Biography A diary as a companion during his escape in 1936 Fritz Lamm describes his escape from the Nazi persecution of Jews from Stettin via Switzerland and Austria to Prague in his previously unpublished diary.
Cultural institute | Research institute Adalbert Stifter Verein e.V. (Adalbert Stifter Association) The Adalbert Stifter Association cultivates and promotes German-Czech dialogue. It keeps the German-Bohemian cultural heritage alive and contributes to a better knowledge of the common culture and its European contexts.
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Biographical short film Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884): Czech Composer, National Hero Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) is one of the most important composers in the history of European music. His work is directly related to the Czech national movement and takes up motifs and themes of Czech mythology, history and topography in a variety of ways. Probably most famous to this day is the symphonic poem „Vltava“ („The Vltava“) from the cycle „My Fatherland“ (Czech: „Má vlast“), which is a spectacular musical translation of the course of the Vltava and the landscapes and towns it passes through. The video gives a brief overview of the life and work of the composer, who soon became a national hero.
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...
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Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE) has been operating a digital, freely accessible specialized library with historical documents on Eastern Europe since 2008.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...
Picture gallery Emil Orlik Emil Orlik (1870–1932) was one of the most famous and versatile Czech artists of the turn of the century. He was known primarily as a graphic artist and draftsman whose artistic work ranged between realism and art nouveau. His extensive oeuvre includes drawings of famous contemporary musicians and composers – whom Orlik also liked to show practicing their art.
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,...
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.
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.
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Biographical short film Kafka's language(s) July 3, 2023, marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of the writer Franz Kafka, and June 3, 2024, marks the 100th anniversary of his death. There are many good reasons to take a closer look at this outstanding figure in the history of German-language literature. But how did Kafka come to write in German in the first place? How did his multilingual environment in Prague and his own background influence his linguistic development? Let's hear what Franz Kafka himself has to say.
Object story Max Mannheimer and his silver-gray Tatra 87 Max Mannheimer (1920-2016) was an institution, as a painter and storyteller, as a Holocaust survivor and chairman of the Dachau Camp Community.
Background article Prague Coffeehouse Culture around 1900 It would be almost impossible to imagine the rich history of European café culture without the Vienna coffeehouses or the Paris cafés. By contrast, the Czech capital, Prague, tends to be more associated with the consumption of beer. Yet, in the history of that city, the tradition of the coffeehouse played a significant role in the development of public life, not least as a meeting point for its culturally diverse population.
series of lectures Scientific lectures Cross-border research: Literature and culture of the Czech lands are still characterized by the coexistence of different linguistic cultures. This calls for a comparative, transcultural approach. The lecture series brings Germanists, Bohemians and cultural scientists from the Czech Republic, Austria...
The Schaleks – a Central European Family / Schalekovi – středoevr+ opská rodina A war correspondent, an artistic witness of the Shoah, a resistance fighter and escape helper, a judge in the Hanussen trial and an activist of the German minority – all from one German-Czech-Jewish family.
Research project | Publication project Under surveillance This project focuses on the observation of displaced persons' organizations and functionaries by the socialist intelligence services.
Woher kommen wir, wohin gehen wir? ("Where do we come from, where are we going?") This permanent exhibition invites visitors to take part on a journey through 200 years of art and cultural history in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The exhibited works of art lead visitors through scenes of important historical events to important centers of art as well as to fictitious...
reisen. entdecken. sammeln. ("travel. discover. collect.") Travel. Discover. Collect. These three words encapsulate the motivation behind Hans-Peter Riese’s collection, which brings together art from Eastern and Western Europe. A central focus of the the exhibition is concrete art from the former Czechoslovakia, dating from 1960s until the 1980s, while...
