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Research fellowship | Support of conferences

Herder Fellowship for experts in historical research on East Central Europe

A research fellowship for proven experts who can carry out their research project for up to three months directly at the Herder Institute for Research on Eastern Central Europe in Marburg.
Scientific infrastructure facility | Research institute

Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe

The Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association (HI) is one of the central non-university infrastructure and research institutions for historical research on East Central Europe in Germany.
Holding

Holdings and collections of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

The scientific library of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation includes German and foreign language books, newspapers and magazines as well as digital media on the topic of forced migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries in Europe. In addition to a contemporary...

Immanuel Kant Scholarship (At the moment no current tender!)

Are you planning a doctoral thesis related to Eastern Europe? Do you find transnational and transcultural aspects particularly exciting and would you like to include a focus on the history of the German (speaking) population? Then the Immanuel Kant Scholarship could be interesting for you.
Library | Archive

Martin Opitz Library

The Martin Opitz Library (MOB) 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...
Research institute

Nordost-Institut

The research of the Nordost-Institut centers around the history and culture of the countries from Poland to Russia. The focus is on the manifold interconnections of these regions with German history. Therefore, questions of relationship and regional history are pursued as well as aspects of minority...
Library holdings

Northeast Library

The Northeast Library is a specialized scientific library that deals with the regional history of northern East Central Europe and the history of the Russian Germans. The total holdings comprise approximately 170,000 media units. It forms part of the library network of the University of Hamburg.
Online library catalog

Online Catalog of the Martin Opitz Library

The online catalog of the Martin Opitz Library is based on the software VuFind and allows you to search the library's entire book and journal holdings, a constantly growing sub-collection of the archive and numerous external datasets. If you would like to search this institution's extensive...
Online publication

Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe

Scientific, reliable and informative: this is what you can expect from the online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe of the BKGE.
Series

Potsdamer Bibliothek östliches Europa (Potsdam Library Eastern Europe)

Literary tours through Gdansk, the so-called "Bohemian Spa Triangle" or the region of Upper Silesia. Cultural tours through Neumark and Transylvania. Richly illustrated non-fiction books about the Danube Swabians, the Bessarabian or the Dobruge Germans.
Series

Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa

The BKGE's publication series is aimed both at the specialist scientific community and at a scientifically interested public.
Series

Schriftenreihe des Westpreußischen Landesmuseums (Publication series of the Westpreußisches Landesmuseum)

The publication series of the West Prussian State Museum comprises various publications on the history and culture of West Prussia.
Background article

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.
Object story

Symbols of enduring hope

When they fled, many refugees hoped that they would be able to return later. A bunch of keys from Marienburg, which has been preserved in the West Prussian State Museum, bears witness to this hope.
Virtual tour

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.
Library holdings

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.
Museum

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...
Workshop

Where from and where to? Stories of migration, past and present

Where from and where to? Stories of Migration, past and present, at the state museum. The Westpreußisches Landesmuseum (West Prussian State Museum) offers extracurricular museum education for young adults. The program is aimed at young people who, through the example of West Prussia, can learn...
Permanent exhibition

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...