| Titre | Du "patrimoine perdu" au "patrimoine commun européen" | |
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| Auteur | Thomas Weger | |
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Revue | Revue d'Allemagne |
| Numéro | Tome 47, N°2 , juillet-décembre 2015 Retour sur le modèle rhénan - humanisme, capitalisme et métropolisation / Patrimonialisation du passé "allemand" en Europe centrale après 1990. Enjeux de (re)présentation | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier : Patrimonialisation du passé "allemand" en Europe centrale après 1990. Enjeux de (re)présentation |
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| Page | 385 | |
| Résumé anglais |
After an attempt to define the concept of “cultural heritage” which can be deducted from the Roman law, the article discusses its function: It includes an inventory of existing cultural emanations, but can also be used as a rhetoric figure in order to formulate claims and social hierarchies. One should distinguish immaterial and material aspects of the cultural heritage. The article focuses on the cultural heritage of Germans from Eastern Europe who migrated during of after World War II as a consequence of resettlements, evacuations, flight, expulsion of late repatriation. Already since the 19th century, the Germans showed an increased interest in cultural emanations of those Germans living outside the boundaries of the German Confederation resp. the German Empire. At the beginning this was motivated by a romantic spirit, later by Pan-German convictions. After the territorial losses after 1918, a rhetoric of loss was cultivated, the arguments of which were often based on material culture. In an analogue way this happened after 1945, with State support and a narrow network of political and scholarly organizations. In the Eastern European countries, the “German cultural heritage” underwent a reinterpretation in the decades after 1945. Dissidents developed an alternative discourse, as the article states, giving the example of Poland. In the meantime, the term “common European cultural heritage” has become a constant formula. This concept goes along with the query of Europe's cultural roots, which can be opposed by the imperative of a common political will. The term “common European cultural heritage” oscillates between rhetoric, legislation and political practice. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://journals.openedition.org/allemagne/303 |
