Die «Konfliktgemeinschaft» Mitteleuropas im Spannungsfeld zwischen Mono- und Transkulturalität
The «Community of Conflict» in Central Europe in the tense Atmosphere of Mono- and Transculturalism

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the conflict between Germans and Czechs sparked by the language question, exploring its historical roots and focusing particularly on the 20th century. Methodology from cultural studies and sociology is applied. As witnesses of these historical processes, two people have their say: first, the journalist Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, with her report on the expulsion of the German-Bohemian aristocracy from Prague in the year 1945, and second, the writer and diplomat Jiří Gruša who looks back at the representatives of the anti-ideological generation in Czechoslovakia, who lost their civil rights in the time of the normalizace. A possible way of avoiding a repetition of this fatal process involves the concept of Ähnlichkeit (resemblance), which is derived from philosophy (Wittgenstein) and cognitive psychology (Roach).

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