Panel: "Who we are" - Migration in the field of tension of German museums

Dr. Bora Akşen is deputy spokesman of the Migration Working Group of the German Museums Association. At the Focke Museum - Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History, he works as a curator for media and is in charge of the city lab and outreach projects there. His research and work focuses on migration history and media.

Dr. Angela Jannelli is curator for participatory museum work at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt. She coordinated the redesign of the permanent exhibitions "Frankfurt Now!" and "Typically Frankfurt," which opened in 2017. Since 2010, she has been part of the Stadtlabor, a participatory exhibition format that she helped to develop both conceptually and methodologically. Since 2012, she has been the curator in charge of the Library of Generations, an artistic memory project. Her research interests and work focus on the culture of memory in diverse society as well as theoretical museology.

Cem Kaya is a filmmaker from Berlin. His latest work, Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, D-Mark and Death), is a documentary essay that tells the story of the independent and largely unknown musical culture of Turkish guest workers in Germany. The film was screened as a world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2022 in the Panorama section, where it won the Audience Award.

Sandra Vacca is a historian and museologist. Since 2013, she has been a research assistant at the Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD), where she has been involved in various projects, such as the Virtual Migration Museum or the mediation project "Meinwanderungsland". Currently, she is leading the project "DOMiDLabs: Labs for Participatory Museum Design" funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in preparation for the "Haus der Einwanderungsgesellschaft" planned by DOMiD.