Spaces – Borders – Projections

The new thematic focus

Spaces and borders, but also their projections and constructions, are fundamental for the political history of Eastern Europe as well as for human interaction. The thematic focus shows the significance and function of space- and border-related debates and discourses in Eastern Europe and presents prominent case studies.

 

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Editorial

Spaces - Borders - Projections

Editorial
Since the beginning of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, questions around spaces and borders have increasingly appeared on the agenda of Eastern European studies. The contributions to the Copernico Portal’s newest area of focus demonstrate the important role played...
Peter Haslinger
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Malbork Castle, the Knights of the Teutonic Order and the "German East" in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Changes through time and space
How far did the “German East” extend? With recourse to Malbork Castle, which was “rediscovered” around 1800, German historical policy in the 19th and 20th centuries found very different answers to this question.
Daniel Benedikt Stienen
Background article

"Wait till the Scots come!"

Scots in early modern Gdansk
This old Prussian proverb exhorts us to be patient and wait for the right opportunity. But what does this have to do with the far north of Great Britain? The answer leads us to Gdansk. In the early modern era, the port city attracted numerous merchant ships from the Baltic region and beyond. Some...
Marc Banditt
Background article

Capital of the Saxon Garden Baroque on the Vistula River

Warsaw as the residence city of the Saxon electors and the kings of Poland
The cartographic drawings of Warsaw from 1730-1762, preserved in the Dresden and Warsaw collections, illustrate the architectural garden city where the artistic ideas of the Saxon Baroque were crystallized. These exceptional documents bear testimony to a golden era where the urban landscape and...
Łukasz Przybylak
Marie Curie auf dem Nobelpreisfoto von 1911

Marie Curie (1867–1934)

Natural Scientist, Double Nobel Laureate, Genius

Marie Curie is one of the most famous and important people in the history of science. She was a natural scientist, a double Nobel Prize winner, and made a name for herself primarily with her work on radioactivity. She was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, which was then part of the Russian Empire. The video gives an overview of the main cornerstones of her biography and some of her outstanding achievements.

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From our blog

Call for Contributions: Childhood and Youth in Eastern Europe

Copernico editorial team

“Boys, boys, as you came, so you will leave here”

The beginning of the war and the Nazi occupation of Kharkiv in memoirs and oral histories
Gelinada Grinchenko

Data Are Never Neutral

The Impact of Russia's War Against Ukraine on Digital Source Criticism
Peter Haslinger

Creating a Space of Freedom

The Museum of the Revolution of Dignity in Kyjiw
Elżbieta Olzacka

Backup Ukraine

Sylvia Lorico

ICOM4Ukraine on the protection of cultural property in wartime

An interview with ICOM Germany President Beate Reifenscheid-Ronnisch
Copernico editorial team

Our thematic focus sections

Kopernikus#550

Eine farblich bearbeitete Graphik von Nikolaus Kopernikus
The “Copernican Revolution” represents an immensely important new finding in the history of humankind. The notion that the Earth orbits the Sun, and thus that the Earth was no longer to be regarded as the center of the Universe, broke with the prevailing worldview and was to have...

Culinary Cultures in Eastern Europe

Fotografie dreier aus Flaschen trinkender Personen vor freiem Himmel
Few topics are as multifaceted as the subject of food and drink. It ties individual sensory experience and culinary satisfaction to practically every other aspect of human life. It is also an important, but often overlooked, part of our shared cultural legacy. Eating and drinking, therefore, to a...

Migration (hi)stories

A photo of refugee children from 1946 edited with color overlays
European history is a history of migrations. This is especially true for the history of Eastern Europe. Join us in an exploration of this multifaceted and emotionally charged topic, which still polarizes people to this day. Spanning centuries and a vast array of themes, these stories extend from the...

"Sleeps a song in all things" - Music Cultures

A photo of two trombonists in a military camp, edited with color overlays, circa 1945
“Sleeps a song in all things”? Music is and always has been many things: a means of entertainment or elitist self-expression, an obvious or hidden bridge between cultures, a propaganda weapon or a symbol of cultural independence. And music and sound are part of historical, submerged...

Migration stories around Steinort / Sztynort Castle

Biographies of people, places and things

17 portraits that tell of the fate of the last lord of the castle, Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff, his family and the villagers - before and after 1945. And of enthusiasts who are bringing the dilapidated castle back to life.

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Luftbildaufnahme des Schlosses Steinort