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• Kulturerbe oder Kriegsspuren? Ein Fallbeispiel vom Vergessen bis zur Erinnerung und ’Patrimonisierung’

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  Melinda Marinka

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  140

  Im Beitrag wurde die Erinnerung an das Zwangsarbeitslager in Tiszalök (Oberen Theißgebiet, Ungarn) im gesellschaftlichen, historischen und ethnischen Kontext dargestellt. Als erster Schritt wird die Frage gestellt, ob man von Kulturerbe oder einfach von Kriegsspuren sprechen kann, wenn man die mit dem Krieg zusammenhängenden Gegebenheiten erforscht. Nach dem theoretischen Einleitung über Begriffe Erinnerung, Vergessen und Patrimonisierung gibt die Autorin eine kurze historische Überblick über die Zeit nach der Auflösung von Zwangsarbeitslagern. Dann wurde das Zwangsarbeitslager in der Gemeinde Tiszalök nicht nur aus der Perspektive der ungarndeutschen Erinnerungs­kultur in den Blick nehmen, sonder auch aus der Perspektive einer Frau, die nicht zur imaginierten/erfundenen ungarndeutschen Gemein­schaft gehörte, dargestellt wurde. Durch einen Erinnerungsstück aus Tiszalök und durch die Lebensgeschichte dieser Frau wurde Vergessenheit als Fähigkeit zum Überleben, und Gegenstände aus dem Lager als Teil der Patrimonisierung interpretiert.

• The Diversity of Knowledge Concerning Geographical Areas Based on Surveys Conducted in Institutions of Primary Education in Hungary

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  Eszter Lupfer-Juhász

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  My study will discuss the Hungarian public education system, more specifically, the knowledge about and the measurement of the concept of geographical areas as they appear in the subject Hon- és népismeret [approximately: Our Homeland and Its People(s)] in the Hungarian primary education system. The cultural landscape formed by human activity is an important part of Hon- és népismeret education, which also includes knowledge of spatiality, ethnographic geographical areas and maps.

  In my research, I was interested what students taking Hon- és népismeret courses think and know about geographical areas; moreover, if they can use maps and place major Hungarian and ethnographic geographical areas (provinces) on blind maps. In my search, I have conducted a survey among students learning Hon- és népismeret in primary schools in Debrecen with the aim of measuring their knowledge of geographical areas and ethnographic geographical areas, especially related to the use of maps. So, in my study, I present all the tasks of the survey and the students’ answers. Furthermore, I describe the method used during the survey and the data processing.

• Legends of a Transylvanian Shrine to the Virgin Mary

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  My paper presents a legend tradition related to a well-known Hungarian (Transyl­vanian) place of pilgrimage. Csíksomlyó (Miercurea–Ciuc/Sumuleu) – cur­rently part of Romania ‒ has become a significant place of pilgrimage in the 20^th century, similarly to Austria’s Mariazell, Spain’s Santiago de Compostela, the Orthodox Church’s Athos, or the main international shrines to the Virgin Mary (Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje). Around this famous pilgrimage place known from the 15^th century a thematically rich legend circle has developed over the centuries, typical of Hungarian folklore, which abounds in historical and narrative traditions. At the centre of the group of legends stands the statue of the Virgin Mary, of gothic origin, the miraculous reputation of which is complemented by several historical legend themes (foundational traditions, wars, heroes and saints, crime and punish­ment and other legend motifs inspired by the sacred place). I highlight the most important historical perspectives, the chronological characteristics, the geographical distribution and, above all, the typological diversity of these legends. The legend circle of the shrine of Csíksomlyó in Romania is the totality of the related narrative traditions, that is to say, both the hundred-year-old miracle stories found in written form in different historical sources, and the recent folklore texts collected from oral tradi­tion. Although the time and the circumstances of the records differ significantly, the aim of the narration and the topic of the legends are the same. The legends about the shrine – separated into the given thematic groups – are an organic part of the Catalogue of Hungarian Historical Legends.

• Marginalized Texts of a Glorified Genre: The Valorization of the (Folk)tale in Hungary

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  147

  Attention towards and interest in the genre of the tale began rather belatedly in Hungarian culture. The paper provides a concise overview of the history of assigning value to this narrative genre: how it transformed from a trivial genre of idle amusement of the uneducated people into a precious cultural item that is an essential part of national heritage being safeguarded and studied from a number of perspectives. Parallel with the rise of the genre, a decline of the earliest known tales has taken place due to certain authenticity criteria retrospectively applied by newly formed disciplines as well as the standardization and naturalization of a specific mode of narration.

• Competing Nationality Politics Targeting German Communities at the Hungarian-Romanian Border Zone after the Great War

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  Levente Szilágyi

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  141

  In my study, I focus on the events that took place in the short period after the Great War ended (1918) and before the consolidation of Romanian power in the Hungarian-Romanian Border Commission (1922) from the point of view of the artificially created ethnic category: the Satu Mare Swabians or Sathmar Swabians. The historiography related to the “ethnographic” aspects of these events have appeared multiple times and in several contexts and forms in the years since. However, the question of ethnicity has not arisen in relation to the population of German descent, but rather in relation to the Hungarian-speaking Greek Catholic communities of Romanian and Rusyn/Ruthenian origin who were treated by the Romanian side as Magyarized Romanians. Following this example, the Romanians later began to collect data on the Magyarized Germans, which they then presented to the Border Commission. Germans living in the territory witnessed a strong competition between identity politics and discourse supported by rival Hungarian and Romanian states. One of the key features of this rivalry was the intensive propaganda activity promoted by both the Romanian and the Hungarian authorities to gain territories to the detriment of the other.