Akademische Abhandlung--Lund. / Extra t.p., with thesis note, inserted. Translated from the author's Swedish manuscript by Hanna Berg-Greisinger. cf. p. 3. "Die vorliegende Arbeit ist als die erste einiger Untersuchungen zur wendischen Religions- und Kulturgeschichte zu betrachten."--P. [3]. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [172]-179.

Akademische Abhandlung--Lund. / Extra t.-p., with thesis note, inserted. Translated from the author's Swedish manuscript by Hanna Berg-Greisinger. cf. p. 3. "Die vorliegende Arbeit ist als die erste einiger Untersuchungen zur wendischen Religions- und Kulturgeschichte zu betrachten."--p. [3] "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [172]-179.

Der Anspruch der Publikationen der Reihe „Sorben (Wenden) - Eine Brandenburger Minderheit und ihre Thematisierung im Unterricht“, Lehrerinnen und Lehrern Anregungen und Impulse für eine Berücksichtigung der Thematik in ihrem Unterricht zu geben, bleibt aktuell. Der Bildungsauftrag der Brandenburger Schule ist in dieser Hinsicht auch unverändert. Was sich jedoch verändert hat, sind eine Vielzahl von Rahmenlehrplänen. Mit der vorliegenden Publikation, der überarbeiteten und erweiterten Zusammenfassung der 2008 erschienenen Teile I und II, entstand ein einführendes Werk, das fachübergreifende Grundlagen zum Thema Sorben/Wenden in Brandenburg und Anknüpfungspunkte für die Unterrichtsfächer an den Schulen Brandenburgs bietet. Wie immer flossen zahlreiche Quellen sorbischer/wendischer Institutionen ein, so dass auch deren Perspektiven berücksichtigt wurden. Zahlreiche Verweise auf weiterführende Literatur bzw. das Internet sollen zudem bei einer tiefer gehenden Beschäftigung mit der Thematik hilfreich sein.

To what extent was German unification (1989-90) a turning point (Wende) for the Sorbian national minority? Although a majority of scholars and commentators understand the period as one of ‘revolution’, there are grounds to query how radical or widespread were the changes which the collapse of communism promised to bring. In the case of the Sorbs – a national minority in Germany which was persecuted under the National Socialist regime, which became a protected minority under the German Democratic Republic, and which remains a protected minority under the Federal Republic of Germany – many difficulties persist in the relationship between the Sorbs, the German government, and wider German society, as well as amongst the Sorbs themselves. There have been extensive policy, legal, and constitutional changes since unification, but these have often led to similar outcomes as would have been expected under the GDR. The economy is one of the biggest challenges in the post-unification era, as the government and broader society seek to balance the legally recognised rights of national minorities with the economic interests of the state and society at large. This conflict is most evident in the continuation of brown coal mining in the Sorbian area of settlement, as well as in the privatisation of the GDR’s agricultural collectives after unification. Sorbian cultural institutions and organisations have remained relatively unreformed, which means that traditionalists have retained the upper hand in successive institutional debates. The case study of Horno, a village in south Brandenburg, illustrates these issues well, as it was destroyed in 2004 to make way for brown coal mining, and was the first village after unification to be relocated in this manner. These factors lead to the conclusion that German unification was not quite the turning point that it is commonly believed to be, as in many areas of Sorbian life, the continuities seem to outweigh the changes.

The diploma thesis deals with the history of Lusatian Sorbian grammar schools in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. The grammar schools existed in Česká Lípa, Varnsdorf and Liberec from 1945 to 1950. It also outlines the history of Lusatian Sorbs to the post-war period and describes the meaning of the Czech help for Lusatian Sorbian schools in the historical situation of the rise of German Nazism in 1933 and the complicated situation in Lusatia after 1945. Including the chapter about destinies of former Lusatian Sorbian students. Key words Lusatia, Lusatian Sorbs, grammar school, 1945 - 1950

This paper focuses on identity of young Lusatian Sorbs and it's manifestation on social networks and on the Internet. Theoretical part presents various attitudes to identity to point out ambiguity of this concept. There are presented and evaluated realized researchs of Lusatian Sorbs identity. Practical part concerned with analysis of virtual data on internet and social networks to describe, how Lusatian Sorbs communicate there and how they present there their identity. The identity research is introduced in context of actual happening in Lusatia. The important sources of informations for this paper are informal interviews with Lusatian Sorbs and my own observation and fieldwork. Keywords Lusatian Sorbs, identity, Lusatia, social networks, internet, Facebook

Submitted thesis deals with selected points from the development of the tribal society of the Polabian Slavs in the area called Slavic Polabia, i.e. the area between the Ore Mountains and the Lusatian Mountains in the south, rivers Elbe and Saale in the west, Baltic Sea in the north and river Oder in the east. The thesis is divided into the introduction and four longer chapters; together, they introduce the forms and manners of the medieval tribal society. The introduction defines the aims and methodology of the thesis, while also emphasizing the necessity to observe the diversity of each tribal societies, even in the context of the Slavic Polabia, which was supposed to be a home of the three big tribal societies or tribal confederations. Because of the differencies in the socio-political development of these three tribal confederations, the first chapter introduced its own proposition of periodization of the Polabian Slavs' history. This proposition is not based on the traditional criteria used by the older and contemporary medieval studies relying on the external factors, level of social differentiation or structural changes in the political system. The proposed periodization set a few development phases, which each of the tribal societies either passed or never reached. In its three parts (head,...

Between the years 1931-1934, both in the region of Jizera in the area between Semily and Mladá Boleslav and in the region of Central Elbe between Kolín and Nymburk, eight subsidiary unions of the Czechoslovakian-Lusatian society "Adolf Černý" were founded. On three other places, namely in Český Brod, Kouřim and Lysá nad Labem, the attempts to establish the local unions failed. Nonetheless, the area consequently became the second most significant cultural centre as well as the meeting point of the Lusatian Sorbs in the inter-war Czechoslovakia, the first one being Prague. It was regularly visited by the Lusatian Sokol gymnasts or choirs, and Lusatian-Sorbian children as well as university students spent their holidays there. It is therefore no surprise that the Mužský Hill near the city of Mnichovo Hradiště became the location of a demonstration in support of the Lusatian Sorbs which took place there in July 1933 as a reaction to a wave of persecutions in Germany. Due to the fragmentary nature of the sources, the topic of the following thesis is based primarily on the regional press, the Sorbian press and the journal Českolužický věstník, called Lužickosrbský věstník since 1931. There is only one complete archive which remained intact, namely the one of the Semily union of the Czech-Lusatian society...