Nearly 16 million people in Germany have a so-called migration background. Whether they were born here or immigrated - most of them are time and again made to feel that they live in a society whose self-image excludes them. But what does it mean to be German today?
Past event
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
The journalists Alice Bota, Khuê Pham, and Özlem Topçu tell in their book "We, the new Germans" their stories of a life beyond distinct ethnicities. They talk about their multiple identities, their different backgrounds and come to the conclusion that they are - despite everything and because of it all the more - a part of this society.
Chaired by Yasemin Shooman, director, academy programs "Migration and Diversity"
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Event Series: New German Stories (14)
New German Stories
From 2014 to 2018, New German Stories illustrated Germany’s past and present as a multiethnic society through the lens of individual lives. The event series included readings, film screenings, and conversations.
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Phral mende – Who We Are
15 March 2018
Film and Discussion on Perspectives of Sinti and Roma in Germany -
Germanija. How I Became an Adult and a Jew in Germany
Reading and discussion on Dmitrij Belkin's narrative that also throws light on immigration today.
19 Oct 2017 -
With Karamba to the Bundestag
Reading and Discussion with Karamba Diaby (in German)
1 Jun 2017 -
Vater unser
Eine Sintifamilie erzählt
(Our Father. A Sinti Family Recounts)Discussion and reading with Anita Awosusi
23 Mar 2017 -
A Jew in Neukölln:
My Path to Coexistence of ReligionsThe theology student and journalist Ármin Langer presents his first book
19 Oct 2016 -
Children of the liberation
6 July 2016
Discussion and reading with Marion Kraft, Ika Hügel-Marshall and Judy Gummich: The perspectives of black Germans of the postwar generation -
ХАИМ – HEIM (Home)
15 March 2016
Discussion and film clips with Robert Schulzmann -
Doitscha
Eine jüdische Mutter packt aus (A Jewish mother reveals all)19 May 2015
Reading and discussion with Adriana Altaras -
Osama bin Laden is sleeping with fishes
10 March 2015
Reading and discussion with Ahmad Milad Karimi -
The “Koscher Light” Generation
9 September 2014
Reading and discussion with Alina Gromova -
Kıymet
8 July 2014
Film showing and discussion with Canan Turan -
Being German and Black as well
13 May 2014
Reading and discussion with Theodor Michael -
“InderKinder”
On Growing up and Living in Germany20 March 2014
Reading and discussion with Urmila Goel and Nisa Punnamparambil-Wolf -
We, the new Germans
Who we are, what we want15 January 2014
Reading and discussion with Alice Bota, Khuê Pham and Özlem Topçu
“New German Stories”
Three questions to Alice Bota, Khuê Pham, and Özlem Topçu
Interview
29 Jan 2014
Searching for the New Germans
Bernhard Jensen leads through the reading room of the Jewish Museum's Academy
Gloss
2014
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