Vzpomínání turnerů na 4. březen 1919

• Authors: Vojtěch Kessler , Martin Klement

Title variants

EN

The German Gymnastic Association recollections of 4 March 1919

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

On March 4, 1919 some German residents of many Czechoslovak cities took to the streets to express their disagreement with the current political and economic situation. This provoked a harsh and violent clash with state security forces; blood was spilled in many cities. Those Czechoslovak Germans who identified themselves with the idea of “Sudetendeutschtum” immediately made of this tragedy their "memorable sight". In the present study, attention is drawn to the German Gymnastic Association (Deutscher Turnverband), one of the most “Sudeten German” organizations. The image of the March events generated by the German Gymnastic Association is reconstructed mainly through an analysis of the association´s journal. In the union´s newspaper one can also find many indications pointing to not only a multiplication of the imperative image of March 4, 1919, but also its differentiated reception. Members of the German Gymnastic Association did not forget the March bloodshed, even after their forced expulsion from Czechoslovakia. It is possible, at least via some signs, to read in their post-war literary production how their perceptions of March 4, 1919 changed, how this narrative acquired an enlarged meaning, and what impact it finally had.

Keywords

EN

History; 20th century; Czechoslovakia; German Gymnastic Association; (Deutscher Turnverband) Arbeitsgemeinschaft sudetendeutscher Turner und; Turnerinnen in der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft; Turnzeitung des Deutschen Turnverbandes; memory; perception

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 105-133

Contributors

author

Vojtěch Kessler

• Historický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, Praha 9, Czech Republic

author

Martin Klement

• Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova Praha, Czech Republic