Is the memory of the First World War alive in Central Europe? How is it remembered and by who? Why is it displaced into oblivion? What can the significance of a war that took place 100 years ago for contemporary Central Europeans be? These are the questions considered by Andrzej Chwalba, Jacek Purchla, Robert Traba, Łukasz Galusek, Claudio Magris, Maciej Górny, Ivan Čolović, Maciej Czerwiński, Krisztián Ungváry, Pavel Kosatík, Lucian Boia, Małgorzata Radkiewicz and Beata K. Nykiel.
Paola De Pietri discusses in a photographic essay the memory and non-memory of the blood-drenched landscape of the theatre of war.
Galina Pawłowa, Béla Rásky, Szymon Piotr Kubiak, Peter Michalík, Mykoła Riabczuk, Andrij Lubka, Tomasz Wiśniewski and Magdalena Link-Lenczowska recommend important books, exhibitions, and cultural events.
Jacek Purchla, Mykoła Riabczuk, Martin Pollack and Janusz Sepioł consider the phenomenon of Galicia and the power of its myth.
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War and Memory. Andrzej Chwalba, Jacek Purchla and Robert Traba talk to Łukasz Galusek
Paola De Pietri – To Face
Claudio Magris – The New Adam’s Bloody Dream
Maciej Górny – A Rather Small War
Ivan Čolović – The Assassination at Sarajevo and the Kosovo Myth
Maciej Czerwiński – The Croatian God Mars and the Serbian Golgotha
Krisztián Ungváry – “No, No, Never!” or on a National Catastrophe
Pavel Kosatík – The Czechs and Czechoslovkia. The State and its Democracy Thanks to the Great War
Lucian Boia – Romania – “So Much Luck!”
Małgorzata Radkiewicz – Women in First World War Photography
Beata K. Nykiel – United by Death. Galician Military Cemeteries
Galina Pavlova – Art in the Face of War
Béla Rásky – How Austria Remembers the First World War
Szymon Piotr Kubiak – The Avant‑garde Marches Out
Peter Michalík – The Metamorphoses of Landscape
Mykola Riabchuk, Andriy Lyubka, Tomasz Wiśniewski, Magdalena Link‑Lenczowska – Worth a Thought
Jacek Purchla – The Myth of Galicia
Mykola Riabchuk – Reinventing Galicia
Martin Pollack – Scenes from Galicia – Terrifying and Gorgeous
Janusz Sepioł – Galicia. Family Mythologies