Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe
| Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) | |
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 Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe |
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| Category: | Research institute |
| Carrier: | Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) eV |
| Legal form of the carrier: | society |
| Membership: | Leibniz Association |
| Facility location: | Leipzig |
| Subjects: | Humanities |
| Areas of expertise: | East European Studies , East Central European Studies |
| Management: | Christian Lübke , director |
| Employee: | approx. 50 |
| Homepage: | www.leibniz-gwzo.de |
The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) is an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented institute for East and East Central European research based in Leipzig. The focus of activity is the scientific investigation of the history and culture of the area between the Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Adriatic from the early Middle Ages to the present in a comparative perspective. The institute wants to contribute to a deeper understanding of current political, economic and social developments in the states, societies and cultures of Eastern Europe, especially Eastern Central Europe . It is a member of the Leibniz Association .
Research profile
The institute is committed to innovation and interdisciplinarity with regard to its methodical approach to research into Eastern Europe. This is realized:
- by accentuating the historical region of Eastern Central Europe within Eastern European Studies,
- by considering the research region in regional and international history,
- by comparing systematic questions,
- through multidisciplinary cooperation,
- through institutional cooperation and research bundling.
Interdisciplinarity
The around 50 scholars from Germany and abroad currently working at the institute represent various disciplines in the humanities, including archeology, onomatology, history, art history and literary studies.
Cooperations
The GWZO has a dense network of cooperative relationships with research institutions in Germany, Eastern Europe, other parts of Europe and overseas. There is close cooperation, for example, with the National Gallery in Prague , the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic .
The guest scientist program of the GWZO is of particular importance in the context of international cooperation.
The GWZO, together with six other research institutions in the Central German Science Region, is part of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe - Global Area” (EEGA) based in Leipzig, which was established in November 2016.
history
The institute was founded in 1995 as a non-profit, registered association on the recommendation of the Science Council as the “Humanities Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe” (GWZO for short) and started its work in January 1996. The historian Winfried Eberhard was appointed founding director.
Since 2003, the GWZO has had the status of an affiliated institute of the University of Leipzig.
Until 2007, the project was mainly financed by the German Research Foundation , the Volkswagen Foundation , the German Foundation for Peace Research , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science and others. In 2008 the GWZO was included in the supplementary project funding of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .
The GWZO has been a member of the Leibniz Association since January 1, 2017. Since then, the name of the institute has been "Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)". The abbreviation GWZO was retained.
The historian Christian Lübke has been director of the institute since 2007 .
structure
With the admission to the Leibniz Association, the institute was realigned in terms of organization and content. Administratively, the GWZO has been divided into the four scientific departments “People and Environment”, “Culture and Imagination”, “Interdependence and Globalization” and “Knowledge Transfer and Networking” (including library) as well as an administrative department since 2017. In addition, two program areas were established: “Research on Eastern Europe” and “Transfer of research results”.
The central organs of the GWZO are the general assembly, the board of directors, the board of trustees and the scientific advisory board.
Library
The GWZO library is an academic reference library with currently around 134,000 media units in various European languages, mainly Polish, Hungarian, Czech and English. It is the largest special library on East Central Europe in the new federal states. The acquisition profile is based on the company's medium-term research program and the general, region-specific mandate of the institute. In addition, the library has the holdings of various Eastern European researchers, including Hans Roos , Joachim Herrmann , Ernst Eichler and Hans-Joachim Schlegel . The library in the Specks Hof can be used by both the specialist public and the interested public.
Publications
The GWZO publishes four in-house publication series, including the series "Visuelle Geschichtskultur", "Research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe" and "Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia". The latest editions are published by Böhlau Verlag and are freely accessible online as an open access version .
The German-English series "Armenians in Eastern Europe - Armenians in Eastern Europe" has so far been published in five volumes and is edited by, among others, the historian Stefan Troebst , Deputy Director of the GWZO.
Handbooks in several volumes bundle the research results at the GWZO for the specialist public and interested readers: The magnificently illustrated "Handbook on the History of Art in East Central Europe" (Volume 1: 400–1000. From the Late Antique Heritage to the Beginnings of Romanticism; published 2017) is published in its nine volumes provide a comprehensive presentation of the history of art in Eastern Central Europe from the legacy of late antiquity to the present. The "Handbook of a transnational history of East Central Europe" (Volume 1: From the middle of the 19th century to the First World War; published in 2017) offers the first comprehensive presentation of the transnational history of the research region.
Since 2010, the institute has been publishing the annual "Mitropa" magazine for a broad reading audience with current articles on the research topics of the GWZO. Annual reports are also published regularly.
Exhibitions
The GWZO constantly curates and organizes exhibitions at home and abroad or provides academic support for them.
The German-Czech-Polish exhibition project "Europa Jagellonica" presented the art and culture of Central Europe at the turn of the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was jointly organized by four art museums and the GWZO and successfully shown in 2012/2013 in the cities of Kutná Hora , Warsaw and Potsdam .
At the first Bavarian-Czech national exhibition "Kaiser Karl IV. 1316-2016" on the occasion of the 700th birthday of Charles IV. 2016/2017, the institute was together with the National Gallery in Prague , the House of Bavarian History (HdBG) in Augsburg and the Germanic National Museum (GNM) in Nuremberg involved.
In 2017 the institute realized its first digital exhibition with “The unbearable lightness of haiku - The artist Karel Trinkewitz ”.
Web links
- Official website of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe
- Annual magazine "Mitropa"
Individual evidence
- ^ Cooperation of the GWZO. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ^ Visiting scientist at the GWZO. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ^ ScienceCampus "Eastern Europe - Global Area" (EEGA). Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
- ^ Project management agency DLR. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ^ Framework program "Humanities, Cultural and Social Sciences" (2012-2017) of the BMBF. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release: "The humanities center in Leipzig becomes Leibniz Institute". In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, November 26, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ^ Library of the GWZO. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ^ Rows of the GWZO. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual reports of the GWZO. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ↑ GWZO exhibitions. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ^ Bavarian-Czech regional exhibition "Emperor Karl IV. 1316-2016" on the homepage of the House of Bavarian History. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
- ^ Digital exhibition "The Lightness of Haiku" - The artist Karel Trinkewitz. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .