FESTUNG EHRENBREITSTEIN, KOBLENZ
JANUARY 30 – MARCH 30, 2025
FESTUNG EHRENBREITSTEIN, KOBLENZ
JANUARY 30 – MARCH 30, 2025
The Slavic tribes living east of the Rivers Elbe and Saale came into the German sphere of influence in the Early Middle Ages. They constitute one of the roots of the present-day population of Germany. Only in Lusatia (Łužyca/Łužica/Lausitz) have the Sorbian/Wendish people been able to preserve two variants of their otherwise vanished Slavic language and develop them into modern, written languages: Lower Sorbian (Niedersorbisch/Dolnoserbšćina) or Wendish in Brandenburg, and Upper Sorbian (Obersorbisch/Hornjoserbšćina) in Saxony. Despite a national recovery that began in the 19th century, conflict awaited the Sorbian people in the 20th. Following the National Socialist ban on Sorbian languages and associations, the German Democratic Republic – although according minority protection to the Sorbians – eroded the substance of Lusatia through open-cast lignite mining, the collectivisation of agriculture and mass inward migration. Key issues today are the extension of the public use of Sorbian and securing native-language teaching in schools.
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