Białoruś w niemieckojęzycznych publikacjach w latach 1910–1930
German publications concerning Belarus in 1910–1930

Summary/Abstract: The article reports on German language publications concerning Belarus in the period of 1910–1930. During World War One, for the first time, literature specialized in geography, economics, history and national minorities of Belarus was published in Germany and Austro-Hungary. The reason of this increased attention to Belarus was the German occupation of some territories of Western Belarus from autumn 1915 to February 1918. The German authorities of the so called military district Ober Ost [Upper East] supported the building of a civil administration, school system and press in national languages, often in accordance with the requirements of Belarusian national movement. In the German armed forces were also representatives of the young German cultural elite – not only war correspondents, but also writers, poets, philologists, painters, art historians, archaeologists, geographers and economists, who especially in Vilnius became acquainted not only with Belarusian intellectuals but also with the everyday life of Belarusian population, its culture, language, folklore and history. In the interwar years many of these intellectuals assimilated their war experiences in a lot of publications in the fields of regional studies, belles lettres, linguistics, art history and geography. Mainly in the twenties some Belarusian intellectuals (philologists, historians, literary critics) published their results of research in German publishing houses and periodicals.

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