UNAUTHORIZED & UNVERSCHÄMT

In the organizer's words:

The installation Unauthorized & Unashamed looks at German history from a Black perspective: as part of Black Her*His*Story Month, we take a look at the post-war period and then move forward together to the beginnings of the more recent Black movement. To do this, we will examine the biographies of those who were born to Black US soldiers and white German mothers in the post-war years.
We interviewed a generation and met wonderful people who talk about their upbringing, their struggles and the realities of Afro-German life. Their stories are accompanied and shaped by exclusion and official racism in the Federal Republic of Germany. But they are also, and above all, stories of resistance and community building.
Simone Dede Ayivi & accomplices go into the archives for Unauthorized & Unverschämt*innen and shed light on the racism and sexism of the FRG - which is also responsible for families being separated and children being taken away from their mothers, adopted to the USA or placed in institutions. In Mannheim, Frankfurt and Berlin, they are researching how society dealt with the so-called "occupation children" and looking for traces that were left behind in official files. Because in order to understand current debates about identity and racism within and outside black communities in Germany, we also need to know this part of our history.


"I will still be
African
be
even if you
like me to be
German
German
and will still
be German
even if you
my blackness
does not suit you
I will go one step further
to the very edge
where my sisters are - where my brothers stand
where
our
FREEDOM
begins"

From the poem Grenzenlos und Unverschämt - ein Ged icht gegen die deutsche Sch-Einheit by May Ayim

Price information:

10,00 € | reduced from 5,00 €