From Regional to National Consciousness: The Wallenstein Festival in Eger/ Cheb

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Regional to National Consciousness: The Wallenstein Festival in Eger/ Cheb

Original language description

This chapter deals with the changes and characteristics of national self- awareness in the west Bohemian region of Egerland. This region was clearly dominated by the German- speaking element after the Thirty Years War and was strongly affected by modernnationalism. The analysis uses the example of six festivals held in Eger and the wider region to trace the transformation of identity signs and historical symbols associated with national self- awareness. The first three festival editions, organised in the last years before the First World War and thus before the collapse of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, focused on reviving and completing the legend of Wallenstein and its connection with the town of Eger. The other three are an incentive to study the transformation of identity from regional to Sudeten German and then to pan- German, which was linked to the imposition of Nazi ideology and the annexation of the region to the Third Reich. This transformation is symbolised by the gradual suppression of the Wallenstein myth and its substitution by Wilhelm Tell and especially Friedrich Schiller. Initially developed by local enthusiasts and the interested public, the festival was transformed in the 1930s into a propaganda event by political and artistic leaders, integrating the region into the pan- German cultural and political framework.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

(Non)Commemoration of the Heritage in Eastern Europe

ISBN

978-3-631-91530-1

Number of pages of the result

21

Pages from-to

207-227

Number of pages of the book

371

Publisher name

Peter Lang

Place of publication

Berlin

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