The Danube Swabian Central Museum publishes exhibition catalogs and publishes research results in an understandable and appealing way. You can get most of our publications in our museum store.
Heavy fabric
Women – Traditional Costume – Life Stories
Ed. Henrike Hampe, Danube Swabian Central Museum
2024 / Price € 19.80
Clothes are part of our personality. They show who we are, who we want to be – or should be. Before garments were mass-produced and marketed globally, every article of clothing was a unique item created for a specific person, and the Danube-Swabian outfits in this catalogue date from that time. They show the close relationship of women to their apparel – from work clothes to bridal trousseaus, from traditional costume for girls to funeral dress – and every ensemble recounts a female life story between 1880 and 1990.. Woven into the fabric are experiences of pride and deference, loss and death, hope and new beginnings. The items of clothing reflect the everyday lives of their wearers as well as their rural and multicultural society. But they also show the traces of extreme experiences such as war and forced migration. The book also contains pictures of traditional costumes by the Austrian artist Erna Piffl (1904 – 1987) and places them in the National Socialist context.
Details of the book
Ed. Henrike Hampe, Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
Ulm 2024
156 pages with numerous color illustrations
Bilingual: German, English
ISBN 978-3-00-079622-7
Price € 19.80
Art by the stream
Art on the Stream
Ed. Swantje Volkmann, Márton Méhes
2021 / Price € 20.00
Kunst am Strom should arouse curiosity about the artistic neighborhoods in the Danube region. The traveling exhibition shows parallelisms, identities and differences and thus an open and multifaceted insight into artistic positions across generations and art forms.
Details of the book
Ed. Swantje Volkman, Márton Méhes
Ulm 2021
203 pages, numerous illustrations
ISBN 978-3-00_0660002-3
Price € 20.00
Danube views
Ungarische Kunst aus Szentendre
Christian Glass, Andrea Vándor
2016 / Price €12.90
The exhibition of the same name at the DZM has resulted in an illustrated book. This is the first German-language overview of the “Montmartre of the Danube” (Claudio Magris). As the nucleus of modern Hungarian art and still a lively artist colony, the small town of Szentendre combines 90 years of artistic creativity in the heart of Europe. From the wide range of works created there, the volume selects those that deal with the city and the nearby Danube.
During the exhibition in Ulm, three contemporary artists (Lajos Csontó, Kamilla Szíj, Ottó Vincze) entered into a dialogue about these pictures. As the volume documents, their artistic interventions created a shimmering tension between today and yesterday and opened up new perspectives for visitors.
This interplay is supplemented by the works entitled “Donauwelten” by students from Ulm, which were created during the exhibition. Their fresh and creative approaches effortlessly bridge the gap between Ulm and Szentendre, 1000 kilometers away by river
Details of the book
Christian Glass, Andrea Vandor
Ulm 2016
German/English, 184 pages with approx. 100 color photographs, Verlag Verlag Klemm + Oelschläger
ISBN 978-3-00-052553-7
Price 12,90 €
Migration im Donauraum
Die Ansiedlung der Deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert
Ed. Christian Glass
2012 / Price €16.80
Baden-Württemberg is now considered an immigration country. But 300 years ago people emigrated from the south-west of Germany because they saw no future here. In 1712 the first families on Ulmer Schachteln dared to travel down the Danube to Hungary to start a new life there. They also had the culture of their regions of origin with them. Through the centuries-long exchange between the emigrants, who were called “Swabians” in Hungary (regardless of where they came from), and the peoples of south-eastern Europe, a new culture emerged – that of the Danube Swabians. Recent research corrects common perceptions of emigration that are heavily influenced by stereotypes, wishful thinking and prejudice. Using objects, images and documents from ten museums in four countries, the volume conveys a complex picture of the emigration process.
Funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg on the occasion of the 60th state anniversary and the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture of the European Commission
Romanian edition: Migratia înspre spatiul Dunarean. Colonizarea germanilor în seculul al 18-lea ISBN: 978-606-8389-21-9
Details of the book
Ed. Christian Glass
Ulm 2012
128 pages, numerous illustrations with an introduction by Gerhard Seewann
ISBN 978-3-88294-441-9
Price €16.80
Um 1900 - Kroatische Kunst im europäischen Kontext
Aus der Sammlung der Modernen Galerie Zagreb
Ed. Christian Glass, Biserka Rauter Plancic
2011 / Price € 10.00
Romanian edition: Migratia înspre spatiul Dunarean. Colonizarea germanilor în seculul al 18-lea ISBN: 978-606-8389-21-9
The works of art reflect the entire range of modern European art: At the end of the 19th century, young Croatian artists turned away from the rigid traditions of academic painting and opened themselves to a wide variety of styles, which they encountered on their study trips and travels through Europe to Munich, Vienna, Prague , Paris or Italy.
