was celebrated in 1989 as the return of Central Europe. A liberal revolution restored democratic sovereignty and used the language of human rights, rights and constitutionalism. It was a belated ‘bureaucratic revolution’. This was also seen as a wage for the perseverance of a central European cultur...

during the 1980s, the concept of Mitteleuropa, a central Europe that does not belong to either the West or the East, has seen renewed support in Germany and Austria, but also in the central European countries in the Soviet sphere of influence. What are the possibilities to see this “englouti contine...

Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg (1861–65) war ein Konflikt von transatlantischen Ausmaßen. Auch für Mitteleuropa hatte er spürbare, bis jetzt nur wenig erforschte Konsequenzen. Patrick Gaul widmet sich den grenzüberschreitenden Auswirkungen dieses Krieges aus wirtschafts- und kulturhistorischen Blickw...

Die Arbeit nimmt sich vor, die sozialgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen des von Alfred Sperber schon 1930 angekündigten « Wunders », daß in der Bukowina « selbständig und losgelöst von jedem Zusammenhang mit demUrsprungsgebiet, ein Zweig der deutschen Sprache schöpferisch rege zu werden beginnt », mit...

Die sommerlichen Witterungsverhältnisse der Periode 1270–1400 sind mit Hilfe von radio-densitometrischen Daten und quellenkritisch evaluierten anthropogenen Aufzeichnungen rekonstruiert und zum Vorstoß des Aletschgletschers im 14. Jahrhundert in Beziehung gesetzt worden. Das Zusammenspiel der...

The definition of the Eastern European Central Area has, depending on periods, seen schools, political affinities, ethnicity, religion or cultural identities, multiple variations. But especially now, at the beginning of the new millennium, the issue of defining — redefining spaces (with European pre...

We are living in times when terms such as democracy, human rights and individual freedom are used in inflammatory ways, so that they could be thought to be fully realised in our European society.

John Paul II and Europe In his article entitled ‘Una frontiera per l’Europa: dove?’ (The boundary of Europe: where is it located?), published in Vita e Pensiero (October 1978), a monthly periodical disseminated by the Catholic University in Milan, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła presented the significanc...

This study analyzes the problem of history seen as a playground between two different worlds: Eastern and Western Europe. The article draws attention to the relation between the two European regions from the cultural and historical point of view. The two areas may be also seen as two naughty childre...

The author, using source materials and the literature in many languages, has assumed that in order to find the genesis of the Nazi interpretation of geopolitics it is necessary to have a look at the works written by the creators of that discipline, i.e. first of all German Friedrich Ratzel (1844–...

The dissertation-based monograph by Paul Srodecki suggests an impressive research of the Antemurale rhetoric, in particular the way it crystallized and functioned in Europe mostly from the 12th to the 17th century. The Author explores rhetorical clichés and strategies to demonstrate how particular c...

The special issue “Precarious Past? Research on Baroque Art and Architecture in East Central Europe under Socialism”, edited by Michaela Marek (†) and Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė, originates from a conference held at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2014. In order to enhance a comparative approach to the...

If cities are palimpsests of history, as Andreas Huyssen suggests, the palimpsest posits a cogent epistemological framework. Periodically de-signified and re-signified, connected and also conflictual, transcultural cities productively lend themselves to the modular and stratified palimpsestual appro...

Ceux qui ont connu la chute du mur de Berlin ne s'y retrouvent plus dans l'Europe d'aujourd'hui. Et ceux nés après 1989 - soit des centaines de millions de personnes - manquent d'éléments pour comprendre "l'Europe d'avant". Il existe donc la nécessité d'une publication de référence pour embrasser ce...

Exceptional world, the tomb of the Three Frères is based both on the richness of its architectural, decorative and epigraphic components and by the analyses it has inspired in the Mitteleuropa world at the end of the xixe and early xxth. By way of synthesis and following a study which seeks to explo...

this diploma deals with historical Croatian-German cultural contacts in the old eastern Croat city of Osijek (ungarian Eszék, German Esseg, Essegg or Essek). The history of the capital of Slavonia reflects historical events in Croatia and Central Europe. The conquests of the Ottoman Empire, the conn...

ResumeA based on trajectories and works of three pots in Mitteleuropa and having left Europe, this article provides a political analysis of nostalgia. Repensee since exile, Mitteleuropa is sublimee by this feeling. This litterary myth of Mitteleuropa works as a turning point for the three poetes, wh...

in: ‘Michelsberger Kultur’ and Central Europe 6000 years ago, catalogue d’exposure, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, 2010

GISA Schäffer-Huber (eds): Wenzel Hollar: His drawings — his life. A dangerous journey during the Thirty Years’ War, described in the history of William Crowne, Regensburg: Pustet 2018, ISBN-13: 978-3791728841. Renate Schreiber (Vienna) On behalf of King Charles I. Stuart, Thomas Howard, 21. EARL of...

In Marchesini and Ugo Malvano I shared for more than twenty years of life and painting, from marriage in 1930 to the beginning of the 1950s. A dense and intense dialogue, not without clashes. It was a fact that two personalities and two very different cultures were intertwined. Ugo Malvano is still...