| Abstract [eng] |
The current volume of the series Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, devoted to the subject of the First World War, is supplemented by an interview with the historian Étienne François – a well-known expert on issues of memory and the cultures of remembrance in the field of European and especially German and French history, and the founder of the Centre Marc Bloch (Franco-German Research Centre for the Social Sciences) in Berlin. Together with Hagen Schulze (1943–2014), he edited the three-volume study ‘German Places of Memory’ (Deutsche Erinnerungsorte, 2001). In the period 2005 to 2012, Professor François led a number of international projects devoted to the remembrance of the Napoleonic and Revolutionary Wars in France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia and Poland, as well as in European movies (1815–1945). Here, we speak with Professor François about remembrance of the First World War in Europe. The interview took place at the 19th International Thomas Mann Festival ‘The Breakthrough of Conscience’, the second of the five-year cycle of international cultural festivals ‘The Legacy of Modernity. One Hundred Years after the Great War’, that took place in Nida in July 2015. |
