Reading the Danube. (Trans)national narratives in the 20th and 21st centuries

该项目的目标是从文化研究的角度研究20世纪和21世纪关于多瑙河的身份形成叙事。调查的重点是图像和文本媒体-文学文本，照片和电影-其中多瑙河为某些社会群体所塑造，并成为身份的载体。第二步，分析它们的内在叙事逻辑，分析它们的跨媒介相互关系和跨文化翻译。两个研究机构正在就该项目进行合作：奥地利科学院/文化科学和戏剧史研究所（维也纳）和多瑙河-斯瓦比亚历史和区域研究所（塔<s:1>宾根）。该项目还涉及与位于多瑙河地区其他城市（布拉迪斯拉发、布达佩斯、诺维萨德、布加勒斯特和索非亚）的著名研究机构的合作。研究项目的重点不是河流景观本身，而是景观、叙事和身份相互关联的方式，叙事赋予河流意义，而这些意义被用于不同的身份概念。他们的假设是，多瑙河不是单一的，而是多种地区、国家和跨国的叙述，有些比其他的更熟悉，这些叙述是交织在一起的，有时可以被视为其他河流叙述的翻译或更新。在该项目中，由于其明确的跨国和跨学科的方向，正在使用先进的文化科学研究方法和工具，如文化叙事学和文化科学空间理论。这些理论一方面促进了对叙事的跨媒介理解和对其文化功能的研究，另一方面促进了空间的物理和社会方面的区分。这项研究分为两个阶段。第一个是专门收集和检查图书馆和照片和电影档案中的特定媒体材料（摄影、文本和电影），并对语料库进行分析和背景化，项目的一部分专门用于伏伊伏丁那，以便研究某些地理交叉点的叙述重叠。在第二阶段，将各个领域结合起来，建立跨媒体联系，开展个案研究。

The objective of the project is to research identity-forming narratives about the Danube in the 20th and 21st century from the point of view of cultural studies. The investigation focuses on image and text media – literary texts, photographs and films – in which the Danube is shaped for certain social communities and becomes a vehicle of identification. They are to be analysed for both their inherent narrative logic and – in a second step – their cross-media interrelationships and transcultural translations. Two research institutions are collaborating on the project: the Austrian Academy of Sciences/Institute of Cultural Sciences and Theatre History (Vienna) and the Institute of Danube-Swabian History and Regional Studies (Tübingen). The project also involves cooperation with noted research institutions located in other cities in the Danube region (Bratislava, Budapest, Novi Sad, Bucharest and Sofia).The focus of the research project is not the river landscape itself but the ways in which landscape, narrative and identity interrelate, narratives assign meanings to the river, and those meanings are exploited for diverse conceptions of identity. The assumption is that the Danube is embedded not in one, but in a variety of regional, national and transnational narratives, some more familiar than others, and that these narratives are interwoven and can sometimes be seen as translations or updates of other river narratives. In the project, with its explicitly transnational and interdisciplinary orientation, advanced research methods and tools of cultural science are being used such as those of cultural narratology and cultural-scientific spatial theory. These theories facilitate a cross-media understanding of narratives and research of their cultural function on the one hand and the distinction between the physical and social aspects of space on the other. The research is organised in two phases. The first is devoted to the media-specific collection and examination of material (photography, text and film) in libraries and photo and film archives and to analysis and contextualisation of the corpus, with a part of the project devoted to Vojvodina in order to study narrative overlaps at certain geographical points of intersection. In the second phase, the various areas are combined, cross-media connections established and case studies developed.