TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rudolf, Gerhild
T1  - Das Laternen- und Martinsfest an den deutschen Schulen in Rumänien : Aspekte interkultureller Hermeneutik
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - In our “House Europe” the exchange of ideas is going on intensively and the multi-cultural societies are in continuous transformation. An interesting example for cultural transfer in a multi-lingual and multi-confessional society is the reception of the St. Martin’s Day combined with the lantern procession organized by the German schools in Transylvania. The schools with German teaching language in Romania became a practice area for intercultural communication. Since 1997, first grade students at German schools in Romania learn from a new reading primer. One of the reading passages, “Our Lantern Festival”, initiated the spreading of a feast which had not been popular before neither with the German speaking minority of the Transylvanian Saxons, nor with the Romanian majority. The Lantern Festival is closely linked to the celebration of St. Martin, who is a European figure of high symbolic power. We can allege that the cultural diversity is an additional value for Europe. In the era of globalization, when migration processes and cultural hybridization are getting more intense, the intercultural communication has to adjust its inherited paradigm to the contemporary dynamics and heterogeneity of cultures.
KW  - symbol
KW  - tradition
KW  - Lantern Festival
KW  - St. Martin
KW  - German school in Romania
KW  - multicultural society
KW  - intercultural communication
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65594
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-655949
UR  - https://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/40.1.8.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 40
SP  - 134
EP  - 152
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -