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border(hi)stories

Improvement and transfer of knowledge about historical facts in the border region between Austria and Hungary

Education, Europe, Peacebuilding, Youth
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Background:

In the course of the 20th century, the regional and national identity of western Hungary and eastern Austria often developed in mutual delimitation and defense. The memory of these conflicts and often traumatic events manifests itself in symbolic places of memory. World history was also written here several times in the 20th century, such as at the Andau bridge during the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.

01 Borderhistories Sujet. Text: border(hi)stories. 100 Jahre Grenzgeschichte. Konflikte und Kooperationen im Wandel. Sichtweisen auf eine zentraleuropäische Grenze.

Project goal

The overall project goal is to improve knowledge of the historical facts in the border region and to establish, intensify and secure the long-term cooperation between organisations that impart this knowledge.

Duration:

January 2020 –
June 2022

Participating Organisations:

Austria:
Federal States of Vienna and Burgenland, Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (DÖW)

Hungary:
County administrations Vas Megyei Önkormányzati Hivatal and Győr-Moson-Sopron Megyei Önkormányzat, Nyugat-Pan- non Nonprofit Kft.

Results

  • First of all, the result is a digital inventory of the memory locations, on which all documents, specialist literature and image material are made publicly accessible and available
  • Second, an interactive map of the approximately 60 memory locations on both sides of the border is created, with basic information in German, Hungarian and English as well as links to the digital inventory
  • Thirdly, a joint circulating exhibition is created, which is shown in various locations in the region, combined with discussion events with the historical experts involved
  • In Hungary, an exhibition (city of Mosonmagyaróvár) or a local exhibition and mediation concept (city of Kőszeg) is created.
  • A central element of the dissemination are workshops in schools in the regions involved, the results of which are also incorporated into the digital inventory

Method of operation

Overcoming the confrontational culture of remembrance is only possible through cross-border cooperation between historians and educators who are involved as strategic partners. The possibilities of digital media make it easier to establish a new cross-border, regional culture of remembrance.

Funding:

Interreg Österreich-Ungarn 2014-2020

Co-financed by

Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich
Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich

Project Partners

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More info

Everything worth knowing about border(hi)stories can be found on the project website.

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