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50 years ago, in 1973, there were strikes in over 300 places in the Federal Republic of Germany. Migrant workers, who had come to West Germany in the course of the recruitment agreements since the 1950s, were significantly involved in these strikes. To commemorate these labor struggles, which marked a turning point in German migration history, we present a special page.

Podcast by Mesut Bayraktar
Presented by DOMiD

The symposium for educators will take place on 8 December 2023 at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. The topic is (forced) migration and flight.

An ARD film team from "Live nach Neun" visited our archive depot. We could talk about some objects from our collection.

Exhibition "Who we are. Reflections on an immigration country" at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.

We will discuss "Memory Culture in Immigration Germany" at the invitation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Archive of Social Democracy. Be there on 25.10.2022 - in presence or in livestream!

Music and migration are the focus of the new work show by ArtAsyl e.V., which takes place this weekend at the Atelierzentrum Ehrenfeld. We are very pleased that some objects from our collection will be on display at the exhibition.

The vernissage will take place on Thursday, 22.09.2022. Other great events will take place during the weekend.

This year, the Africa Film Festival Cologne will take place for the 19th time from September 15th to 25th. Within the framework of the festival, filmmakers create a space to make African perspectives, visions and voices heard.

In this context, the exhibition "10 Views on Migration" will be shown at the Alte Feuerwache Cologne, which will be opened with a roundtable discussion on September 13, 2022. DOMiD is a cooperation partner of the festival with this event.

You can find the whole program of the film festival here: https://www.afrikafilmfestivalkoeln.de/programm/aktuell

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August 22.2022 marks 30 years since the racist pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen. We preserve a stone in our collection, which comes from a floor slab in front of the 'Sonnenblumenhaus'.

The Minister of State for Culture and Media, Claudia Roth, visited DOMiD and expressed her support.

The interactive app "Places of Democracy in Cologne" tells the (hi)storys of significant places for the formation of democracy and freedom. The "House of the Immigration Society" is one of them. You can download the app here.

The article "The migrant living room. Living and furnishing in a foreign country" in the latest issue of migrazine is about migrant housing. Below you can read about the role DOMiD plays there.

Today is the "International Day of Archives". That's why we're showing you on Instagram how to find what you're looking for in the DOMiD archive. If you want to make an appointment for an archive search or to use the reference library, use the form below.

Our cooperation partner "Ver/Sammeln antirassistischer Kämpfe" is organising an assembly on the history of antiracist struggles in East, West and reunited Germany in Berlin from 19 - 21 May 2022.

In the podcast of our Friends of KIgA e.V., Manuel Gogos talks not only about his book on DOMiD, but also about how he got into storytelling, about his father's migration biography, and about the museumization of migration.

Together with the contemporary witness and activist İbrahim Arslan, DOMiD has conceived the participatory workshop project "Against Racism - Unknown Perspectives". With the participation of those directly affected, the topic of racism is made tangible and history(s) is conveyed in a way that is close to life and biographical.

The photo shows an excerpt from a workshop that took place on October 31 at the National Theater in Mannheim. The workshop was conducted together with İbrahim Arslan and Çetin Gültekin. Çetin Gültekin was able to bring in the perspective of those affected by the right-wing extremist attack in Hanau in 2020.

The Historisches Museum Frankfurt dedicates an exhibition to Theodor Wonja Michael, which you can visit now. It is entitled "Schwarz und Deutschsein - ein Widerspruch? Theodor Wonja Michael (1925-2019)". For the exhibition, DOMiD has loaned objects from the estate of Theodor Wonja Michael. Such as his travel typewriter, which Michael bought in the 1960s.

The book about DOMiD is published! Here you can find all the info.

Köln feiert das Jubiläum des 60. Jahrestages des deutsch-türkischen Anwerbeabkommens. Unter dem Motto "Wir riefen Arbeitskräfte, und es kamen Menschen“ (Max Frisch)/ ‘’Biz iş gücü çağırdık ve insanlar geldi’" veranstaltete die Stadt Köln gestern in Kooperation mit DOMiD einen zentralen Festakt im Kölner Gürzenich. Mit dabei war unsere Ausstellung „Viel erlebt, viel geschafft… viel zu tun! – Geschichten aus der Migrationsgesellschaft“.

29.10.2021, 11.30h: We facilitate the conversation between the generations. Young people in Bremerhaven ask contemporary witnesses in Cologne about their experiences of arriving, staying and their questions about identity. The witnesses or their parents came to Germany as "guest workers".

Istanbul, Stuttgart, Bonn, Cologne and Berlin take note: On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the German-Turkish recruitment agreement, a special concert series will be held in November: Deutschlandlieder with Nedim Hazar.

Musicians of Turkish origin have networked and conceived this intergenerational project. The concert series shows an almost unknown part of a now common Turkish-German musical history and represents a musical celebration of remembrance. Deutschlandlieder features 12 to 15 carefully curated works from different decades and genres, with the original authors performing as soloists. Having them all on stage together is an extraordinary historical-musical event.

On Oct. 28, the film "Gleis 11" will be shown at the Filmforum NRW at Museum Ludwig in the presence of director Çağdaş Yüksel. The film looks back at the first generation of so-called guest workers, providing insights into the stories of a generation that helped write German history.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with director Çağdaş Yüksel, DOMiD Managing Director Dr. Robert Fuchs and other special guests moderated by Ahmet Edis (Deputy Chairman of the Cologne Integration Council).

It has been 60 years since the recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey was adopted. But which moments characterize these 60 years? Against this background question, DOMiD has created a special page on the occasion of this anniversary: "60 Years of Almanya" - here the perspectives of migrants and their descendants are illuminated with the help of interviews and picture galleries.

In cooperation with DOMiD and bi'bak berlin, the film series "The Invitees" will take place at the Haus der Statistik from 30.09. to 08.10.21. It encourages a rethinking of the history of labor migration.

On 04.09.21 the video series "Generation(s) erzählen" starts. This is a project of the Collaborative Research Center 1171 of the FU Berlin, Affective Societies, together with VLab Berlin, a non-profit association of and for first and second generation German-Vietnamese*. DOMiD supports this.