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Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
The Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) advises and supports the Federal Government in all matters concerning the research, presentation and development of German culture and history in Eastern Europe.
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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...
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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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IKGS-Buchreihe (“IKGS book series”)
Anyone with a deep interest in the Danube-Carpathian region and all its aspects should consider taking a look at the book series of the IKGS. Its monographies and anthologies set the stage for an international dialog about German culture and history, art, and literature in, from, and about East,...
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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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Intercultural project
Inclusion?! Dealing with Disability in History and Today in Germany and Ukraine
What do we mean when we talk about "disability"? What does inclusion mean and how can it be put into living practice? And how did people deal with it in the past? Young students from Ukraine and Germany discussed these and other questions in this project of the Bukovina Institute, contributing their...
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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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International DZM Forum "Migration Connects"
"Migration Connects" is both the name and the motto of the International DZM Forum. Here, people with international roots can meet, work together with the Danube Swabian Museum (DZM), and help to shape it. In doing so, they also help to make Ulm a little more colorful.
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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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Jewish Postcard Publishers and the Imagery of the Urban
In numerous cities across eastern Europe, Jewish publishers enjoyed notable success on 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.
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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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Preservation Project
Paper Bridges
The project “Paper Bridges” at the Institute for German Culture and History in South-East Europe (IKGS) involved the treatment and conservation of six shelf-meters of original periodicals to ensure their permanent preservation. These German newspapers from Romania form bridges between past and...
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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.
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Preservation Project
Protection of cultural assets and cultural heritage in Bukovina Languages, Denominations and Cultures - City and Countryside in Interaction
The project aims at digitally recording the former archbishop's residence of the Orthodox Metropolitan of Bukovina and Dalmatia, today's main building complex of the Yuri Fedkovych University of Chernivtsi (UNESCO World Heritage Site), the equipment of the Museum of the University of Chernivtsi...
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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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Samuel Fränkel
The Berlin Jew Samuel Fränkel (1773-1833) settled in Warsaw in 1798 as a representative of a large bank. Within a few years and across numerous political breaks, Fränkel rose to become the most important banker in a divided Poland. In doing so, Fränkel always successfully drew on his transnational connections to Jews and non-Jews in Prussia, Austria and Russia.
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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.
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Digitalization project
Surveying the ghettos Grodno - Chernivtsi - Chișinău
Together with civil society multipliers, historians and IT experts, students from Ukraine, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova are conducting several workshops and micro-projects on the history of the ghettos of Grodno, Chernivtsi and Chișinău.
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The Lehndorff Hunting Lodge
This charming wooden building was once the hunting lodge of the Lehndorff counts. Here they would gather after the great hunts to feast and celebrate together. Later, the building was leased to an innkeeper. After 1945 it was used as a storehouse, and for a while it served as a village store. It gradually fell into disrepair until one day it caught the eye of the young businessman Alexander Potocki.
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Research project
The National Language of the Jews or a Jewish Language?
Is there such a thing as a Jewish national language and if so, what is it? Yiddish, Hebrew or both? The research project, which is being developed in cooperation with the Bukovina Institute, is dedicated to the question of the Jewish language and brings together a number of research discourses.
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