Zugl.: Trier, Univ., Diss., 2002

Stuttgart, FH, Diplomarb., 2000.

Stuttgart, FH, Diplomarb., 1999.

Zugl.: Potsdam, Hochsch. für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Diplomarbeit, 2007

Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Bremen.

Cultural diplomacy is one part of the public diplomacy which affects almost everybody of us. Studied countries- Germany and France - carry out two of the most intensive and generous foreign cultural policies, nevertheless which differ in basic principles. First two chapters examine both policies from the general point of view. The last one compares their cultural diplomacy in the Czech republic, from both historical and contemporary (institutional question and programme question)point of view.

This thesis deals with German foreign cultural policy in the Czech Republic after 1989 in relation to the promotion of German language promotion. The thesis describes both the development of the conceptions of German foreign cultural policy and the promotion of German language based on activities of three German institutions: Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), Goethe-Institut and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The research period is divided in two parts -before 1999 and since 2000, because the thesis assumes that there have been changes concerning quantity and quality of German policy regarding language promotion since about 2000. In addition the thesis searches for the effects on the real measures in the Czech Republic concerning the conceptual changes in German policy. After the 90's when the German was promoted massively in the Czech Republic as well as in the whole region of Central and Eastern Europe, the promotion of German has been rather declining since 2000. It is given by the lowering interest in the region just as by the lower importance that was attributed to the promotion of German. Simultaneously the number of people learning German in the Czech Republic has fallen rapidly. Lately the German actors have tried to counteract this trend by renewing their effort in...

This thesis focuses on the ideological workings of Germany’s main public diplomacy organization, the Goethe-Institut. Drawing upon his experience doing fieldwork at the Goethe-Institut in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and employing discourse and semiotic analysis, the author identifies four ideological currents within the organization. Relating these currents to four specific interest groups for which the Goethe-Institut is a strategic point of operation, and examining their complex interrelation, allows for an analysis of how their interplay at once constructs, deconstructs and reconstructs the notion of the German Nation.