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Unterradischen/Dolní Radíkov: Deutsche und Tschechen im Dorf

Abstract

By means of the example of the multilingual, i.e. German-Czech, village Unterradischen in the Bohemian-Moravian-Austrian border region, this study aims to investigate the significance of the nation’s paradigm in the village environment in the first half of the twentieth century. First, the structural and normative patterns of village life together with the handling of ethnic pluralism are introduced. Then the question of changes of socio-economical and political structures and their influences on subjective and inter-subjective perceptions is discussed. Furthermore, the overlap of rural-agrarian culture and national substrates as well as the interference of traditional ethnicity and national secondary folklore are explored. The national component gained power of interpretation and mental influence only when the previous cultural and normative patterns of integration ceased to guide everyday life of the inhabitants.