Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
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Herausgegeben von: Bundesinstitut für Ku ltur und Geschichte des östlichen Europa
The Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (JKGE) is an interdisciplinary and cross-epochal forum for current research on the culture and history of Eastern Europe. The annually published thematic issues examine the interconnections between the different cultures, religions, languages, nations and states in Eastern Europe from historical, art historical, ethnological, literary and linguistic perspectives. The focus is particularly on the Germans who used to live there, and in some cases still do.
The JKGE is the continuation of the Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe published from 1993 to 2018. Since 2020, it is published once a year by DeGruyter/Oldenbourg as an open access online journal which is also available as print on demand.
The interdisciplinary journal is published by the BKGE in conjunction with an editorial board. The individual issues are published as thematic volumes with changing focal points, as conceived by a series of different editors. The contributions are reviewed through a double blind peer review process.
Editors:
Prof. Dr. Mirosława Czarnecka, University of Wrocław, Poland
PD Dr. David Feest, Northeast Institute (Institute for the Culture and History of Germans in Northeast Europe – IKGN e. V.), Lüneburg, Germany
Prof. em. Dr. Ladislau Gyémánt, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Prof. Dr. Kornelia Kończal, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christopher Long, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Silke Pasewalck, Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), Oldenburg, Germany
Dr. Sarah Scholl-Schneider, Centre for Civic Education of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, Germany
PD Dr. Beate Störtkuhl, Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), Oldenburg, Germany
Dr. Ágnes Tóth, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weber, Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), Oldenburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Zientara, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Coordination: Dr. Silke Pasewalck
Editing: PD Dr. Stephan Scholz
Contact: redaktion@bkge.uni-oldenburg.de
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OAPEN – Open Access Publishing in European Networks
DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books
SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository (Vol. 1)
Supplementary Materials
Topics
Is there racism against people from Eastern Europe in Germany, Western Europe or North America? Despite the global anti-racist mobilisation of recent years, this question has not usually been asked. This omission is surprising given the long historical tradition of devaluing ‚the East‘. In recent years, the picture has changed noticeably. In Germany, young activists are talking about anti-Slavism and call for their experiences to be recognised. In literature, authors of Eastern European origin write about their arrival and growing up in Germany and the racism they experienced. Painful experiences that were often silenced thus become sayable. At the same time, there are repeated controversial discussions about whether people from Eastern Europe can experience ‚racism‘ at all as ‚whites‘. This issue takes stock of the field of research and at the same time looks at future perspectives.
This special issue scrutinises the migration and diasporic experiences of people from the former Soviet Union. It explores the intricate histories of migrants, their current realities, and future aspirations, all influenced by a tapestry of spatio-temporal orders and their interrelations. Specifically, the collection investigates the relevance of "(post-)socialism" in interpreting the nuanced shifts within diasporic life. It explores how connections are forged, and disconnections are navigated, and how past experiences are continually fused and re-configured, thereby shaping the post-migration context. By integrating diverse perspectives across various locales and time periods, this issue offers a comprehensive analysis of the complexities in both individual narratives and broader community dynamics.
In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, there was a widespread and substantial German-language press in many parts of Eastern Europe. Newspapers and magazines were often published in pluricultural regions. Multilingualism was not only part of everyday life, its nature was also a matter of interest to the press. This issue brings together contributions that explore the phenomenon of multilingualism in the German-language press with different spatial focuses: from the Vormärz to the eve of the Second World War. This is examined from a variety of perspectives including linguistics and literary studies, as well as history and cultural studies. The use of different languages in journalism and advertising will be examined, as well as the methods and the goals of different language practices; such as those between coexistence and competition, and between the mediation and demarcation of different nationalities and identities.
The socialist states of Eastern Europe closely and suspiciously observed the expellee organizations that had emerged in the Federal Republic since the late 1940s, including their political activities. This volume, for the first time, takes a look at this ‘enemy and foreign observation’ by the intelligence services, using various case studies from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. It examines what the secret services knew about the expellee functionaries and their past, and asks what information was collected and how it was used. In addition, the role of the Germans who remained in the socialist states and the Aussiedler, who came to the FRG and formed a link between the expellees and their ‘old homeland’, is examined. The volume thus makes an important contribution to research on the perception of the expellee organizations in the socialist states, on the work of the security services, and on bilateral contacts during the ‘Cold War’.
During WW2, the National Socialists established detailed assessments of, and plans for, the whole region of Eastern Europe. This volume presents the findings of research into the stakeholders, practices and techniques deployed in architecture, spatial and urban planning. In particular, it scrutinizes the ‘measurablility’ of the Nazi occupation regime and the options available in terms of documentation and presentation with digital analytical tools. These tools provide a qualitative extension of the current state of knowledge; in addition, quantitative criteria are subjected to computer aided analyses that offer substantiation to statements that are both wide-ranging and well supported. The volume explores the extent to which the Digital Humanities propose new and innovative techniques with which architectural historians can re-assess the aims and practices of the Nazi regime in Eastern Europe.
The first issue of the newly designed Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (JKGE) addresses the specific conditions of education practices and education processes in the era of Enlightenment in Eastern Europe and its pluricultural and multilingual regions. Research on the Enlightenment period and on ‘entangled history’ has recently gained a more global focus, and this has foregrounded questions of transfer, translation, networking, interferences, asynchronicity and ambivalence. Were educational practices guided by rationality or by a spirit of colonialism, or somewhere along the spectrum between these? To what extent did the structures of authority exercise an influence on educational initiatives and practices, especially those in popular education? How did the multiconfessional context of Eastern Europe affect the transition from religious education to strongly rational ways of organizing knowledge and education? Researchers from Germany, Estonia, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary focus on aspects of education practices in politics, science, education, church life and culture.
