Walking seminar 2 : Southern Carinthia
The team of the research programme Heritage on the Margins set off for a walking seminar on 8 and 9 September 2020. We visited Southern Carinthia, an Austrian borderland. The peculiarity and fatality of its geographical location was presented to us by Zdravko Haderlap, a well-known local and a versatile cultural worker. He is constantly developing a walking concept with the aim of overcoming different borders and achieving coexistence, cooperation and mutual respect between people.
In the area of Leppen/Lepena and the adjacent gorges there is hardly a homestead that was not aware of the Nazi violence because they had supported the anti-fascist resistance movement. Photo: Maja Topole, 2020. 
The Peršman Museum first drew attention to a Nazi crime of the deepest kind, which was committed here in 1945 against the family of this place. After 2012 the exhibition will also show the persecution by the Nazis in general, the Carinthian Slovenes resistance against them and the history of bilingualism in Carinthia. Photo: Maja Topole, 2020. 
Due to the result of the Carinthian plebiscite of 10 October 1920, the region Lifeling/Libeliče was divided into two border regions. The border between the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) and Austria was erased after almost a hundred years, when Slovenia joined the Schengen area (Dec. 12, 2007). Photo: Maja Topole, 2020.
