Neue Deutsche Medienmacher
Neue Deutsche Medienmacher e.V, Berlin Neue Deutsche Medienmacher is an independent network of journalists with and without a migration background. The network includes freelance and full-time journalists, photographers, videographers, and authors in print, online, TV, and radio from throughout Germany. It sees itself as an organization that supports those in the industry with a migration […]
Bildkorrektur: Bilder gegen Bürgerängste
Bildkorrektur: Bilder gegen Bürgerängste This collection of drawings was put together by a consortium of concerned artists who wanted to address what they saw as society’s worst fears regarding migrants. Published in 2016, the artists hope to replace fear with knowledge. The creative team includes: Aike Arndt, Tim Dinter, FÖRM, Hamed Eshrat, Serafine Frey, Matthias […]
Alphabet des Ankommens
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn This project by the Federal Office of Political Education in Bonn combines journalistic reporting with comics related to the them of migration. The site asks “What does it mean to leave everything behind and come to a new country?” Journalists and artists from ten different countries collaborate to provide different […]
Comics by Tuffix
Soufeina Hamed, Berlin Soufeina Hamed is a Tunisian born artist and psychologist who grew up and lives in Berlin. Her website offers dozens of comics covering topics such as everyday life, identity, politics, religion, travel, and more. Related to her website, this Deutsche Welle video can supplement or complement a discussion of her comic art […]
Weiter Schreiben. Jetzt: Ein Portal für Literatur aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten
wearedoingit e.V, Berlin The state-funded and award-winning project Weiter Schreiben, launched in 2017, provides a platform for artistic creativity and continuity for writers in refuge. On the project’s website texts by participating writers and related projects – including the Weiter Schreiben Magazin and (W)Ortwechelsn – are published (in visual and audio format). Visit the site
DOMid Virtual Migration Museum
DOMiD Virtual Migration Museum The DOMiD Virtual Migration Museum aims to tell the story of migration with the help of 3D virtualization. Visitors to the site can explore fictional urban landscapes set in three different time period. As they move through the city, they can enter different virtual buildings that each have their own themes. […]
Digital Archive Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum digital archive offers documents, interviews, pamphlets, photos, and architectural drawings from the Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg districts of Berlin. Its largest digitized collection focuses on social movements in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Visit the archive
Rubble Child’s World: Stories from Bremen’s Ruins
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC Four-part series of ordinary Germans’ recollections of the end of WWII in Bremen, collected by Kevin Ostoyich. Rubble Child’s World website
Goethezeitportal
Goethezeitportal e.V. Online collection of material from the late 18th century to Vormärz and related to life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, including art, documents, and timelines. Goethezeitportal website
Wolfenbüttel Digital Library
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel The Herzog August Bibliothek is an independent research institute specializing in the study of European cultural history in the medieval and early modern period. The library’s holdings from these periods form an archive of Western culture that is nearly unique in its scope. Manuscripts, incunabula, early imprints and special collections such […]
