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Das Südostdeutsche Kulturwerk (SOKW) in München (“The Southeast German Cultural Society [SOKW] in Munich”)

How does an institute deal with its 70th anniversary when, from today's point of view, its founding involved a number of problematic aspects? This is the question that the Institute for German Culture and History in South-eastern Europe (IKGS) is currently grappling with. In this research project,...
Research project

Deutsche Minderheiten im östlichen Europa (German minorities in Eastern Europe)

Why was the political representative of the German minority in Romania elected President in 2014? How do the German minorities in Russia and Poland influence Berlin's relations with Moscow and Warsaw? The research and documentation project " Deutsche Minderheiten im östlichen Europa” (German...
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...
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Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE) has been operating a digital, freely accessible specialized library with historical documents on Eastern Europe since 2008.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...
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...
Object story

Down the Danube in the Ulm Box

A flat-bottomed wooden boat with a hut on top, sides painted in black and white stripes, and two very long oars at the front and back – that's an "Ulmer Schachtel" (Ulm box). This vessel, which seems curious today, was once an important means of transport on the Danube.
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...
Museum tour

Educational programs

Did you know that very special friendship bracelets were given as gifts in Transylvania over a hundred years ago? You can learn this and much more at the Transylvanian Museum, which offers educational programs for specific target groups.
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.
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...
Research project

From the poison cabinets of communism

What does the content of a surveillance file actually say about the communist era and its actors? Can victim and perpetrator victim and perpetrator roles always be clearly assigned? Where does the reappraisal for the good of society end and where does personal personal vendettas begin?
Editing project

Gedichte und Briefe aus der Verbannung (“Poems and Letters from Exile”)

In this edition project, all the poems Wolf von Aichelburg wrote in exile will be collected, along with precise details of how they were recorded and passed down, and accompanied, where appropriate, by the author's own statements or other contextualizing information.
Preservation Project

Gelesen, geliebt, gesichert (“Read, Loved, Protected”)

Preserving books for posterity takes time, expertise and financial resources. To this end, the third-party funded project “Gelesen, geliebt, gesichert” (“Read, Loved, Protected”) was launched at the Institute for German Culture and History in South-East Europe (IKGS): It ensures the...

HEIMATFREMDE

The question of how to deal with strangers and the foreign, but also with one's own sense of being alien, is at the center of many public discussions. Also for young people, the issue of how these matters are handled in their immediate, everyday environment is by no means an insignificant one. What...
Background article

Habsburg Bukovina – a Colonized Entity?

Gregor von Rezzori achieved fame for his fictionalized representations of bygone Czernowitz. In his memoir, he reveals perspectives on postcolonial life there after the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
Journal

Halbjahresschrift für Geschichte und Zeitgeschehen in Zentral- und Südosteuropa (“Biannual Journal for History and Culture in Central and South East Europe”)

Now with a new publisher, the "Halbjahresschrift" (“Biannual Journal for History and Culture in Central and South East Europe”, HJS) is back! But its purpose remains the same: The systematic and academic examination of authoritarian regimes in Central and South East Europe and their...
Background article

Hanklich

The cultural diversity of Transylvania is reflected in the culinary culture of the region, which has been shaped by extremely varied influences, diverse ethnic groups, and their eventful histories. An exciting example of this is a flat, yeast cake called hanklich.
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