Published: 22025-05-09 — Updated on 2025-05-10

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Spiš German identity in the year of the political upheavals of 1918 as reflected in the Karpathen-Post

Michaela Kováčová , Ulrika Strömplová
Germanistische Werkstatt
Section: Linguistics
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.5848

Abstract

The article deals with the re-construction of the ethnic identity of the German enclave in the last
months of 1918 in the Spiš region, on the periphery of the old Hungary and the new Czechoslovak Republic.
Based on the analysis of a text corpus on the researched topic from the local German-language weekly newspaper
Karpathen-Post and the analysis of the socio-political context, the identity change of the Spiš Germans
is traced and its politically induced ruptures are shown.

Keywords:

German minority, Spiš/Zips/Szepes, 1918, historical press, cultural identity

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Kováčová, M. ., & Strömplová, U. . (2025). Spiš German identity in the year of the political upheavals of 1918 as reflected in the Karpathen-Post. Germanistische Werkstatt, (13), 63–78. https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.5848 (Original work published May 9, 2025)
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