series is aimed both at the specialist scientific community and at a scientifically interested public.
Library catalog 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
