A panel about displacement, hope and self-realisation, which brings together people with different realities of life: they were either born in East Germany or have migrated, belong to different generations, live in a small or large city. But they all have these questions in common: What is worth staying for? What gives courage? What scares them? And when will it only be called Exit East Germany?
Guests: Nam Duy Nguyen (member of the state parliament in Saxony and child of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR), Cynthia Zimmermann (Cuban-German activist and co-author of the essay "Ossis of Colour", Vom Erzählen (p)ost-migrantischer Geschichten), Emiliano Chaimite (first generation of Mozambican contract workers in the GDR and co-managing director/project coordinator of Afropa e.V.), Alexander Saavedra (fled to the GDR from Venezuela and lives in Chemnitz), Vanessa Beyer (co-initiator of the Initiative (K)Einheit and Chemnitz resident by choice).
This event has been organised in cooperation between (K)Einheit, Jugendstil* and the Competence Network for Coexistence in the Migration Society as well as the Chemnitz City Library. It takes place in conjunction with the exhibition "Trotz allem! Postmigrant youth moves the East" by the Competence Network for Cohesion in the Migration Society, a project of DaMOst e.V., and Jugendstil*, a project of Bürger für Bürger Stiftung.
