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Foundation For The Sorbian People
The Foundation for the Sorbian people ( Sorbian ; ) is a nonprofit foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg. It was established to preserve of the languages, culture, and traditions. Structure and history The foundation has its seat in the house of the Sorbs in Bautzen. Additionally, it has a branch offices in Cottbus and regional offices in Crostwitz, Hoyerswerda and Schleife. The foundation was established on October 19, 1991, in the Lutheran church of Lohsa by the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg. It provides most of the funding for the Sorbian institutions, granting about 23.9 million € annually to the Sorbian National Ensemble, the Domowina including its language center Witaj, the Domowina Publishing House, the Serbski Institut, the German-Sorbian Theater, the Wendish Museum Cottbus and the Sorbian Museum Bautzen. The foundation board consists of fifteen members, whereof six are repres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budyšin Serbski Dom
Bautzen () or Budyšin (), until 1868 ''Budissin'' in German, is a town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and the administrative centre of the district of Bautzen. It is located on the Spree river, is the eighth most populous town in Saxony, and is the seat of Saxony's largest district. Bautzen lies in the bilingual Sorbian settlement area ('' Serbski sydlenski rum'') of Lusatia, and is Lusatia's third-largest town after Cottbus and Görlitz, as well as the second-largest town in Upper Lusatia. The town lies in the hilly Upper Lusatian Gefilde ( ''Hornjołužiske hona''), a part of the northwesternmost foothills of the Sudetes, just north of the Lusatian Highlands. Bautzen is the first larger town on the Spree River (), and the Bautzen Reservoir ( ''Budyska rěčna zawěra'') lies in the north of the town. In 2021, Bautzen had a population of around 38,000. Although Görlitz is larger, it is Bautzen that is regarded as the historical capital of Upper Lusatia. Bautzen is the politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lohsa
Lohsa (German) or Łaz (Upper Sorbian, ) is a municipality in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. The municipality is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony. Upper Sorbian has an official status next to German, all villages bear names in both languages. Demographics The Sorbian population of the village was 358 in 1840, 355 in 1860, and 400 in 1880. Villages Several villages belong to the municipality (names given in German/Upper Sorbian): * Dreiweibern/Tři Žony * Driewitz/Drěwcy * Friedersdorf/Bjedrichecy * Groß Särchen/Wulke Ždźary * Hermsdorf/Spree/Hermanecy * Koblenz/Koblicy * Lippen/Lipiny * Litschen/Złyčin * Lohsa/Łaz * Mortka/Mortkow * Riegel/Roholń * Steinitz/Šćeńca * Tiegling/Tyhelc * Weißig/Wysoka * Weißkollm/Běły Chołmc Economy and Infrastructure Education The municipality of Lohsa has a primary school in Groß Särchen and a secondary school. Traffic To the east of the municipality runs the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (; 20 August 1856 in Kuckau – 16 October 1909 in Panschwitz), also known as Łužičan, Jakub Bart Kukowski, was a Sorbian poet, writer and playwright, translator of Czech, Polish, Italian and German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy .... He produced his works in Upper Sorbian. He is also an inventor of modern Upper Sorbian poetic language. He has been described as "the classical writer of Sorbian literature." As a Sorbian writer, he felt that writing the Sorbian language and using it for literature and for education would be important for preserving the vitality and distinctiveness of Sorbian culture. But he also realized that it was a double-edged sword, in that education would reduce the isolation of Sorbian culture, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorbian Museum
The Sorbian Museum, (), , is hosted in the salthouse of the Ortenburg, Bautzen. It houses approximately 35,000 inventarized objects, making it the most important museum of Sorbian culture and history. History The association Maćica Serbska included the establishment of a Sorbian museum on their agenda in 1856. It was the first institution to collect ethnological and historical objects connected to the Sorbs. For an 1896 exhibition of Saxon arts and crafts in Dresden, exhibits were collected and presented by Sorbian institutions in the so-called Wendish village. When the Serbski dom was inaugurated in 1904, the Sorbian Museum was opened simultaneously on the third floor. The closure of the Serbski dom by the Nazi government in 1937 put an end to the first Sorbian Museum. In 1942, its collection was included in the municipal museum of Bautzen. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a museum of Sorbian history and ethnology was founded in 1957 in Hoyerswerda. As objects of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendish Museum
The Wendish Museum, , , is a museum of the culture and history of the Wends and Sorbs in Lower Lusatia. It is located in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany. It encompasses a large collection of Tracht, especially from the Spree Forest region. Apart from its permanent exhibition, the museum hosted more than 40 special exhibitions on various topics. All exhibitions are bilingual Lower Sorbian and German. History The museum in its current form exists since 1994, but builds on the former Wendish Farmers Hut, that existed until the time of Nazi Germany in the Cottbus Municipal museum. The entire collection was lost during World War II. In the Democratic Republic of Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ... a Museum for Lower Sorbian literature was established in 1980, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorbian Institute
The Sorbian Institute (; Sorbian: ''Serbski institut'', , ) is a research facility focused on Sorbian languages, culture and history. It is an extra-university institute collecting and archiving Sorbian texts and cultural artifacts making them available to the public. Originally founded as Institute for Sorbian Ethnology (; ) by Pawoł Nowotny in 1951, it was then integrated into the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin in 1952. In 1992, the Sorbian institute was established by a treaty of the two German states Brandenburg and Saxony. The Institute The Sorbian Institute's main office is located in Bautzen (Budyšin), with a branch office in Cottbus (Chóśebuz). A new office building to be shared with the Sorbian museum is planned at present in Bautzen. The institute is financially supported by the Foundation for the Sorbian People. The institute edits the academic journal ''Lětopis'' since 1952 and two further book series. The "Schriften des Sorbischen Instituts/Spisy S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domowina Publishing House
