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      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2019

        Taubenblut. Die Siedler

        Eine sächsisch-polnische Familiengeschichte (1697–1939)

        by Bosri, Maria

        For centuries young pigeons were considered a delicacy. Broth boiled from them allowed sick people to recover and women in childbed to regain their strength. Not so in times of war. Then the farmers slaughtered all the pigeons in no time at all so that their flight would not show the plundering troops the way to the farms. Mostly in vain. Now the blood of women and girls also flowed, whom the soldiers jokingly called their pigeons before they committed suicide. And there have been many wars over the last centuries. Even on the territory of the then Polish noble republic.In 1698, after the election of Augustus the Strong as Polish king, five Saxon peasant families of Lutheran faith were resettled in Poland. They were to grow tartufflis (potatoes). A risky enterprise in the arch-catholic country. Lutherans were still considered heretics here. Near Petrikau (today Piotrków Trybunalski) they lived for almost 250 years in more or less good Polish and Jewish neighbourhood. And, depending on the ruler, in prosperity or in need. This was their home. Until Hitler came to power.

      • March 2020

        Dobrudja

        German Settlers between the Danube and the Black Sea

        by Josef Sallanz

        The historical region between the Danube delta and the mountainous landscape Ludogorie today is structured as a result of the demarcation of 1940 which divided the region into the North Dobrudja in Romania and the South Dobrudja in Bulgaria. Since ancient times, people have roamed the steppes at the Black Sea towards the south and left a mixture of languages, denominations and everyday culture. From the 7th century BC Greek sailors founded trading colonies on the coast such as Tomis, the present day Constanta, Romanian Constanţa. After 500 years under Ottoman rule in the middle of the 19th century the first Germans came from Bessarabia, bordering the Danube to the north, from the governorate Kherson, from Poland, Volhynia, Galicia and the Caucasus. Reasons were land scarcity, loss of privileges and a intensified russification policy. Today in the Dobrudja live Tatars, Bulgarians, Turks, Lipovans, Ukrainians, Greeks, Germans and Roma next to more than ninety percent Romanians. The historian Josef Sallanz shows which cultural traditions still today shape the region.

      • Romance
        May 2019

        Das Geheimnis einer Bruderliebe - Un Amore Italiano

        Italienische Liebesgeschichten Bd. 5

        by Mara Raabe

        Zwei Brüder, Eike und Malte Petersen, wachsen als Söhne des Besitzers des „Hotel Mariana“ in Sylt auf. Während Malte den elterlichen Betrieb weiterführt, kauft Eike sich ein Hotel in Viareggio in der Toskana, das er ebenfalls „Hotel Mariana“ nennt.Ein One-Night-Stand mit Folgen während der Karnevalszeit bringt Eike in große Nöte. Doch auch Eva, seine Ehefrau, hat ein dunkles Geheimnis mit schwerwiegenden Folgen für das Hotel.Was wird aus Katharina Palmer, der Journalistin für Hotelbewertungen, und ihrem ungeborenen Kind? Wird sie es behalten? Und wie kann Malte in dieser Situation seinem Bruder helfen?

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