Background Article Polish Diaspora Goes TikTok Ethno-comedy is thriving on TikTok and Instagram. Characters like “Polish Papa” or the overly sensitive Polish mother are going viral. How are clichés of the Polish diaspora being shown and laughed about on TikTok — and what potential does this laughter hold for shaping identity?
Indexing project Projekt zur Tiefenerschließung des Teilnachlasses Max Herrmann-Neiße ("Project for the Deeper Indexing of the Partial Estate of Max Herrmann-Neisse") He was one of the best-known writers in Berlin during the Weimar period and later a prominent face of exile poetry – yet Max Herrmann-Neisse was largely forgotten after his early death. In order to remedy this, the Martin Opitz Library has opened up a partial estate for posterity, including...
