Workshop: Kein Vergessen: Die Besetzung der TU Berlin durch Geflüchtete und die Gründung des "Antirassistischen Zentrums" 1991/1992

Description:

This year's Dekoloniale festival will take place on the premises of the
TU Berlin and also makes reference to the history of resistance and activism at this location. The five-month occupation of the TU Berlin by refugees and allies in 1991/92 is a historical, if often forgotten, milestone in the history of the asylum movement seekers and former contract workers from East Germany. With the occupation and the founding of an "Antiracist Center" at the TU, a space for protection and action space was created. On the one hand, this can be seen as a direct reaction to the failure of the German authorities to act after the racist attacks on asylum shelters in the 1990s, especially in Hoyerswerda in the summer of 1991, failed to take adequate measures to protect those affected. On the other hand, the protest was directed against the discriminatory German asylum policy as a whole, against forced distribution and compulsory residence.

The occupation of the TU Berlin is an exemplary point of departure for the of the workshop, in order to critically reflect on continuities of anti-racist self-organization, solidarity and places of remembrance. Following on from this, we will jointly examine the (im)possibilities and examples of the representation of these resistance stories in museums.

Language: German

For: people working in the field of activism or museums or at the intersection.

When?
September 16, 2023, 12:00 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where?
Berlin Open Lab, Berlin University of the Arts, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin.

Registration: Dekoloniale website: https://www.dekoloniale.de/de/...