Siberia Cultural Foundation

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siberia Cultural Foundation
logo
legal form gGmbH
founding 2010
founder Erich Kasten
Seat Fürstenberg / Havel
Managing directors Erich Kasten
Website https://dh-north.org/themen/kulturstiftung-sibirien/

The Siberian Cultural Foundation ( Russian Фонд культуры народов Сибири Fond Kultury Narodow Sibiri , English Foundation for Siberian Cultures ) is a scientific institution with an affiliated scientific publishing house in Fürstenberg / Havel , whose work aims to document the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples of Northern Europe. The founder, managing director and scientific director is the ethnologist Erich Kasten .

history

The Siberian Cultural Foundation was founded in 2010 by Erich Kasten as a non-profit company and is based in Fürstenberg / Havel . The thematic and regional focuses of the foundation's work resulted from previous research by Kasten in Sápmi and on the North Pacific coasts in Canada and the Far East of Russia .

purpose

Applied ethnological and linguistic research on the cultures and languages ​​of indigenous peoples in Northern Eurasia, especially Siberia , is funded . The main objective of the work of the cultural foundation is to document the intangible cultural heritage in the region, including handicrafts , art , religion , language and traditional knowledge , for further research and the interested public. The latter also include the indigenous peoples themselves, e.g. B. the Nanai and Korjak , whereby the work of the cultural foundation would like to contribute to the revitalization and preservation of cultural practices and traditional knowledge within these cultures.

In addition to ethnology, the Siberian Cultural Foundation also deals with historical and contemporary political discourses that have a special relationship to Russia and Eastern Europe and would like to contribute to international understanding in the field of scientific and cultural cooperation between Germany and other countries. References to the city of Fürstenberg play a role, such as B. when working with contemporary witnesses of the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Publishing house of the Siberian Cultural Foundation

A publishing house is affiliated to the foundation under the same name as a special purpose operation . The publishing house of the Siberian Cultural Foundation publishes current research work as monographs or in anthologies, new editions of sources important to the history of research, e.g. B. about Adelbert von Chamisso and Georg Wilhelm Steller . Particular attention is paid to documentation in the form of annotated multimedia text editions or ethnographic films that are developed together with researchers and members of the indigenous peoples studied.

Series of publications (selection)
  • Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology , ed. by Erich Kasten and David Koester
  • Bibliotheca Kamtschatica , ed. by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr
  • Bibliotheca Sibiro-pacifica , ed. by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr
  • Languages ​​and Cultures of the Russian Far East , ed. by Erich Kasten

In the spirit of open science , all publications of the cultural foundation are made available free of charge via a digital library.

Partnerships and Advisory Board

The Siberian Cultural Foundation maintains partnerships with the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , the Hokkaido Museum of the Peoples of the North ( English Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples ) in Abashiri , the institute for humanities research and problems of the indigenous peoples of the Russian north the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of sciences in Yakutsk ( Russian Институт гуманитарных исследований и проблем малочисленных народов Севера СО РАН ) and the State public scientific library ( Russian Государственная публичная научно-техническая библиотека СО РАН ) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of sciences in Novosibirsk . The cultural foundation's scientific advisory board includes well-known international scientists, including the director of the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dmitri Funk .

Trivia

There is also a connection to Russia in that the villa on Uferweg 4 lived in the villa until the 1990s, senior officers of the Soviet armed forces stationed in the Röblinsee settlement .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Erich Kasten (en) . In: Cearc.fr , Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, January 2019. Accessed February 12, 2020. 
  2. Fürstenberger founds the Siberian Cultural Foundation , Märkische Oderzeitung. June 29, 2010. Accessed February 12, 2020. 
  3. Marco Winkler: Fürstenberger helps overcome borders , Märkische Oderzeitung. October 23, 2015. Accessed February 12, 2020. 
  4. ^ Page of the Siberian Cultural Foundation at Firminform.de
  5. Erich Kasten (en) . In: Cearc.fr , Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, January 2019. Accessed February 12, 2020. 
  6. Siberian Cultural Foundation at the Federal Association of German Foundations , accessed on February 14, 2020
  7. Diving into the world of Nanai , Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung. January 17, 2012. Accessed February 14, 2020. 
  8. Marco Winkler: Fürstenberger helps overcome borders , Märkische Oderzeitung. October 23, 2015. Accessed February 12, 2020. 
  9. Siberian Cultural Foundation at the Federal Association of German Foundations , accessed on February 14, 2020
  10. ^ "Other work areas" , accessed on February 14, 2020
  11. "The Ravensbrück men's camp and the story of the Polish prisoner Jan Błaszczyk, lecture and discussion in German and Polish (...) Organizer: Siberia Cultural Foundation, Fürstenberg" , accessed on February 14, 2020
  12. See DNB , accessed on February 14, 2020
  13. ^ Matthias Glaubrecht: poet, researcher, world traveler , Tagesspiegel. October 12, 2012. Accessed February 14, 2020. 
  14. ^ Marie-Theres Federhofer (ed.): Chamisso and the whales. With the original Latin text of the Chamissos whale script and its translation. Siberian Cultural Foundation, Fürstenberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942883-85-6 . ( here as PDF )
  15. ^ Georg Wilhelm Steller description of the land of Kamchatka. [Repr. the output v. 1774]. Edited by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr. Siberian Cultural Foundation, Fürstenberg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-942883-86-3 . ( here as PDF )
  16. ^ "Digital Library" , accessed on February 21, 2020
  17. "Partnerships" , accessed on February 21, 2020
  18. zoealou " " Goodbye, Lenin: The 'Röblinsee Siedlung' in Brandenburg ", accessed on February 21, 2020

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 13 ° 7 ′ 21.7 ″  E