The German minority and its cultural activities in Latvia: 20’s and 30’s of the 20th century

After many years of "national awakening" and a very painful "liberation war", latvia became in 1919-1920 an independent and non-occupied state, for the first time of its history. So began a very new political process of nation-state building. As ethnic Latvians had to face many difficulties, the german Baltic experienced also a radical change in their situation. Indeed, they lost many privileges they benefited under the Tsarist rule, and were mainly evicted of the economic power by the Land Reform Law, passed in September 1920. Nevertheless, they managed to remain the most organized and coherent national minority of latvia during the independence period. And so one interesting research topic could be to study the cultural activities of the Baltic Germans in latvia, because culture became one of the most relevant ways to express themselves and to affirm their new identity as a national minority in a nation-state.