Thursday 6 March 2014, at 19.15 hours, the local Catalan Luxembourg Centre (88, Rue de la Semois; L-2533 Luxemburg), to give the inaugural lecture (in Catalan) of the exhibition "Treasures of the Cultural Heritage of Outer Catalonia" we will have the presence of Tilbert Stegmann, Professor Emeritus at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany), of us, together with Professor Horst G. Klein, has promoted the EuroCom project for mutual understanding between the languages of Europe. Stegmann is Founder of the Catalan Library of the University of Frankfurt am Main. 1985, which with more than 35.000 volumes in the Catalan language is one of the treasures of the cultural heritage of Outer Catalonia.
He also founded, he 1983, la German-Catalan Society (Association germanocatalana) i la Journal of Catalan Studies / Journal of Catalan Studies on 1988. He received the award Isidro Bonsoms 1972, Creu de Sant Jordi 1985, He kept the Ciemen 1990, Premi Memorial Cendrós the 1991, Prize Batista and Roca 2005, Prize Ramon Llull 2007 Pompeu Fabra and the Prize for the projection and promotion of the Catalan language 2008.
With this conference, an exhibition will be opened that will allow you to discover the cultural heritage of Outer Catalonia. Outer Catalonia is, others, the set of people and entities that develop their activity outside Catalonia. Over the years, the Catalans abroad have been building buildings to be the headquarters of Catalan centers or houses, have erected monuments to Catalan personalities, have created entities, foundations, corals, wild, etc. The Catalan cultural heritage abroad, both the material and the immaterial, it is significant enough but quite unknown. For these reasons, the International Federation of Catalan Entities (FIEC) developed the campaign "The cultural treasures of Outer Catalonia" and these treasures were chosen by popular vote in the summer of 2012. The exhibition was presented, for the first time, at the discretion of the IEC (Institute of Catalan Studies) in Barcelona last November 2013.
The exhibition will remain open at our premises on 6 to the 24 March 2014.