FESTUNG EHRENBREITSTEIN, KOBLENZ
JANUARY 30 – MARCH 30, 2025
FESTUNG EHRENBREITSTEIN, KOBLENZ
JANUARY 30 – MARCH 30, 2025
The old Duchy of Schleswig was a region with many languages. During the 19th century, its Danish and German inhabitants became embroiled in an international conflict that sometimes erupted in warfare between their two “motherlands” over the definition of borders in the region. The 1920 referendum in Schleswig, and the Bonn-Copenhagen Declarations of 1955 between the Federal Republic of Germany and Denmark laid the foundations for peaceful development. Since then, German has enjoyed comprehensive minority protection on the Danish side of the border, and Danish on the German. Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein today is an indispensable participant in politics, culture, education, and social affairs. As a modern “minority by affirmation”, it is open to all who feel they belong to it and wish to contribute actively to cooperation. The aim is to enable its members to lead a Danish life “from cradle to grave”.
“Being a third thing”
Biculturality is a self-evident fact of life today for members of the autochthonous minorities in Germany. As a constant, however, it is also constantly being called into question, and it can become an emotional challenge and a spur for debate in the minority groups, for it harbours questions of belonging as well as people’s views of their own identity. Answers here differ from individual to individual, partly shaped by generations’ different lifeworlds and biographical experiences.
Line and Clara are pupils at the Gustav Johannsen Skole in Flensburg, and are participants in the “Sydslesvig Crew”, a project that children in Years 7-10 of the minority community schools can opt into as a elective subject. . The two girls talk about their feelings of belonging to the Danish minority, their bilingualism and their life within two cultures.
MINORITY SECRETARIAT OF THE FOUR
AUTOCHTHONOUS MINORITIES AND ETHNIC GROUPS GERMANY
VISITOR ADDRESS:
Englische Straße 30 | 10587 Berlin
POSTAL ADDRESS:
Minderheitensekretariat der vier autochthonen nationalen Minderheiten
und Volksgruppen Deutschlands
Bundeshaus
c/o Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat
Alt-Moabit 140 | 10557 Berlin
MAIL AND PHONE:
wanderausstellung@minderheitensekretariat.de
info@minderheitensekretariat.de
Tel.: +49 (0)30 18681 14623
www.minderheitensekretariat.de
www.facebook.com/minderheitensekretariat.de
The Minorities Secretariat is the liaison office of the associations of the national minorities with the federal bodies.
It is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.
THE EXHIBITION IS A PROJECT OF THE MINORITIES COUNCIL OF THE FOUR AUTOCHTHONOUS NATIONAL MINORITIES AND ETHNIC GROUPS GERMANY AND THE FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR NEDDERDÜÜTSCH.
PROJECT REALISATION:
Minority secretariat of the four
autochthonous minorities and ethnic groups Germany
www.minderheitensekretariat.de
PROJECT LEAD:
Judit Šołćina/Judith Scholze
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
Johanna Panse, Veronika Bjarsch
CURATION:
Dr. Robert Lorenc
EXHIBITION DESIGN:
buerojolas | Tim Jolas | www.buerojolas.de
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
Johanna Hoffmann, Isabel Latza, Ronny Licht | Berlin/Leipzig
EXHIBITON BUILDING:
rotes pferd | Eckelmann + Nolze GmbH Berlin | www.rotes-pferd.de
MEDIA DEVELOPMENT:
chairlines | www.chairlines.de
ostwärts-film | www.reinernagel.com
Stefan Damnig | www.stefan-damnig.de
WEBDESIGN & PROGRAMMING:
STARKAD | www.starkad.de
ADVISORY INSTITUTIONS:
Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma | www.dokuzentrum.sintiundroma.de
Niederdeutschsekretariat Hamburg | www.niederdeutschsekretariat.de
Nordfriisk Instituut Bräist/Bredstedt | www.nordfriiskinstituut.eu
Ostfriesische Landschaft, Plattdüütskbüro Auerk/Aurich | www.ostfriesischelandschaft.de
Seelter Buund Seelterlound/Saterland | www.saterland.de
Serbski muzej/Sorbisches Museum Budyšin/Bautzen | www.sorbisches-museum.de
Städtische Sammlungen, Serbski muzej/Wendisches/Museum Chóśebuz/Cottbus | www.wendisches-museum.de
Sydslesvigsk Forening Flensborg/Flensburg | www.syfo.de