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Papierówki – “Paper Apples”
A summer apple. The first to ripen. In Polish, it is called "papierówka", in German "Papierapfel" (paper apple). It once grew almost everywhere in Masuria and Warmia, including in the garden of Stefan Tymiec's grandmother, Gertrud. "It smelled and tasted delicious," he remembers. "And that yellow!" For his 60th birthday, he brought seedlings from a Polish nursery all the way to Wuppertal.
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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...
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Staesz Pfefferkuchen Spices!
The name alone is evocative of family traditions. It carries the promise of delicious cakes and biscuits, particularly in the run-up to Christmas.
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The Life of the Baltic Nobility - Manor Houses in Estonia and Latvia
Magnificent chandeliers, ornamental stuccoed ceilings, and salons filled with music – was aristocratic life in the Baltic really so splendid?
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The National Opera in Central and Eastern Europe
Today it is the passion of a select few music lovers – but in the 19th century, opera was a major social event, an expression of national consciousness, or even the musical declaration of national independence. But how did this happen? What role does the national opera play in Eastern Europe? And what makes an opera a national opera?
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Virtual tours through the permanent exhibition of the West Prussian State Museum
Since 2021, the museum's permanent exhibition can also be viewed online. For this purpose, 360° tours were developed for various exhibition areas.
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West Prussia Library
With over 22,000 titles, the West Prussia Library offers a wide collection covering the cultural, economic and social history of former West Prussia.
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Westpreußisches Landesmuseum
The West Prussian Regional Museum is the only museum institution in Germany that presents the history and culture of historical West Prussia. The museum houses various collections and its own archive with diverse holdings. Selected topics convey a vivid picture of a cultural region shaped for over...
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Wife Gone, Money of Course Too
An important stop for the young Richard Wagner is Riga at the end of the 1830s. However, there are no artistic reasons that lead the upcoming composer to the northeast of Europe.
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Worlds of Maps – Worlds of Texts
After political independence came Nazi occupation and then communism: the cities of East Central Europe were affected by numerous upheavals and caesuras in the middle of the 20th century. War and destruction, changing administrations, the subsequent reconstruction and new, ideologically shaped urban...