Transylvanian Saxons - A Portrait.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) connects
Transylvanian Saxon Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and threats for
its appropriation, preservation and further development
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Dedicated to all future generations,
may the Transylvanian-Saxon cultural heritage remain alive in their hands.

Table of Content

Here is the preliminary table of contents:

  1. Preserving Tradition, Shaping the Future. Introduction to a New Cultural-Historical Portrait of the Transylvanian Saxons

I. Transylvanian Saxons – Origins and Growth of a Traditional Community

  1. Maintaining independence despite changing national affiliations.
    An overview of a nearly 900-year history
  2. Transylvanian Landlers
  3. Significance of the Andreanum and the Transylvanian Saxon University for the community building of the Transylvanian Saxons
  4. From the cradle to the grave – How customs and neighborhoods shaped community life
  5. Associations as Drivers of New Forms of Participation Since the 19th Century
  6. Faith and Community: Religion as Integration Force Among Transylvanian Saxons
  7. Cultural Foundations of the Transylvanian Saxons: Language and Education
  8. Resettlement of Transylvanian Saxons from Transylvania to Germany: Causes, motives and paths to integration
  9. Migration from Transylvania to the USA
  10. Migration from Transylvania to Canada
  11. Relocation from Transylvania and integration in Austria
  12. Deportation to the Soviet Union
  13. Life in communist Romania

II. The Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage of the Transylvanian Saxons

  1. Architecture and architects
  2. Fortified churches of the Transylvanian Saxons
  3. Economic achievements
  4. Science and Technology
  5. Transylvanian Art and Artists, then and now
  6. Transylvanian Saxon traditional costumes
  7. Transylvanian Saxon folk dances
  8. Music in Transylvania and Transylvanian-Saxon musicians
  9. Transylvanian-German theatre
  10. Transylvanian-German literature
  11. The dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons
  12. Poetry in the mother tongue (dialect poetry)
  13. Transylvanian Saxon identity
  14. Transylvanian-Saxon coats of arms and logos

III. Assessing the Current Situation and Future Perspectives

  1. The organizational structure of the Transylvanian-Saxon community today: associations, foundations, and neighborhoods
  2. Philosophy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).
    Theoretical limitations and possibilities, practical opportunities and threats
  3. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) connects Transylvanian Saxon cultural heritage. Opportunities and threats for the appropriation, preservation, and further development of Transylvanian Saxon cultural heritage in the age of GenAI
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