Brüderlichkeit und Bruderzwist
Mediale Inszenierungen des Aufbaus und des Niedergangs politischer Gemeinschaften in Ost- und Südosteuropa
Davor Beganović, Anna Bohn, Milka Car, Ivan Čolović, Dittmar Dahlmann, Jan Dutoit, Jean-Claude Fombaron, Ruza Fotiadis, Aida Gavric, Anke Hilbrenner, Aleksandar Jakir, Bohunka Kokleksová, Mirt Komel, Claudia Kraft, Kristin Lindemann, Renata Makarska, Nenad Makuljevic, Katarina Mohar, Julia Obertreis, Tatjana Petzer, Milan Popadic, Boris Previsic Mongelli, Jan Randák, Andrea Rehling, Ljiljana Reinkowski, Stefan Rohdewald, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Manuela Schwärzler, Tatjana Simeunovic, Stefan Troebst, Jugoslav Vlahovic, Christian Voss, Katrin Winkler, Dmitri Zakharine, Tanja Zimmermann, Andrea Zink
Whenever different social strata, religious communities, ethnic groups or nations were to be united in one political movement or in one state in Eastern Europe, the initiators usually appealed to their purported “brotherliness”. Various overarching common traits were invoked, different traditions were called into action: from early Christianity to communism, from secret associations to proletarian alliances and partisan associations, from blood relationships (probratimstvo) to multinational states (Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), from pan-Slavism in all its forms to Tito’s “Third Way”. The rhetoric and media enactments spanned from the commitment to metaphorical brotherly love to enforced affiliations to extortionate “family clans” that asserted their political goals through bio-politics and racism.
