#lusatia

[thinkingimages]

Traditional costume of Sorbs (also known as Wends, Lusatians, Lusatian Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs) - Western Slavic minority in the territory of Germany. They live predominantly in the historical region of Lusatia - in the modern states of Brandenburg and Saxony. They speak Sorbian languages (Wendish, Lusatian) - closely related to Polish and Czech, divided into two main groups: Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian.

[rjana-luzica]

Give us our land back // demonstration against the destruction of a sorbian village because of the coal mining, 1990, Klětno

[livesunique]

Muskau Castle, Upper Lusatia, Germany

[countriesgame]

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Info: Lusatia is not a country. The blog is open to non-country polls now. In this case, it refers to a region in Germany and Poland.

[diespulcher]

In ordentlicher Krabat-Manier habe ich heute morgen schweigend mein Osterwasser geholt - Auf das mir ein Jahr Glück und Schönheit winkt!

Like a true Krabat fan, I went and silently fetched the Easter Water - May it bring me beauty and luck in this year!

[itsagrimm]

local tales of german origin: murder, war, mean kings and evil ghost women who are punished for not believing in god. local tales of sorbian origin: come here my sweet child. there is this mini dragon in the house. feed it with cookies and you will have luck.

[furordinaricvs]

Handrij Zejler (1804-1872), author of anthem of Lusatian Serbs "Beautiful Lusatia".

"Lusatia, beautiful,

gracious, dutiful,

land of Serbian forebears' toil,

land of dreams, resplendent soil,

sacred are to me thy pastures.

May thy future be blooming joyously!

Oh, may from thy womb appear

people that the world holds dear,

worthy of eternal memory!"

[itsagrummel]

when she wears lace like a properly dressed lady of the lusatian region.

[ulmicola]

Unrealized proposal for an independent Lusatian/Sorbian state after World War II.

[rjana-luzica]

Sorbian dragon (Zmij/plon) way: You're a dragon and you don't know how to make friends? Just give them food, milk or money. There. You just made a friend. You are now allowed to move in and they are required to feed you good so you don't burn their house or leave them empty

The dragon doesn’t kidnap villagers because he’s going to eat them. He’s just got really bad social anxiety and doesn’t know any other ways of making friends.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Schloss Muskau - DEUTSCHLAND

[rjana-luzica]

Philipp Franck (1860-1944): Spreewälderinnen beim Spinnen (1907), oil on canvas.

[velthurvik]

Die Winterbrücke

In einem kleinen Schlosspark führt diese Winterbrücke über den Schlösspark-Teich.

[so-you-melted-22]

I love making silly little boards for my silly little OCs on Pinterest but it’s fucking impossible to find the right pictures to illustrate the structural decay that the east of this country is experiencing

[helenofblackthorns]

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[bernhard-schipper]

'Black God’ Digital Collage, 375 x 375 mm, 2023 Fine Art Pigment Print under Acrylic Glass, Black Aluminium Art Box

This is the second picture in the new 'Timeline Pictures' series: 'Black God'. The subject of the Black God has been part of my work since 2021. In autumn 2021, there was an attempt in Bautzen to rebuild a Bismarck monument on the highest mountain in Upper Lusatia, the Czorneboh. The Czorneboh is named after the black god of the Slavs (Upper Sorbian: Čorno Bóh).

The actual meaning in Sorbian mythology is scientifically disputed and was given a new meaning in the 19th century in the form of a re-romanticization, as pagan cult sites may have existed on the mountain.

The appearance of a god (idolatry) is always difficult. But I found it very charming to establish Lew Kerbel's Karl Marx Monument in Chemnitz as a counterpart to the new-right Bismarck cult. Especially since the Chemnitz monument itself can be considered a very impressive atheist idolatry. The Black God images that I created in 2021 are more likely to be understood as quotes and humorous comments.

Integrating Karl Marx as a figure into the Neue Sorbische Kunst canon is long overdue because, as a misunderstood superfigure of the international left, he fits perfectly into the ranks of tragic heroes such as Ernst Thälman, Herman Potočnik, Maria Grollmuss, Alfons Bauer, etc.

The present image in the layout of the timeline images is an attempt to integrate the Black God into the canon of early Neue Sorbische Kunst. Socialist agitation and propaganda liked to appear avant-garde - but in the GDR it is more petty bourgeois and small-minded party folklore with the absent context of modernity. In the spirit of over-identification inherent in NSK, I use these set pieces that can be recombined as desired.