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Object story

A toolbox with a secret compartment

Many museum objects hold secrets: Not infrequently, their origin and maker, their age, or their various owners are hardly known, if at all. Often, one has to rely on assumptions and guesses. A toolbox from present-day Kazakhstan, however, is a bearer of secrets in more ways than one.
Research project

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

Enno Meyer (1913–1996)

As part of its biographical research, the BKGE is examining the multi-faceted life and work of Enno Meyer. The project will encompass a study on Enno Meyer's "47 Theses on the Representation of German-Polish Relations in History Teaching".
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...
Introduction

Jazz in the Eastern Bloc

More than just music: During the Cold War, jazz suddenly found itself between all fronts – at the same time, it served as a propaganda weapon, a symbol of freedom and a musical bridge between East and West.
Musical rendition

Six Celan Songs – 5. Nächtlich geschürzt

Michael Nyman (music), Paul Celan (text) / Mia Jakob (soprano), Denise Maurer (piano)
Musical rendition

Sonatine für Klavier (Sonatina for piano)

Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (music) / Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (piano)
Research project

The rural-urban migration of Russian Germans and other national minorities between 1953 and 1982

The 1960s and 70s in the Soviet Union were marked by an ideological aspiration to unify people's social reality. The goal was the completion of the "Soviet citizen". How did the Russian-German minority react to the propagated "Soviet way of life"?
Research project | Publication project

Under surveillance

This project focuses on the observation of displaced persons' organizations and functionaries by the socialist intelligence services.
Research project

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...