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

该项目的目的是从文化研究的角度研究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-其中多瑙河是为某些社会群体塑造的，并成为一种识别工具。他们将分析其内在的叙事逻辑和-在第二步-他们的跨媒体的相互关系和跨文化的翻译。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（蒂宾根）。该项目还涉及与多瑙河地区其他城市（布拉迪斯拉发、布达佩斯、诺维萨德、布加勒斯特和索菲亚）的著名研究机构合作，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，这些意义被用于各种身份概念。人们的假设是，多瑙河不是嵌入在一个，而是嵌入在各种区域，国家和跨国的叙述中，有些比其他人更熟悉，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方向，正在使用文化科学的先进研究方法和工具，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体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之间的区别。研究分两个阶段进行。第一个项目是专门收集和审查图书馆和照片和电影档案馆中的材料（照片、文字和电影），并对语料库进行分析和背景化，该项目的一部分专门针对伏伊伏丁那，以研究某些地理交叉点的叙事重叠。在第二阶段，将各个领域结合起来，建立跨媒体联系，并开展案例研究。

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.