Marcin Wiatr: Oberschlesien und sein kulturelles Erbe. Erinnerungspolitische Befunde, bildungspolitische Impulse und didaktische Innovationen

Marcin Wiatr contributes to the reconstruction, objectification and advancement of the discourse on educational policy regarding the reconditioning and adoption of the German cultural heritage on-going in Poland since 1989. The project pivots around ‘Upper Silesia’ – both as the subject of an exploration into political memory and as a venue for the virulent developments in educational policy that were incorporated symbolically into the first-ever published history book on the region of Upper Silesia. The aim of the study is to provide a reliable basis for the educational policy debates in both Poland and Germany in order to understand German heritage (among others) as a Europeanization moment within the history of Upper Silesia. The study further aims to illustrate how Upper Silesia can be taught successfully in the classroom as a place of remembrance shaped by multiculturalism.

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