About the project
"In the middle of the war. The Regensburg prisoner of war camp during the First World War"
www.mitten-im-krieg-1914-18.net (external link, opens in a new window)
Research cooperation between the University of Regensburg, Chair of French language and literature I (Prof. Dr. von Treskow), and the Regensburg State Library on the Regensburg prisoner of war camp and the journal Le Pour et le Contre, written by French prisoners of war between July 1916 and April 1917. The research includes other german and french newspapers, in Bavaria for example Baracke ! Journal - de Prisonniers de France from Amberg.
Financial support (third-party funding) from the City of Regensburg, Department of Culture Co-operation with the Institut français, Munich
Conference "Internment during the First World War in Germany, France and Great Britain/British Empire: Transculturality - Cultures croisées -Entangled History as international cultural heritage today"
Ateliers de doctorants "La littérature de I'internement des années 1914 à 1918, 7 mai 2018, Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou
Final theses in this research area
- Anna-Theresa Wolferstetter, Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit im Dienst fürs Vaterland - Zu Darstellung und Zweck von Geschlechterbildern in Kinderbüchern des Ersten Weltkriegs am Beispiel von Bécassine pendant la Grande Guerre und Der Kriegs-Struwwelpeter (B.A.), 2019
- Marie Pflüger, Lettres privées non-censurées d'un prisonnier francais de la première guerre mondiale. Transcription et commentaire de documents inédits des archives de la Stadtbibliothek Amberg (B.A.), 2015
- Dominik Bohmann, The Carnet trouvé in the prisoners' newspaper Le Pour et le Contre (term paper), 2014
- Velia Kreienbring, Religion, church and Christian ritual as themes in the French prisoner magazine Le Pour et le Contre (1916-17) (B.A.), 2013