Details of the book
Ed. Christian Glass, Biserka Rauter Plancic
Ulm 2011
200 pages, numerous illustrations with contributions by Biserka Rauter Plancic and Roncevic Elezovic
ISBN 978-3-00-035578-3
Price € 10.00
Eisenhut
Kunst und Leben von Franz Eisenhut
Ed. Subotica City Museum, Danube Swabian Central Museum
2007 / Price € 10.00
In 2007, the Danube-Swabian painter Franz Eisenhut, who was known during his lifetime in the monarchy for his oriental scenes and his monumental painting “The Battle of Senta” in the town hall of Sombor, was honored with a large exhibition in the Subotica City Museum. In Germany, the published catalog can only be obtained from the DZM museum shop.
Details of the book
Ed. Subotica City Museum, Danube Swabian Central Museum
Subotica 2007
252 pages, illustrations
ISBN 978-86-85829-06-2
Price 10,00 €
Johnny Weissmuller
Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
2004 / Price € 4.00
On the occasion of the 100th On the occasion of the birthday of Johnny Weissmüller (1904-1984), the Donauschwaebisches Zentralmuseum put on an exhibition about the life of the world-famous swimmer and Tarzand actor, who was born in the Banat.
Details of the book
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
Ulm 2004
46 pages, illustrations
Price € 4.00
Dieter Mammel
Lifeline
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
2024 / Price € 48.00
In 2015, Dieter Mammel witnessed the arrival of Syrian refugees on the island of Kos.
In the years that followed, the Berlin painter dealt with his own family’s story of flight, the uprooting associated with it and the new beginning in another country.
The exhibition tour LIFELINE, which traces the family’s journey through life, and the accompanying catalog show the pictures created as part of this exploration and question the themes of origin, flight and memory as timeless constants of human experience.
Mammel paints with ink on unprimed, wet canvas.
The focus is always on just one color, on light and shadow.
It almost seems as if the motifs are melting away – and with them time and memory.
Mammel tries to capture them with his brush.
His paintings bear witness to the difficulty of this endeavor, but also to the necessity and beauty of the attempt itself.
Details of the book
Ed. Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum Ulm
2024
160 pages with numerous color illustrations, hardcover
Bilingual: German, English
ISBN 978-3-7356-0979-3
Price € 48.00
Danube Swabians
Deutsche Siedler in Südosteuropa
Gerhard Seewann, Michael Portmann
2018 / Price €19.80
Compact presentation of the history of all Danube Swabians from the settlement to the present. The historians Gerhard Seewann and Michael Portmann have written an easy-to-read manual on 400 pages that reflects the current state of research. The book deals with all settlement areas and arranges the history of the Germans between Budapest and Belgrade in the major political and social currents of the last three centuries. A small but important chapter in European history!
The DZM is a partner of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe and has researched almost 300 illustrations for the book and contributed from the museum’s holdings.
Details of the book
Gerhard Seewann, Michael Portman
2018, German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe e.V.
400 pages with over 300 illustrations
Price 19,80 €
Unter Anderen
Donauschwaben im südöstlichen Europa heute mit Fotografien von Dragoljub Zamurović
Ed. by Christian Glass, Danube Swabian Central Museum
2016 / price €19.80
Dragoljub Zamurović, born in Niš (Serbia) in 1947, lives as a freelance photographer in Belgrade. Since 1988 he has published for many years in cooperation with the French picture agency Gamma under the pseudonym Art Zamur for international magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Paris-Match, Figaro Magazine, Geo, Europeo, National Geographic. To date, Zamurović has published 14 photo books about landscapes, cities and countries in Southeastern Europe and about the Roma people.
The illustrated book accompanying the exhibition contains sixty photographic portraits of Danube Swabians as well as descriptions of their living conditions. Hans Fernbach, Otto Heinek, Renata Trischler and Ralph Menz introduce the current situation of the German minority in Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia. On his travels, Dragoljub Zamurović met very different people, whose stories he wrote down. The result was a unique visual documentation that unites sixty Danube Swabian biographies between Budapest and Belgrade. Zamurović’s impressive photographs and the interviews that the Danube Swabian Central Museum conducted with the portrayed Danube Swabians give insights into their everyday lives “among others”.
