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Galicia is an integral part of the Habsburg myth and the epitome of worldly seclusion, Eastern Jewish cultural traditions, the Kakan way of life and indescribable poverty. Even if the supranational entity called the Habsburg Monarchy, to which Galicia belonged between 1772 and 1918, no longer exists, the region lives on in literature. In addition to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Iwan Franko and Karl Emil Franzos, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Mascha Kaléko, Stanisław Vincenz, Józef Wittlin, Hnat Chotkevych, Zygmunt Haupt, Stanisław Lem, and Isaak Babel dealt with Galician themes. Today, Sophia and Juri Andrukhovych, Andrzej Stasiuk, Olga Tokarczuk, Martin Pollack, Tanya Maljartschuk, Taras and Jurko Prochasko, Ziemowit Szczerek, Natalka Sniadanko, Maxim Biller among others, do so. The book takes you to places of European history in the Southeast of Poland and in the West of Ukraine - from Krakow via Tarnow to Brody and from Lviv via Drohobych, Stanislau/Iwano-Frankiwsk and Boryslau to Zakopane. Marcin Wiatr reminds us that Galicia has historical lessons to teach us all in Europe.
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"'Literary guide' is truly an understatement for this guide."
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Author Biography
Marcin Wiatr, born in 1975 in Gliwice, studied German language and literature, German history, education and translation studies at the universities of Opole, Kiel and Krakow. He received his doctorate with a thesis on the politician Wojciech Korfanty in literary and political discourses of the interwar and post-war period. 2016 saw the publication of his Literary Travel Guide Upper Silesia. This was followed in 2018 by an anthology "Phantom Pain or Cholonek and others" with his essays on Upper Silesia's history and present, which were published in the German-Polish magazine DIALOG from 2011 to 2015. In addition, he published and translated numerous articles on German-Polish relations in literature and sports history. He is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig, where he is coordinating the work on the Joint German-Polish Textbook Commission and the Joint German-Czech Textbook Commission. He conducts research on educational policy processes and minority issues in historical border regions of Central and Eastern Europe, international textbook work and transnational didactics.
Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa e.V.
The German Cultural Forum for Central and Eastern Europe publishes richly illustrated non-fiction books about the cultural history of those areas of Central and Eastern Europe where Germans used to, or still do live. The carefully edited titles with elaborated appendices are written by well-known experts who are able to present information about Central and Eastern Europe in an attractive way by cultural travel guides or historical overview books. The Cultural Forum also edits an annual and a bimonthly magazine, Blickwechsel ("Change of perspective") and Kulturkorrespondenz östliches Europa ("Cultural Correspondence Central and Eastern Europe"). Furthermore, the Forum organizes popular lectures, discussions, readings, exhibitions, concerts, journalist trips, writer residencies and prize-givings.
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- Publisher Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa
- Publication Date September 2022
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783936168778
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 19.80 EUR
- Pages476
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLiterarischer Reiseführer Galizien
- Editionfirst
- Copyright Year2022
- Page size20.5 cm x 12.5 cm (21 x 12.6) cm
- Illustration13 contemporary color maps, 26 contemporary color photos, 26 b/w historic photos/post cards, 6 historic color post cards, 1 b/w graphics, 3 color graphic, 9 color paintings
- Biblio Noteselaborated appendix (time tables, bibliography, name index)
- SeriesPotsdamer Bibliothek östliches Europa – Kulturreisen
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