The Black Forest in Victorian magazines

The magazine was a medium addressed to Queen Victoria's subjects to explain their own society and to expose them to the world. The Black Forest was one of the travel destinations that British tourists newly discovered in the latter half of the 19th century. Articles, reports and stories in British magazines reflect what they found charming and odd about the area. In a poster exhibit students from the Department of English at the University of Freiburg show to which facets of the Black Forest the readers in Great Britain between 1840 and 1901 were introduced. In addition, the external perspective is juxtaposed to the German one in the magazine Die Gartenlaube. Visitors will find a lot of similarities to the British viewpoint as the German audience at that time had yet to discover the Black Forest for itself.

• What: Exhibit
  
  
• When: July 28, 2017 until August 31, 2017, library opening hours
  
  
• Where:
  University library Freiburg
  Ground floor
  Platz der Universität 2
  79098 Freiburg
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  
• Host: Department of English, University library
  
  
• Contact information: Nadine Keßler, + 49 (0) 761/203-3943
  
  
• The event is free of admission.