Webdocu "We, too, are stepping down from our role" Web documentary about the German Drama Theater in Temirtau and the Germans in the Soviet Union between staying and leaving.
Object Story "What you can carry on your own" On November 18 1944, nine-year-old Elsa Beck flees the Hungarian village of Máriakéménd with her mother and sister. Elsa's mother allows her to take with her what she can carry herself. Elsa decides to take her school suitcase. Today, it is held in the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm.
Special exhibition 1920 - A province disappears The First World War was an important caesura in the history of the province of West Prussia. The cornerstones negotiated in the Treaty of Versailles ended the integration of West Prussia into Prussian territory and incorporated the region into the newly founded Polish Second Republic. This led to...
Series of seminars Academia Silesia German, Polish, Silesian, European? Identity and memory are complex, constantly changing and not always easy to put into words. So it’s just as well that they become the focus of attention for one week as part of "Academia Silesia" at the HAUS SCHLESIEN!
Background Article Agata, Dorota, Iwona, Jolanta "What luck that we had this kindergarten!" All four say. That was in the early 1970s. Agata and Jolanta now live in Germany, Dorota and Iwona have stayed in Masuria. Lehndorff Castle, the "Pałac", was a place they all felt happy. In those stately rooms they had a feeling of security and comfort, they played among the old oaks, went swimming in the lake. It was a microcosm away from the adult world with its worries and traumas.
Research network Ambivalences of Sovietness The network explores the supposed paradox of the group collective experience of repression and everyday individual Soviet 'normalization' through the example of Russian Germans and Soviet Jews. The focus is particularly on the peripheries of the late Soviet Union. Secondly, the effects of these...
Series Arbeitsberichte ("Work Reports") Summaries and descriptions of individual holdings of the Martin Opitz Library are published in the Arbeitsberichte ("Work reports") series.
Background Article Are the Polish Housekeepers ‘willig und billig’? The European Union’s extension to the East in 2004 urged German filmmakers and audiences to look beyond Germany's border. However, traces of 19th-century colonial perceptions of Poland and its population were still hard to overlook.
Archive | Collection | Museum 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...
Research project Bank House Georg Scheel & Co. Do national issues and ethnicity play a role in finance, or does the financial world operate transnationally? This research project examines this question on the basis of the bank Georg Scheel & Co.
Publication project | Conference project Bekenntnis und Diaspora (“Creed and diaspora”) The international workshop held in 2018 and the resulting anthology deal with the history of the German-speaking Reformation and with German-speaking Protestantism in the countries of Central and Southeast Europe.
Infrastructure project | Consolidation project Bibliothekarische Fachkräfte zur Aufarbeitung von Desiderata und eL ("Librarians Working on the Processing of Desiderata and the Electronic Reading Room") The Martin Opitz Library is constantly expanding its stocks – both in terms of volume and by recording and making them available. In order to future-proof the associated processes and offerings, the institution has launched a new consolidation project.
Lecture series Bohemian Biographies Biographies are treasure troves of history. They often span several political eras and offer a personal perspective of history, shaped by individuals’ experiences of day to day life.
Conference Series Bohemian Forest Seminar Lectures, audience discussions, film screenings, concerts – entertaining and authoritative contributions to German-Czech cultural history are presented by the Cultural Advisor for the Bohemian Lands at various locations around the Bohemian Forest region.
Special exhibition Borders in Art Art knows no borders – or at least that is often claimed. This exhibition is dedicated to the theme “Borders in Art.” How do artists react to political events and possible restrictions? What influences do they process and what visual language do they develop? The exhibition focuses on three...
Travelling exhibition Born in Bohemia and Moravia – (un)known to us? Did you know that Ferdinand Porsche, constructor of the VW Beetle, came from Bohemia? Or that the author of "The Robber Hotzenplotz", Otfried Preußler, was born in 1923 in Reichenberg (Liberec) in what was then Czechoslovakia? The touring exhibition of the Cultural Office for the Bohemian Lands "In...
Journal Brief aus dem HAUS SCHLESIEN ("Letter from HAUS SCHLESIEN") You want to find out more about Haus Schlesien, its events, topics and partners? The "Brief aus dem HAUS SCHLESIEN” ("Letter from House Silesia") will keep you up to date!
Research project Bucovina – Jewish Perspectives Until the Second World War, the historical Bukovina was known as an extremely multi-ethnic and multi-religious region. Nevertheless, the (German-speaking) public perception is often dominated by accounts published in the context of the "Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen" (Landsmannschaft of...
Research project Bukovina Germans: Inventions, Experiences and Narratives of an (imagined) Community The Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg has set itself the task of preserving the history of Bukovina and its inhabitants. Inextricably linked to this are narratives of relocation and settlement, of flight and expulsion, and of integration processes in the later Federal Republic, the...
Research institute | Cultural center | Library | Archive Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg e.V. The Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg is an affiliated institute of the University of Augsburg and is dedicated to researching and communicating knowledge about the culture and history of the historical region of Bukovina as well as about Eastern, East Central and Southeastern Europe.
