Already from the turn of the 19th century, the Lusatian Serbs, ‘the Slavonic island on the German sea‘, their past, presence and future have been generating great interest around the globe: in Germany (especially in Saxony), in the Czech Republic, in Poland and Russia, and in recent decades also among the community of Southern Slavs, in France, and even in the United States of America and Australia, which from the 19th century have become home to communities of emigrants from Lusatia…