Bustour: Sung Tieu und Tamara Hentschel – DDR-Vertragsarbeit, Widerstand, Kontinuitäten: Eine Bustour durch Marzahn & Lichtenberg

In the organizer's words:

April 26, 25, 1 - 6 p.m.

In German, Vietnamese and English language

Tickets available online.

Participation fee: 10 EUR (regular) / 8 EUR (reduced)

As part of the exhibition Sung Tieu - 1992, 2025, KW is organizing a bus tour through Berlin-Marzahn and Lichtenberg together with the artist and Tamara Hentschel. The bus tour follows the traces of Vietnamese labor migration in the GDR and highlights in particular the upheavals of the reunification years, which continue to have an impact to this day. These include former hostels and workplaces as well as sites of right-wing violence and social tensions. The tour ends with a short stop at the Dong Xuan Center.

The tour, which lasts around five hours, takes participants to the individual sites by coach. The explanations are mainly in German, with informal translations into Vietnamese and English in small groups.

Start time:

Boarding point 1: 13:00

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

Boarding point 2: approx. 13:30

Lichtenberg S-Bahn station, cab rank Weitlingstraße, 10317 Berlin

Stops:

Stop 1:

Rhinstraße, 10315 Berlin

Location of former dormitories for contract workers and temporarily of Reistrommel e. V.

Stop 2:

Gehrenseestraße 1, 13053 Berlin

Tour through the ruins of the former dormitory for contract workers.

Stop 3:

"Wurzel" youth club, Dessauerstraße 1, 12689 Berlin

Barnim Gymnasium, Ahrensfelder Chaussee 41, 13057 Berlin

Short stop between the "Wurzel" youth club, which was a meeting place for the neo-Nazi scene in the early 1990s, and the Barnim Gymnasium, which today organizes exchange programmes with Vietnamese schools, among other things.

Stop 4:

Brodowiner Ring, 12679 Berlin

Location of the memorial sign for Nguyễn Văn Tú, who was fatally murdered here by a right-wing extremist on April 24, 1992.

Stop 5:

Havemannstraße, 12689 Berlin

Site of former dormitories for contract workers.

Stop 6:

Möllendorfstraße, 10367 Berlin

Former site of VEB Fortschritt Herrenbekleidung, the largest manufacturer of men's clothing in the GDR.

Stop 7:

Dong Xuan Center, Herzbergstraße 128-139, 10365 Berlin

Return:

Ascent option 1: approx. 17:30

Lichtenberg S-Bahn station, cab rank Weitlingstraße, 10317 Berlin

Ascent option 2: approx. 18:00

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

Tamara Hentschel grew up in the GDR in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and worked from 1987 to 1990 as a counselor in dormitories for Vietnamese contract workers. In April 1990, she founded the Counseling Center for Foreign Citizens. In 1993, she founded Reistrommel e. V. together with other German-Vietnamese activists. In 2003, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of her commitment to the integration of Vietnamese people in Germany and her dedication to international understanding and humanity.

Sung Tieu (* 1987 in Hai Duong, Vietnam) is an artist living in Berlin.

Price information:

Tickets available online. Participation fee: 10 EUR (regular) / 8 EUR (reduced)