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Book cover: Manja Präkels, Breathing Against the Wind (Merve, 2025), design: Studio Daniel Rother after Jochen Stankowski, Dresden
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Manja Präkels: Breathing Against the Wind

'haɪ̯maːtn̩ Vol. 2
A literary reportage 

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Manja Präkels: Breathing Against the Wind

'haɪ̯maːtn̩ Vol. 2
A literary reportage 

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Who Does Germany Belong To? Podcast
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Who does Germany belong to? Podcast Episode 1 

The Post-Migrant Decade
with Max Czollek and Naika Foroutan 

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Who does Germany belong to? Podcast Episode 1 

The Post-Migrant Decade
with Max Czollek and Naika Foroutan 

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César Olhagaray, Solidarität [Solidarity] (1986/2024), mural, mixed media on canvas, reproduction, 3,1 x 9,4 m © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy of the artist. Installation view of the exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.
Dito Tembe, Madgermanes (2023), series of 8 reproductions of original oil paintings on canvas (detail), courtesy of the artist. Installation view of the exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.
Exhibition view Echoes of the Brother Countries. What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.
Exhibition view Echoes of the Brother Countries. What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.
Exhibition view Echoes of the Brother Countries. What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.
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Echoes of the Brother Countries

Between 1949 and 1990, thousands of people migrated to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from countries such as Algeria, Angola, Chile, Cuba, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Syria, and Vietnam. Their stories remain largely untold. The exhibition and research project Echoes of the Brother Countries is dedicated to the often overlooked political, economic, educational, and artistic links, as well as the exchange and migration movements between the GDR and other socialist-orientated states, the so-called brother countries.

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Without Poetry, We Wouldn't Be Here!

In the chaos of current world events, poetry is often one of the last remaining anchors— a voice of consolation or simply a means of keeping focus. On the historic date of the expansion of the war in Ukraine, poets with different mother tongues read from their works—against despair, in solidarity, and for a togetherness that cannot be divided into national camps. They are united through their verse.

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Without Poetry, We Wouldn't Be Here!

In the chaos of current world events, poetry is often one of the last remaining anchors— a voice of consolation or simply a means of keeping focus. On the historic date of the expansion of the war in Ukraine, poets with different mother tongues read from their works—against despair, in solidarity, and for a togetherness that cannot be divided into national camps. They are united through their verse.

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Coping with the Present: Eastern Europe Panel with Katharina Warda, Yevgenia Belorusets, and Olga Shparaga, moderated by Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Max Czollek (Thumbnail)
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Coping with the Present: Eastern Europe

What role does the political situation in Eastern Europe play for the entire European region and what impact does it have on art and literature? Yevgenia Belorusets and Olga Shparaga, two key players in the Ukrainian and Belarusian cultural scene, discuss these questions together with the author Katharina Warda, who is investigating the history of minorities and right-wing violence in the GDR.

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Coping with the Present: Eastern Europe

What role does the political situation in Eastern Europe play for the entire European region and what impact does it have on art and literature? Yevgenia Belorusets and Olga Shparaga, two key players in the Ukrainian and Belarusian cultural scene, discuss these questions together with the author Katharina Warda, who is investigating the history of minorities and right-wing violence in the GDR.

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RAW ON—Ancestral technologies of resistance

RAW ON—Ancestral technologies of resistance, a collaboration with Luso-Angolan producer DJ Firmeza, was developed through Ana Pi’s exploration of vitality generated through the act of walking in Angolan Capoeira. The Ginga walk, named after the Angolan anti-colonial warrior queen, finds its intensity in the singular flow and percussive aspect of post-kuduro music. Guided by the sonic threads created by DJ Firmeza, Ana Pi’s choreography constitutes a new reading of traditional sacred and popular dances, where there is always a dialogue taking place between the basic steps and the drumming.

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RAW ON—Ancestral technologies of resistance

RAW ON—Ancestral technologies of resistance, a collaboration with Luso-Angolan producer DJ Firmeza, was developed through Ana Pi’s exploration of vitality generated through the act of walking in Angolan Capoeira. The Ginga walk, named after the Angolan anti-colonial warrior queen, finds its intensity in the singular flow and percussive aspect of post-kuduro music. Guided by the sonic threads created by DJ Firmeza, Ana Pi’s choreography constitutes a new reading of traditional sacred and popular dances, where there is always a dialogue taking place between the basic steps and the drumming.

