series: Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe

Edited by: Herausgegeben von: Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte des östlichen Europa (BKGE)

ISSN: 2702-2455

e-ISSN 2702-2463

Previous: The Annals of the Federal Institute for the Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (1993–2018).

Overview
Volumes

Double-blind peer reviewed & Open Access

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. 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

Supplementary Materials

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Topics

book: Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutschsprachigen Presse des östlichen Europas / Multilingualism in the German-Language Press in Eastern Europe

Book Open Access 2023

Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutschsprachigen Presse des östlichen Europas / Multilingualism in the German-Language Press in Eastern Europe

Jörg Meier

Volume 4 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111078809
ISBN:: 9783111078809
ISBN:: 9783111079011
ISBN:: 9783111078281
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: East Central Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2022

Unter Beobachtung | Under Surveillance

Vertriebenenverbände im Blick der sozialistischen Sicherheitsdienste | The Monitoring of Expellee Organizations by the Socialist Security Services

Stefan Lehr

Volume 3 in this series

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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’.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795288
ISBN:: 9783110795288
ISBN:: 9783110795332
ISBN:: 9783110795226
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Cold War
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: East Central Europe
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Migration History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2021

Raumkonstruktionen | Spatial Constructions

Digital Humanities und die 'Messbarkeit' des NS-Regimes | The Digital Humanities And The 'Measurability' Of The Nazi Regime

Richard Němec

Volume 2 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759891
ISBN:: 9783110759891
ISBN:: 9783110760057
ISBN:: 9783110746068
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: East Central Europe
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Digital History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2020

Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment

Silke Pasewalck, Matthias Weber

Volume 1 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671827
ISBN:: 9783110671827
ISBN:: 9783110671919
ISBN:: 9783110671674
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: East Central Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg