An installation consisting of three ceramic benches is being created for this purpose. The work ”between the paths” pursues the approach of making gaps in common historical narratives visible. The installation will be accompanied by a musical tour of the city and an interactive reading:
ÜberLebenswege – Schwarze deutsche Geschichte(n) der Nachkriegszeit.
An interactive reading with contemporary testimonies
Between 1945 and 1955, around 68,000 children were born in West Germany whose mothers were German and whose fathers were Allied soldiers – around 5,000 of them had a Black father. The
post-war generation of Black Germans is the subject of historian Azziza B. Malanda dedicates her book ÜberLebenswege. It focuses on the biographies of those who grew up in West German children’s homes and whose lives were shaped by various forms of exclusion and racism, but also by resilience and resistance. The interactive reading with contemporary testimonies invites people to remember, tell and visualize the traces of Black German history from the post-war period to the present day.
How can an artistic examination of the post-war period with regard to colonial and racist continuities succeed without reproducing stereotypes?
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Azziza B. Malanda (Cologne) has a PhD in history and specializes in Black German history, colonialism, participatory museum work and public history.
Janis Strobl, born in 1995, Rebekka Feicht, born in 1996, and Nils Peisker, born in 1995, live and work in Munich and founded may kollektiv in 2024.