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Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Naika Foroutan (Thumbnail)
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Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Naika Foroutan

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur—culture of remembrance—have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

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Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Naika Foroutan

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur—culture of remembrance—have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

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Cover Reader Musafiri
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Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests– Reader (en)

With contributions by Musquiqui Chihying, Cosmin Costinaș, Aïssa Dione, Aboubakar Fofana, Di Liu, Magnus Marsden, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Helene Pereira, Magda Radu, Yudi Rafael, Marian Pastor Roces, Citra Sasmita, Mustafa Hussain Shabbir, and Can Sungu & Malve Lippmann

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Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests– Reader (en)

With contributions by Musquiqui Chihying, Cosmin Costinaș, Aïssa Dione, Aboubakar Fofana, Di Liu, Magnus Marsden, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Helene Pereira, Magda Radu, Yudi Rafael, Marian Pastor Roces, Citra Sasmita, Mustafa Hussain Shabbir, and Can Sungu & Malve Lippmann

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Cover Reader Destination: Tashkent
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Destination: Tashkent – Reader (en)

With contributions by Cana Bilir-Meier, Souleymane Cissé, Pascale Fakhry, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Sophie Genske, Timur Karpov, Ali Khamraev, Valeriya Kim, Carlos Kong, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Maren Niemeyer Jacqueline Nsiah, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Marie Helene Pereira, Elena Razlogova, Aykan Safoğlu, Masha Salazkina, Alex Moussa Sawadogo, Can Sungu, Echo Xuedan Tang, and Sarnt Utamachote.

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Destination: Tashkent – Reader (en)

With contributions by Cana Bilir-Meier, Souleymane Cissé, Pascale Fakhry, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Sophie Genske, Timur Karpov, Ali Khamraev, Valeriya Kim, Carlos Kong, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Maren Niemeyer Jacqueline Nsiah, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Marie Helene Pereira, Elena Razlogova, Aykan Safoğlu, Masha Salazkina, Alex Moussa Sawadogo, Can Sungu, Echo Xuedan Tang, and Sarnt Utamachote.

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Always, Already There Booklet

With contributions by Leila Adu-Gilmore, Jessie Cox, Douglas R. Ewart, Hannah Kendall, Harald Kisiedu, George E. Lewis, Monthati Masebe, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, and others

Always, Already There Booklet

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The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2024

The Internationaler Literaturpreis 2024 Reader gathers extracts from the six works shortlisted for the award, which honours an outstanding work of contemporary international literature that has been translated into German for the first time.

The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2024

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Declaration of Independence

For Bwa Kayiman, Asante develops and enacts the work with the contribution and collaboration of local womxn of colour, with whom they interlink a plurality of personal narratives and manifestos related to the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Together they form a chorus response to Ama Ata Aidoo’s 1992 poem ‘As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence’. The voices come together in a live performance, centring the role of womxn of colour in world history as a collective act of learning and healing.

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Declaration of Independence

For Bwa Kayiman, Asante develops and enacts the work with the contribution and collaboration of local womxn of colour, with whom they interlink a plurality of personal narratives and manifestos related to the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Together they form a chorus response to Ama Ata Aidoo’s 1992 poem ‘As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence’. The voices come together in a live performance, centring the role of womxn of colour in world history as a collective act of learning and healing.

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FLTR: Cornelius Christiaan Frederick (Senior Councillor NTLA), Gaob Dawid Hanse (NTLA), Sima Luipert (NTLA), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.12.2023
FLTR: Cornelius Christiaan Frederick (Senior Councillor NTLA), Gaob Dawid Hanse (NTLA), Sima Luipert (NTLA), Christine Kramp (NTLA volunteer in Germany), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.12.2023
Prof Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.12.2023
Sima Luipert (NTLA), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.12.2023
Eyal Weizman (founder and director of Forensic Architecture), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 3.12.2023
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Inherited Testimonies

Inherited Testimonies is a live performance of culturally inherited, collective testimonies, delivered by traditional leaders and oral historians within a continuously transformed visual and auditory immersive environment—a large projection of evolving architectural and environmental scenes—conceived by Forensic Architecture/Forensis. This project, led by the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) and the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA), seeks to uncover traces of the genocide buried within the Namibian environment but present in the hearts of its affected communities, within the transformed physical environment, climate, vegetation, and the oral tradition of its peoples. 

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Max Czollek in Conversation with Peggy Piesche

Max Czollek in Conversation with Peggy Piesche

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