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
