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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Background:
In 1992-1994, a group of Kaliningrad-based historians and social scientists, many affiliated with the Federal Baltic University (Kaliningrad), conducted a life-histories project collecting 256 recorded interviews with early Soviet ‚resettlers‘ of East Prussia. The topic, which was closed to researchers for more than forty years and represented only in a highly selective way in the State Archive, received a new and often unexpected light. This was the fi rst, and remains to be the only and unique depository of recollections about the immediate post-war life in the annexed East Prussia. The performance is an artistic interpretation of the results of this work.
Synopsis:
The world after the catastrophe, post-war Koenigsberg, turned into Kaliningrad. Woe to the defeated, but are the victors happy? Life on the territories annexed in 1945 – as it is, according to documentary evidence. The Germans, evicted from their homes, Russian, who came to master the city. The love story of two enemies is the novel of a Soviet offi cer and a German woman, whom he saves from eviction. The inevitable ‘we are here to live’ in the stories of those who were sent to learn the residential. Koenigsberg: ‘I received an apartment with furniture, carpets, dishes, furniture and with an old German.’ Defeated and winners are ordinary people in the world after the war. How they built a new life and said goodbye to the old two worlds: losers and winners, indigenous people and settlers, military and peaceful, women and men, children and the elderly.
Location Lecture hall, Herder institute, Marburg
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
09/13/2018 17:00 - 09/13/2018 19:00
Event venue:
Vortragssaal/Lecture hall
Herder Institute
Gisonenweg 5-7
35037 Marburg
Hessen
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Music / theatre, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
09/10/2018
Sender/author:
Antje Coburger M.A.
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event61498
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