Теория и практика на германската външна културна политика (1906–1932)
The Theory and the Practice of the German Foreign Cultural Policy (1906–1932)

Summary/Abstract: The study contains the views of researchers, politicians and statesmen about the role and the significance of the constructive foreign policy in the cultural field and about the construction of the institution needed for its implementation. The school paper at Wilhemstrasse (est. 1906) was the first step on the road to a new policy in the sphere of culture, that for the future was to be carried and financed by the Reich. Until the end of the First World War it was more of a theoretical one (without excluding the place of the war propaganda, that is another topic). That was the case due to the unclear views about the nature of the foreign cultural policy, and due to the multitude of tendencies of varying role of the state participation. It was only during the Weimar Republic, when the real state policy began - in the concentration of the cultural policy directed towards the outside world in the hands of the government. That however did not exclude the possibilities for private or social initiative. The Cultural department (est. 1919–1920) was the commanding point of an organization that later became very powerful with branches all over the world. The founders of the first German Republic managed to turn the cultural propaganda into “cultural involvement”, which was a winning bid for the mutually beneficent co-operation with the foreign partners.

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