Research project Die Deutschen in und aus der Dobrudscha im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (“The Germans in and from the Dobruja in the 19th and 20th Century”) For almost 100 years Germans settled in the Romanian Dobruja, which initially belonged to the Ottoman Empire and, after the Berlin Congress, to Romania. From the 1840s until the National Socialist “resettlement” in the fall of 1940, these German-speaking settlers, most of whom had immigrated...
Blog Die Geschichten hinter den Objekten ("The stories behind the objects") In the blog “Die Geschichten hinter den Objekten” ("The stories behind the objects"), HAUS SCHLESIEN brings to light Silesian life stories from the time between the German Empire and the People's Republic. Here you can discover, for example, how previously commonplace objects used in daily life...
Series DigiOst DigiOst is a digital publication series on the history of Eastern Europe. It offers high-quality and up-to-date anthologies and conference proceedings, source editions, and monographs. On request, copies can be ordered via a print-on-demand process.
Digitalization project Digital Danube Swabian Image Archive The Danube Swabian Central Museum researches, digitizes and publishes over 1,000 historical photographs from its collection.
Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe The Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe e. V. (DiFMOE) has been dedicated to researching and digitally indexing historical sources from Eastern Europe and operates a digital, freely accessible online library for their publication.
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Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE) has been operating a digital, freely accessible specialized library with historical documents on Eastern Europe since 2008.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...
Background Article Displaced Persons – Between Liberation and a New Beginning Over eleven million people were considered displaced persons in 1945. Those who did not return immediately lived mainly in DP camps in the western occupation zones of Germany and Austria. How did they experience this time of uncertainty?
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...
Index Documentation of the home collections in Germany The Federal Republic of Germany is home to several hundred centers of local history or “Heimatsammlungen” (homeland collections), which were founded after the end of the Second World War by refugees, displaced persons and ethnic German repatriates. The documentation of the Federal Institute for...
Oral history project | Film project Donauschwäbische Zeitzeugen erzählen ("Danube Swabian eyewitnesses tell their stories") Multiethnic coexistence, war and loss are formative experiences that affect a whole generation of people and can have a lasting impact on their children and grandchildren. The four-part film series "Donauschwäbische Zeitzeugen erzählen" ("Danube Swabian eyewitnesses tell their stories") gives...
Double-checked Multiperspectivity enriches discussions enormously. How do representatives of the German-Czech network view current developments in the mutual relations between the two countries? The Cultural Advisor for the Bohemian Lands poses this thought-provoking question.
Object Story Edina's beach bag A blue and white striped bag with white handles - at first glance an inconspicuous beach bag. But it tells the moving story of the then 33-year-old Edina Rizvanović's flight from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina to Ulm.
series of seminars Educational partnership between the Martin Opitz Library and Mulvany Vocational College in Herne The Martin Opitz Library teaches media competence. Both successful information research and a critical approach to media are becoming increasingly important, whether at school, university, work or in private life. In order to impart these skills successfully and practically, the MOB cooperates...
Document repository Electronic Reading Room (eL) of the Martin Opitz Library Would you like to browse selected holdings of the Martin Opitz Library from your own PC? In the MOB's electronic reading room, you will find thousands of digitized documents – from historical address books to monographs, journals and much more.
Virtuelle Ausstellung Ernst Friedrich Zwirner Er hatte eine Bauzeit von mehr als 600 Jahren, ist knapp 157 Meter hoch und zieht heutzutage mehr als 6 Millionen Besucher jährlich an: Der Kölner Dom. Die Vollendung des monumentalen Stadtwahrzeichens im 19. Jahrhundert ist zu guter Letzt auch Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, einem orts- und...
Infrastructure project | Exhibition project 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...
Permanent exhibition 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...
International cooperation European Network Remembrance and Solidarity The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) is an international initiative whose aim is to research, document and disseminate knowledge about Europe’s 20th-century history and ways in which it is commemorated. ENRS promotes dialogue about the European culture of remembrance with a...
series of lectures Experiencing Silesia “Experiencing Silesia” – this isn’t just the title, but also the goal of the event series, for which, every year, a new, diverse program is created by the Cultural Office for Silesia.
Authors Reading Exquisite East Prussia “Erlesenes Ostpreußen” (Exquisite East Prussia) is the name of the new video series by the Cultural Advisor for East Prussia and the Baltic States. The videos present literature from and about East Prussia und will be made available on the Youtube channel of the East Prussian State Museum.