The Domowina Publishing House (; Upper Sorbian: ) is a publisher in Germany, which focuses on Sorbian books, journals and newspapers as well as German language literature on Sorbian topics. Although it bears the same name as the Sorbian organization Domowina, it is institutionally independent. It is owned by the Foundation for the Sorbian People and runs the Smoler'sche Bookstore at Tuchmacherstraße in Bautzen, where its office is, too. The only Sorbian language publisher was founded on 1 July 1958 in Bautzen as a Volkseigener Betrieb and privatized after the German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ... in 1990. It publishes novels and children's books in Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian and German, as well as the Upper Sorbian daily newspaper ''Serbske Nowiny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domowina
Domowina () is a political independent league of the Sorbian and Wendish people and umbrella organization of Sorbian societies in Lower and Upper Lusatia, Germany. It represents the interests of Sorbian people and is the continual successor of the previous ''Domowina League of the Lusatian Sorbs'' (, , ). The organization has been a member of the Federal Union of European Nationalities since 1990. Name The Sorbian word ''Domowina'' is a poetic expression for 'homeland'. The name was proposed by Domowina co-founder Bogumił Šwjela, then Lutheran pastor of Nochten and Sorbian linguist. History The Domowina institution, founded in Hoyerswerda in 1912, is situated in Bautzen (Budyšin) in Saxony alongside other cultural institutions of the Sorbian people for which it serves as an umbrella organization. The Domowina was closed by Nazi authorities in 1937 and reopened on 10 May 1945, right after the end of World War II, and regained official status in the German Democratic Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
(; "Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to RBB (; stylized as rbb), is an institution under public law (national broadcaster) for the Germany, German states of Berlin and Brandenburg, based in Berlin and Potsdam. RBB was established on 1 May 2003 through the merger of (SFB) and (ORB), based in Potsdam, and is a member of the Association of Public service broadcaster, PSBs in the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD (broadcaster), ARD). Aside from its two main studios in Berlin and Potsdam, RBB also has regional studios in Cottbus and Frankfurt (Oder), and regional offices in Perleberg and Prenzlau. RBB also operates ARD's studio in Warsaw; the responsibility changes every five years between RBB and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, WDR (). RBB also Playout, plays out ARD's digital channels from a center in Potsdam. RBB and WDR are jointly responsible for ARD's television studio in Berlin. History RBB was founded on 25 June 2002 on the basis of a state treaty between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schleife
Schleife (; , ) is a municipality of 3,000 in northern Görlitz district, northeast Saxony, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Schleife'' (about 5,000 inhabitants). The municipality is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony. Upper Sorbian has an official status next to German, all villages bear names in both languages. Administration During the 1990s, there were municipal reforms in Saxony to make the administration more effective and less expensive. In that time, Schleife was joined by the two villages of Mulkwitz and Rohne, and the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Schleife'', based on the parish of Schleife, was established. The parish of Schleife consists of eight villages, except for Lieskau the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Schleife'' is formed by them: Lieskau is a special case, it is located in the state of Brandenburg Brandenburg, officially the State of Brandenburg, is a States of Germany, state in northeastern Germany. Brandenbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorbian Languages
The Sorbian languages (, ) are the Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language, two closely related and partially mutually intelligible languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavs, West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern Germany. They are classified under the West Slavic languages, West Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages and are therefore closely related to the other two West Slavic subgroups: Lechitic languages, Lechitic and Czech–Slovak languages, Czech–Slovak.About Sorbian Language by Helmut Faska, University of Leipzig Historically, the languages have also been known as Wendish (named after the Wends, the earliest Slavic people in modern Poland and Germany) or Lusatian. Their collective ISO 639-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoyerswerda
Hoyerswerda () or Wojerecy () is a major district town in the district of Bautzen in the German state of Saxony. It is located in the Sorbian settlement area of Upper Lusatia, in which the Upper Sorbian language is spoken in addition to German. Hoyerswerda is divided into the Old Town and the New Town, surrounded by village areas. The Old Town is the historical centre with many old houses and sight-seeing attractions, the New Town is more modern and varicoloured. Prior to the renovation of the town, prefabricated apartment blocks predominated in this area. The town has many lakes, marshes and waterways in its surrounding area, because of its situation in Lusatia. This brings many tourists to spend their holidays there. It is attractive for cyclists and inline skaters who use recently created paths meandering among the lakes. Geography The town is situated in the north of the District of Bautzen, close to the borders of Saxony with Brandenburg. Major cities and towns in proximi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
