„Odsun“ Němců v české vzpomínkové kultuře

• Authors: Sandra Kreisslová

Title variants

EN

„The displacement“ of Germans in Czech commemorative culture

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The focus of the study is on the issue in what manner the Czech society treats the post-war forcible displacement of Germanspeaking inhabitants. After decades of taboo on the side of Communist regime, opportunities opened up after 1989 to revise the Czech-German coexistence, and gradually the commemorative culture of the “displacement” was formed. The text follows both official political attitudes to the German past, and the public reminding thereof as well as its presentification initiated “from below”. It turns out that especially the commemoration of tragic events related to forcible persecutions of Germans during the so-called wild resettlements becomes a source for the dispute between the different imagines of the past and the all-societal tension; at the same time, however, such acts of collective recollections serve as a means to overcome the traumatic past and be equal with it. The complicated process of facing up to the “displacement” of Germans is illustrates with a particular example of the public reminding of the so-called Brno death march.

Keywords

EN

forcible displacement of Germans commemorative culture; collective memory; facing up to the past; the Brno death march

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY
• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 284 - 295

Contributors

author

Sandra Kreisslová