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Customs, traditional costumes and folk songs are regarded as the epitome of "folk culture". They were and still are attributed an aesthetic value. They simply seem beautiful - precisely because they appear so original and barely touched by modernity.

However, perceiving "folk culture" as beautiful is only the result of a view shaped by modern viewing habits and ideologies. This is because the supposedly simple is often exaggerated in contrast to the culture of the bourgeois classes or capitalist commodity culture.



The exhibition shows aestheticized representations of folk culture from the Banat, Transylvania and the Egerland from the 1920s to the 1960s. It reveals how the "folk culture" of the German-speaking population in and from Eastern Europe was used for political purposes - even after 1945.

A traveling exhibition of the Institute for Cultural Analysis of the Germans of Eastern Europe (IKDE), Freiburg. Financed by funds from the Ministry of the Interior, Digitization and Municipalities, provided by the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg.