Series Arbeitsberichte ("Work Reports") Summaries and descriptions of individual holdings of the Martin Opitz Library are published in the Arbeitsberichte ("Work reports") series.
Archive | Collection | Museum Art Forum East German Gallery ("Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie") The Art Forum East German Gallery (KOG) is an art museum with an outstanding collection ranging from Romanticism to Modernism and a unique focus on art creation in Eastern Europe. Here you can discover paintings, sculptures and graphic art by German artists who lived and worked in the region...
Publication project | Conference project Bekenntnis und Diaspora (“Creed and diaspora”) The international workshop held in 2018 and the resulting anthology deal with the history of the German-speaking Reformation and with German-speaking Protestantism in the countries of Central and Southeast Europe.
Journal Brief aus dem HAUS SCHLESIEN ("Letter from HAUS SCHLESIEN") You want to find out more about Haus Schlesien, its events, topics and partners? The "Brief aus dem HAUS SCHLESIEN” ("Letter from House Silesia") will keep you up to date!
Research project Bucovina – Jewish Perspectives Until the Second World War, the historical Bukovina was known as an extremely multi-ethnic and multi-religious region. Nevertheless, the (German-speaking) public perception is often dominated by accounts published in the context of the "Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen" (Landsmannschaft of...
Research project Bukovina Germans: Inventions, Experiences and Narratives of an (imagined) Community The Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg has set itself the task of preserving the history of Bukovina and its inhabitants. Inextricably linked to this are narratives of relocation and settlement, of flight and expulsion, and of integration processes in the later Federal Republic, the...
Library holdings Collection of the Martin Opitz Library The Martin Opitz Library is the central library for German culture and history in Eastern Europe. It collects literature from all areas of East-Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The main focus of the collections is on the regions that today form western Poland and the Kaliningrad region –...
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...
Series Erinnerung und Biographie der Deutschen aus Polen ("Memories and Biographies of the Germans from Poland") With the outbreak of the Second World War, the centuries-long coexistence between a number of population groups in Poland came to an abrupt end. A series by the Martin Opitz Library provides insights into the lives of the local German-speaking population at the time, their memories, and their...
Permanent exhibition of the East Prussian state museum East Prussia: Formerly the easternmost German province, today it covers parts of Poland, Russia and Lithuania. With its family-friendly presentation style and high-quality, informative exhibits, the East Prussian state museum conveys as complete a picture as possible of the history, art, culture and...
Journal Spiegelungen (“Reflections”) Global developments, crises, and conflicts usually occur initially in local and regional areas, or are mirrored or delayed there. This is why the academic journal “Spiegelungen” (“Reflections”) of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeastern Europe (IKGS) directs its...
Online publication The Hoffmann family estate The Hoffman estate, which has been made accessible through a cooperation project between HAUS SCHLESIEN and the Martin Opitz Library, tells a family’s history, which spans a century and hundreds of kilometers, from Lower Silesia to the Rhine. More than 500 photographs, documents and memoirs of...
Unpacked In this permanent exhibition, pieces of luggage and the stories of their Russian-German owners, are "unpacked". These are stories are marked by repeated migrations, different homelands and identities – and are still today an important part of German society as a whole.
conference VOE Conferences Professional development, exchange and networking on a wide range of library science and cultural history topics – this is the aim of the VOE conferences, which are organized every two years by the Martin Opitz Library.
Online library catalog Verbundkatalog Östliches Europa ("Union Catalogue Eastern Europe", VOE) With more than 1,200,000 computerized titles from a network of over 30 libraries, collections and cultural and scientific institutions in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, the Verbundkatalog Östliches Europa ("Union Catalogue Eastern Europe", VOE) is a central instrument of the Martin Opitz...
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...
Series Writings ("Schriften") So, you want to know all the details? The "Schriften" series gives a detailed insight into the topics of the Martin Opitz Library.