Details of the book
Ed. Christian Glass, Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
Ulm 2016
German/English, 184 pages with approx. 100 color photographs
Verlag Klemm + Oelschläger
ISBN 978-3-86281-4
Price €19.80
Der Mensch. Der Fluss.
Malerei aus den Donauländern
Ed. Martin Rill
2011 / Price € 5.00
Inspired by the Danube as the second longest river in Europe, an experiment began in autumn 2011. Artists from the Danube countries were asked to visualize their view of the river and the people with the medium of painting. Nine curators selected 18 artists who present the art and culture of their home country and contribute to the dialogue about identity and community in a growing Europe. The result is an exhibition that shows the view of young cultural workers on the river and its people.
Details of the book
Ed. Martin Rill
Ulm 2011
144 pages, numerous illustrations with contributions by Bozhidar Boyadzhiev, Silvia Eiblmayr, Vladimir Frelih, Reinhard Fritz, Roman Popelár, Javor Rašajski, Brigitte Reinhardt, Martin Rill, Ioan Stendl, Jürgen Walter, Ádám Zoltán
ISBN 978-3-88294-429-7
Price € 5.00
Temeswar / Timişoara
Klein Wien an der Bega
Ed. Martin Rill, Dan Leopold Ciobotaru
2010 / Price € 6.00
Located on the Bega River, the city of Timişoara has a history of more than a thousand years and has been the capital of the Banat since the early Middle Ages. In the late Middle Ages, the settlement developed into a city, becoming a fortress and temporary residence of the Hungarian king in 1212. Between 1552 and 1716 it fell under Ottoman rule. After its liberation by the Habsburg troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy, the city was re-established. Timişoara and the Banat have been part of Romania since 1918. Timişoara has developed into a multicultural city in the course of history and has also been referred to as “Little Vienna on the Bega”. In 1989 the signal for the overthrow of the communist dictatorship came from Timişoara. From here the resistance spread across the whole country.
Details of the book
Ed. Martin Rill, Dan Leopold Ciobotaru
Ulm 2010
63 pages, numerous illustrations
ISBN 978-3-88294-413-6
Price € 6.00
Aktuelle Kunst aus Ungarn
László Fehér, István Haász, Ilona Keserü Ilona, Károly Klimó
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
2006 / Price € 9.00
The four Budapest painters and graphic artists often refer to Hungarian artists before and after the Second World War, such as László Moholy-Nagy, Lajos Kassák or Viktor Vasarely. All four – born between 1933 and 1953 – belong to the Hungarian artists who were already active in socialist Hungary before 1989. After the fall of the Wall, they did not adapt to western trends, but consistently continued on their path.
Details of the book
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
Ulm 2006/2007
136 pages, illustrations
ISBN 963-06-1359-0
Price € 9.00
Hausgeschichten
Deutsche Spuren in den Donauländern
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
2002 / Price 10,00 €
Twelve residential buildings, with their residents sensitively portrayed by Martin Rosswog, open up a panorama of living conditions in four Danube countries (Germany, Hungary, Serbia and Romania). At the same time, the stories told about it show how much the history and culture of Central and Southeast Europe has been influenced by migration, the coexistence of different ethnic groups and political upheavals over the past 300 years. The “House Stories” exhibition was awarded the Romanian culture prize “Romulus Vuia” in 2003.
Details of the book
Ed. Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
heidelberg 20022006/2007
240 pages, numerous illustrations with photographs by Martin Rosswog
ISBN 3-89904-039-2
Price 10,00 €
Neusatz / Novi Sad
Kleine Stadtgeschichte
Ágnes Ózer
2022 / Price 14,95 €
Perched on a rock above the Danube, Peterwardein Fortress is the landmark of Neusatz. Three bridges connect the districts to the right and left of the river. The city has had an eventful history, changing its nationality several times and experiencing wars, most recently in 1999. Due to the coexistence of many different ethnic groups, including Danube Swabians, the city developed its own unique character.
The author of the town history is Ágnes Ózer, a historian living in Neusatz. She served as curator at the City Museum from 1979 to 2011 and from 2017 until her retirement, where she curated several exhibitions on the city’s history.
From 2012 to 2017 she was the director of the Museum of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Neusatz.
The Little History of the City also contains a literary essay by László Végel about the period between the Second World War and the present in Novi Sad. Végel belongs to the Hungarian minority. He is an important literary voice in Serbia and promotes cultural diversity in his hometown
Details of the book
Ágnes Ózer
2018, Danube Swabian Central Museum
176 pages.
