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Call for Articles for the thematic issue 2.23: “Eating and Drinking”
SPIEGELUNGEN. Journal for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe
Eating and drinking are part of everyday human life. Beside satisfying physiological needs, eating and drinking can lead one to experience various emotions. Certain foods, spices, dishes and beverages are claimed locally, regionally or nationally as carriers of identity.” Especially in the context of forced or voluntary migrations, this food-related need for identity seems to become relevant, when even seemingly self-evident terms such as ”Brot (bread)”, ”Knödel (dumpling)” or “Schnitzel” experience a semantic fanning out due to their varieties, which can stir up conflicts. The IKGS invites you to present new aspects of this thematic complex in the form of scientific essays.
The planned thematic issue of Spiegelungen, which focuses on the Germans in and from Southeastern Europe in their cultural interrelations with their neighbors of different ethnicities and languages, opens up a variety of possible cultural, historical, and literary approaches to this broad field. Especially welcome are contributions that focus on trans- and international phenomena.
Contributions may center on the following (or similar) questions:
- What can be determined from historical sources about the eating and drinking habits of the earliest German settlers in Central and Southeastern Europe, for example, the medieval migrants to Siebenbürgen/Transylvania or the Zips/Spiš, or the Habsburg colonists in the 18th century?
- Which historical events and processes led to changes in the diet of the Germans in Southeastern Europe?
- What role did monasteries play (through recipe collections, table manners, cultivation of cereals and other crops, animal husbandry)?
- How did staple foods that were later taken for granted, such as corn and potatoes, find their way into the cuisine of the Germans in Southeastern Europe?
- Which cookbooks, for example from the time of the Habsburg monarchy, contributed to the standardization of certain regional dishes?
- In what ways did the “Lebensreform” movement around 1900 impact the cuisine of Germans in Southeastern Europe – for example, in hotels, in the gastronomy, or in the editing of cookbooks? What role did spas play in this context?
- What role did coffeehouses play in shaping individual self-image, literature, membership in certain groupings; were they equally accessible to men and women?
- What linguistic peculiarities/interferences do the designations of food and beverages reveal among Germans in or from Southeastern Europe? And vice versa: Which German designations are still used today in the languages of Central and Southeastern Europe for food items?
- What role do eating and drinking play in the stereotyping of “others”?
- What influence did Germans have on the food industry in Southeastern Europe (for example, beer brewing, wine and spirits production, gingerbread production, food processing industry)?
- To what extent did the food habits of German refugees, displaced persons, and resettlers from Southeastern Europe contribute to their integration, self-assertion, and distinction in the two German states during the Cold War?
- How did food and drink and the alterity associated with it find expression in the literary and cinematic representation of Germans in Southeastern Europe?
- How is the “native cuisine” of Germans from Southeastern Europe communicated today (through cookbooks, videos, exhibitions, Internet forums etc.)?
- What is the significance of “migrant restaurants” in Germany for Germans from Southeastern Europe?
Contributions should not exceed 30,000 characters (including spaces) and should be submitted by 30 June 2023. Please follow our Editorial Guidelines in the manuscript and include an abstract and a short bio (max. 100 words) with your text. Contributions can be submitted in German and English. All scientific articles published in Spiegelungen undergo a double-blind peer review process according to international standards.
If you are interested, please send an abstract of max. 350 words to the editors of the thematic issue: Doris Roth (rezensionen@ikgs.de), Angela Ilić (ilic@ikgs.de) and Tobias Weger (weger@ikgs.de) by 15 January 2023.
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