Episodes
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'Sound of Division' is a podcast from the 'In Between?' 2022 series, created by an international group of European students that took part in workshops and study visit in the Italian-Slovenian borderland region in July 2022.
When we look at a border, we usually see two separate sides, each of them with the markers of individuality, distinctiveness and difference. But the case of Gorizia and Nova Gorica is an exceptional one, as cultures, traditions and histories cannot be unanimously narrated, explained and passed down onto newer generations. Throughout the podcast a broad range of interconnected topics is covered, from historical contexts and different perceptions within the borderland, through contemporary issues and politics of separation, to the grand joint project – becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2025, and the concerns that come along with it.
Produced by: Federico Cormaci, Anela Dumonjić, Lena Fuhrmann, Nina Glavan, Benjamin Hoffmann, Roberta Ida Immenschuh, Urban Makorič, Jadwiga Mik and Anna Wachowiak (ENRS) with the support of Bartosz Panek, FreeRange Productions.
With the contribution of Lucia Pillon, Mara Cernic, team of GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica.
Project "In Between?" 2022 is co-funded by European Union.
The series of study visits 'In Between?', initiated in April 2016 by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, draws on from the methodology of oral history. So far, more than 130 young people (under 26 years of age) have participated in seven editions of the project and visited a total of 22 multicultural regions of Europe.
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'Everyone has their own Alsace' is a podcast from the 'In Between?' 2022 series, created by an international group of European students that took part in workshops and study visit in the French-German borderland region in July 2022.
The participants of the project spent one week next to the bucolic town Niederbronn-les-Bains 40 km north of Strasbourg. The authors of the podcast were visiting historic sites and interviewing local partners about their identity living in a region on the French-German borderland of very special and traumatic experiences in 20th century history. Learn more about their own reflection about borderland identity, historic memory and the role of local language and culture.
Produced by: Gabriel Marisole Basso-Moro, Amanda Baxová, Aline Deprez, Leonie Koll, Carol Viciano Martorell, Elene Shapatava, Gabriel Zvîncă and Annemarie Franke (ENRS) with the support of John Beauchamp, FreeRange Productions.
With the contribution of Antoine Deprez, Anne Guillier, Lise Pommois, Annelise Wendling and Paul.
Special thanks to Joelle Winter from the Centre International Albert Schweitzer.
The series of study visits 'In Between?', initiated in April 2016 by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, draws on from the methodology of oral history. So far, more than 130 young people (under 26 years of age) have participated in seven editions of the project and visited a total of 22 multicultural regions of Europe.
Project 'In Between?' 2022 is co-funded by the European Union.
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'Bridges over the Olza' is a podcast from the 'In Between?' 2022 series, created by an international group of European students that took part in workshops and study visit in the Polish-Czech borderland region in July 2022.
There are two bridges crossing the Olza river, which connect Cieszyn in Poland and Český Těšín in the Czech Republic: the Bridge of Friendship and the Bridge of Freedom. Both towns were once one, but since the last century, they have been divided by borderlines. The history of the region is preserved in the local Silesian dialect as well as other remnants of the old order. What are those remnants? How did the border look like after Poland and Czech Republic joined Schengen? How does it manifest today in peoples’ lives and minds?
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Dorota Błaszczyk, Julia Ciołek, Adam Crhák, Magda Kopańska, McCall Mash, Luděk Němec, Ema Polívková, Veronika Warzycha, Maciej Zawistowski with the support of Beata Tomczyk (ENRS) and Jarosław Kociszewski, FreeRange Productions.
With the contribution of Aleksandra Błahut-Kowalczyk, Petr Marciniak, Pavel Peč, Michał Przywara and Roman Wirth
The series of study visits 'In Between?', initiated in April 2016 by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, draws on from the methodology of oral history. So far, more than 130 young people (under 26 years of age) have participated in seven editions of the project and visited a total of 22 multicultural regions of Europe.
Project 'In Between?' 2022 is co-funded by the European Union.
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We are in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, a small North European country, which for the first time emerged as an independent state right after the Great War. This is a story of a small Baltic nation which seized the opportunity to become independent of two great European powers, Germany and Russia. Tallinn was the biggest city in the area at that time. Its strategic importance played a crucial role in Estonian War of Independence.
