What has happened?On February 9th, 1999 Eva Hahn sent an article entitled"Deutsche Bohemistik - von außen gesehen" to the editors of OSTEUROPA: Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens (ed. by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde). The issue 4/1999 containing this contribution to a discussion about the situation of Eastern European studies in Germany which has been taking place in OSTEUROPA for several months was published on April 2nd, 1999. On April 26th, 1999 Eva Hahn got a letter from Ferdinand Seibt announcing her dismissal because of the the above mentioned article in which Eva Hahn called for a change of perspectives and an methodical debate within the German Bohemistik (read: Collegium Carolinum, Munich). On June 1st, 1999 OSTEUROPA (6/1999) published a reply of Ferdinand Seibt which reads more like a personal answer from somebody in a huff than like a contribution to an academic debate. The text doesn't mention the dismissal of Eva Hahn at all, but presents her as follows: "Frau Hahn ist seit siebzehn Jahren Mitarbeiterin eines 'Forschungsinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der böhmischen Länder' in München mit dem Traditionsnamen Collegium Carolinum und seit mehr als zehn Jahren Redakteurin der Zeitschrift 'Bohemia'." The author of these words had fired Eva Hahn weeks before!
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Last update: February 21, 2000