HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL RELATIONS BETWEEN GERMANY AND SERBIA

Jovašević Ana (Institut fur Kultur und Medien management, Freie Universitat, Berlin), ana.jovasevic@gmail.com

The subject of this paper is the presentation and analysis of the historical development of the German foreign cultural policy as well as its cultural organisation that carries out that policy towards Serbia. The author does it by analysing the characteristics of its cultural policy towards various states (and Serbia) and especially the places, roles and significance that some institutions as the main agents of the German culture play in achieving the goals of this policy in building, promotion and improvement of mutual cultural relations and cooperation between Serbia and Germany. The paper will also discuss the notion of foreign cultural policy and its general characteristics of the German foreign cultural policy, history and the main features and objectives of that policy towards Serbia.

Keywords: Germany, foreign cultural policy, Serbia, international cooperation, organisations