Collegium Bohemicum

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The Collegium Bohemicum is a non-profit cultural, educational and research institution founded in 2006 with headquarters in Ústí nad Labem . The organization is primarily dedicated to German-Czech relations and the cultural heritage of the German-speaking population in the Bohemian countries . To this end, it participates in the organization of German - Czech cultural events as well as scientific seminars and lectures and also offers educational projects and grants.

history

After a preparatory phase, the approval of the establishment of the Collegium Bohemicum as a non-profit organization (ops) by the assembly of city councilors of Ústí nad Labem took place on June 22, 2006 . The town of Ústí nad Labem, the town museum, the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University and the Society for the History of Germans in Bohemia were involved in its creation . In the summer of 2007 the Collegium Bohemicum started its office work. Some time later, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic also participated as a supporting institution. On June 29, 2011, the work of the Collegium Bohemicum began in the renovated museum building in Ústí nad Labem, where the offices of the Collegium Bohemicum and the City Museum are also located. The director of the Collegium Bohemicum is Petr Koura (as of 2018).

aims

The aim of founding the organization as a public, interactive, not-for-profit institution was to work closely with the city museum, the university and the city, while at the same time expanding its activities to the Czech Republic as a whole. Research in the field of the history of Germans in Bohemia and the examination of German-Czech history and relations should be the focus of the work of the Collegium Bohemicum. The activities range from the organization of scientific conferences and lectures as well as other educational events to the development of exhibitions and publications to the operation of our own archive and library, which are also available to the public. The target audience is therefore also the public from Germany , the Czech Republic and Austria .

Aussiger literature night

Together with the Brücke / Most Foundation , the cultural center of the city of Ústí nad Labem, the Robert Bosch Foundation , the Emila Filly Gallery and the Goethe Institute in Prague, the Collegium Bohemicum has been involved in the Aussiger Literature Night project since 2008, the first time Against the background of the 10th Czech-German Culture Days, the German-Czech Literature Night took place in the Aussiger Kulturhaus. There were authors and actors present who read texts by contemporary German and Czech writers in the Kulturhaus.

Kino Aussig

The organization has been organizing an annual event called “Kino Aussig ” since 2008 , at which several German films are presented to school classes and the general public in Ústí nad Labem. In 2010 this project took place as part of the 12th Czech-German Culture Days , at which German films from the previous two years were shown.

Publications

  • Otfried Preußler : The angel with the bobble hat / Anděl v kulichu , Ústí nad Labem 2009
  • Tragic places of remembrance / Tragická místa paměti , Prague 2010
  • Places of remembrance of German-Czech coexistence / Místa paměti česko-německého soužití , Prague 2011

Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board is an advisory body to the director and board of directors with regard to the research work of the Collegium Bohemicum. It consists of :

  • Kristina Kaiserová , head of the Institute for Slavic-Germanic Studies
  • Milena Bartlová , Art History Department at the Faculty of Philosophy at Masaryk University in Brno
  • Peter Becher , Managing Director of the Adalbert Stifter Association, Munich
  • Detlef Brandes , former professor at the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
  • Peter Haslinger , Director of the Herder Institute in Marburg and Professor of the History of East Central Europe at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
  • Miloš Havelka, Political Science Institute at the FF UK Prague
  • Daniel Kroupa, Head of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at UJEP in Ústí nad Labem
  • Marek Nekula, director of the Bohemicum Regensburg - Passau, University of Regensburg
  • Stefan Michael Newerkla , Institute for Slavonic Studies, Vienna
  • Jiří Pešek, head of the Institute for German and Austrian Studies at FSV UK Prague
  • Miloš Řezník , Forum for European Studies at the TU Chemnitz
  • Jacques Rupnik, Institut Poptick Studies in Paris (Institut d´Etudes Poptique de Paris)
  • Walter Schmitz , Director of the Central Europe Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies at the TU Dresden
  • Martin Schulze Wessel , 1st chairman of the Collegium Carolinums, Munich
  • Stanislav Slavík, Department of New History in the National Museum in Prague
  • Jan Šícha, Department for Central Europe in the Czech Foreign Office in Prague
  • Tobias Weger , Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at LMU Munich
  • Václav Petrbok, Institute of Czech Literature AV ČR

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