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With a population of over half a milion, today’s capital of Lithuania boasts a 700 year history. You may notice it without any effort, looking at one of the monuments standing on a square next to the cathedral. A massive bronze sculpture of the 14th century Grand Duke Gediminas is placed near a horse. The monarch holds a sword in his left hand and blesses the city with his right hand. During his rule, the area of Lithuania doubled in size. Duke Gediminas, as tourist brochures remind us, created a strong and influential state and extended its power to the East and to the South.
In late 19th and early 20th century, the modern Lithuanian national movement had no doubt where the capital city of a new state should be established. But after the Grat War, Vilnius was attached to Poland in 1922. It was perceived in Lithuania as occupation. The loss of this city became a collective trauma that deeply affected Lithuanian identity.
The Lithuanian minority in interwar Vilnius according to censuses held by the Polish authorities represented about 1 per cent of the total population of the city. They were not numerous, but well organized – most of them belonged to the intelligentsia, they had their own theatre, political parties, a hospital, private schools, newspapers, art exhibitions. Leaders of the Lithuanian community belonged to the generation educated in the former Russian empire. In their work, they especially cared for the language.
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Roztocze, region położony na granicy polsko-ukraińskiej, to miejsce, w którym niegdyś łączyły się losy Polaków, Ukraińców i Żydów. Te czasy jednak minęły, a pozostały po nich jedynie nostalgia i gorycz. Niniejszy podcast przedstawia różne punkty widzenia na to, czym jest pogranicze.
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Kaunas was a relatively minor and neglected city which happened to became a capital of the new Lithuanian state after the Great War. By 1920, with Vilnius under Polish military control, it assumed this unique, temporary status. Geopolitical tensions and territorial conflicts, however, fostered growth and urban development of the city, where carriages and horse carts crossing the central Mud and Goose Streets were considered the most developed means of public transport.
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In the shadows of the Beskid Mountains ethnic minorities try to keep their identities alive. What are the challenges for Rusyns and Lemkos on the Polish–Slovak border? How do activists save the heritage of the Jewish community? How does it feel like to be in between a violent past and a hopeful future?
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Today, Vienna is one of the best cities in the world to live in. In a number of rankings, it usually takes the top spot, but always somewhere on the podium. A well-developed system of flat rentals, six underground lines, a developed labour market, as well as a lot of greenery and excellent museums - all of these attest to the city's rank today. Prosperity can also be seen in the period at the end of the third wave of the pandemic - every few hundred metres in the very centre you can take a free coronavirus test.
The word that dominated the period after the Great War was rationing. The journalist and writer Joseph Roth captured the atmosphere of the winter of 1918 and the spring of 1919 in a series of newspaper columns. Describing the man of those times, he noted that he was a person "in shock with a broken back". Vienna was not only ill, but also starving.
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Profesor Adam Kopciowski, badacz historii lubelskich Żydów, opowiada o sytuacji tej społeczności w pierwszych latach II RP i wysuwa hipotezę dotyczącą styku świata żydowskiego i chrześcijańskiego. Najtrwalsze ślady międzykulturowych i międzyreligijnych relacji zakonserwował język. Polszczyzna przejmowała słowa z hebrajskiego i jidysz - i odwrotnie. Działo się to przede wszystkim w knajpach i spelunach na granicy dwóch lubelskich dzielnic: żydowskiego Podzamcza i chrześcijańskiego Śródmieścia, czyli na ulicy Lubartowskiej. Ale nie tylko. Miejscem międzykulturowej integracji okazywały się więzienne cele.
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Located in the center of the country, Lublin was a laboratory for Polish multiculturalism after the end of World War I. How did different worlds - mainly Polish and Jewish - lived together in the city? What was the position of the Evangelicals, and what of the Orthodox? Does the history of Lublin's multiculturalism continue today?
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Znajdujący się w centrum kraju Lublin był po zakończeniu I wojny światowej laboratorium polskiej wielokulturowości. Jak ze sobą żyły w mieście różne światy - głównie polski i żydowski? Jakie miejsce zajmowali ewangelicy, a jakie prawosławni? Czy historia wielokulturowości Lublina znajduje współczesną kontynuację?