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Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Professur:
Professur für Denkmalkunde
Professurinhaber:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Paul Zalewski
Projekttitel:
postdoctoral research: “Polish-German borderland in the German perspective: cultural heritages, historical layers and the local ways of exploration” (Brandenburgisches Internationalisierungsstipendium, MWFK)
Projektleitung:
Dr. Pawel Ladykowski / University of Szczecin, under the supervision of Professur für Denkmalkunde, Prof. Paul Zalewski
Projektart: Teilprojekt
Finanzierung: Eigenfinanzierung EUV
Projektbeginn: 01.01.2010
Projektbeschreibung in englisch:
The project will examine German’s attitudes and images of the past and of the present and the cultural constructions build around the idea of shifting cultural space they share. Along with signing of the Schengen Treaty and disappearance of the political frontiers people encounter new opportunities and new social phenomena appear, among them greater mobility in relation to freedom of choice of the most convenient forms of state service provision. Such phenomena are of interest to anthropologists and sociologists, but they do not solely constitute possible research agenda. Mixed Polish-German population inhabiting (since very recent time) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg manifests an increasing interest in exploring cultural heritages and the historical layers of the entire borderland region. Such context confronts researchers with question about the forms such curiosity may have and the perspectives it brings to the development of the region. Initiatives which emerge “from below”, such as growing number of internet publications (including press releases, private blogs, and semi-professional portals dedicated to the transmission of knowledge about particular localities, such as e.g. www.sedina.pl in Szczecin), various forms of tourism (not only nostalgic trips to lost territories, but also student exchange and many more) are but few examples of how gaining expertise in local history becomes popular on both sides of the border. The cultural perspectives are articulations of multiple moralities involved in reading history, which is always a subject to a different level politics. Tracing changes in these articulations may contribute to better understanding and management of cultural perspectives. Taking into account the post-war policy eradicating German influences and discourses from the Polish public space (which entails both socialist policy of condemning “the West” as well as particularly negative image of Germany’s involvement in the WWII), which resulted not only in an almost complete lack of knowledge about the neighbours, but also lack of common, shared memory. Therefore mobility in the region, particularly the one that results from the interest in both “once ours” (previously German) and “other’s” (Polish) history and culture seems to be significant as an attempt of restoration of common historical memory.