35 illustrations with contribution by László Végel
Verlag Friedrich Pustet
Price € 14.95
On the "Disappearance of the German-speaking Minorities
Ein schwieriges Kapitel in der Geschichte Jugoslawiens 1941 - 1955
Ed. Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation / Danube Swabian Central Museum
2016 / Price €30.00 (German/Serbian in slipcase)
Escape, internment and deportation of the Danube Swabians after the Second World War were taboo subjects in Yugoslavia. If at all, they spoke of their “disappearance” – obscuring the actual events. The multilingual conference volume brings together for the first time the research of seventeen renowned scientists from five countries, who shed light on a difficult chapter of German-Yugoslav history from different perspectives.
Details of the book
Ed. Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung / Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
Berlin / Ulm 2016
Conference proceedings with 17 contributions from five countries, 230 pp. (German part) and 207 p. (part in Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian), 92 illustrations
Price € 15.00
Kinderwelten entlang der Donau
Vom Aufwachsen als Deutsche in einer multiethnischen Region
Ed. Henrike Hampe
2015 / Price € 14.80
How do children and young people live in a multicultural society? Answers to this can be found in a part of Europe in which the coexistence and coexistence of different languages, denominations and lifestyles has been normal for centuries. On the middle reaches of the Danube, Germans have also lived for generations in a functioning cosmos of cultural diversity. The so-called Danube Swabians grew up in this world from an early age. For the first time, the book offers an overview of the life of Danube-Swabian children and young people in the first half of the 20th century. Descriptions by eyewitnesses are combined with a wealth of historical photographs and everyday objects to create a multifaceted picture that seems distant and close to us at the same time.
Details of the book
Ed. Henrike Hampe
Ulm 2015
160 pages with numerous illustrations
ISBN 978-3-88294-467-9
Price €14.80
Gerd Fabrius
Mythos Heimat – Heimat im Mythos
Ed. Christian Glass
2011 / Price 9,90 €
Born in Bucharest in 1940, the painter and woodcutter Gert Fabritius has lived and worked in south-west Germany since 1977. In his powerful, colorful, expansive images and installations, he traces the connection between home and myth.
Details of the book
Ed. Christian Glass
Bonn 2011
64 pages, numerous illustrations with a contribution by Irmgard Sedler
ISBN 978-3-00-035055-9
Price € 9.90
Home in a suitcase
Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene aus Südosteuropa im Nachkriegsdeutschland
Ed. Henrike Hampe
2008 / Price € 5.00
The book recalls the beginnings of the integration of more than 12 million refugees from the east in post-war Germany, which in hindsight seems so successful. They included around 200,000 Danube Swabians. Received with suspicion by many locals, rejected as “beggars” and “gypsies” and torn from their familiar living environment, they were only able to gain a foothold here by largely adapting. Based on concrete case histories, the book tells sensitively and informatively about the experiences of the refugees between their old and new homeland. Background information is provided by articles written by experts about refugees and expellees in Baden-Württemberg, as well as about the luggage the expellees brought with them.
Details of the book
Ed. Henrike Hampe
Ulm 2008
64 pages, numerous illustrations with a contribution by Christian Glass, Elisabeth Fendl and Henrike Hampe
ISBN 978-3-00-025119-1
Price € 5.00
Danube
Eine Künstlerreise zum Schwarzen Meer
Ed. Danube Swabian Central Museum
2005 / Price 12,00 €
Willi Weiner and David Willen traveled down the Danube in August 2002 until they reached the Black Sea in May 2003. They processed what they saw artistically. Willi Weiner transferred his impressions of the Danube in mixed media onto large-format Japanese paper with a blue glaze, David Willen captured them with a Sinar plate camera.
Details of the book
Ed. Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
Ulm 2005
120 pages, with photographs by David Willen and drawings by Willi Weiner
ISBN 3-88294-347-5
Price € 12.00
Ingo Glass
Arbeiten 1995 - 2001
Ed. Christian Glass
2001 / Price 10,00 €
Catalog for the exhibition from June 22 to September 9, 2001 with contributions by Christian Glass, Gerhard Leistner and Ingo Glass, biography and catalog raisonné
Details of the book
Ed. Christian Glass
Ulm 2001
64 pages, numerous illustrations
ISBN 3-00-007944-0
Price € 10.00
All publications are printed with the kind support of the State of Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
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