WORKSHOP: STUDENTS AT VOCATIONAL COLLEGES, PROFESSIONAL GROUPS, DURATION: 150 MINUTES

Lived History – Refugees and Expellees as Witnesses

© Gröteke

How do individuals cope with the loss of their homeland? How do they succeed in making a new start elsewhere? This workshop focuses on personal perspectives. We work with video interviews, museum exhibits and documents that highlight both individual and societal challenges in dealing with experiences of violence, the loss of home and integration. The focus is on the stories of German expellees after 1945, complemented by other perspectives from the former Yugoslavia and South Vietnam. Based on these multi-perspective testimonies, we discuss how people remember displacement and expulsion and what impact these experiences have, even decades later. Contemporary questions open up space for discussion within the group about the role that encounters with experiences of forced migration may have in professional life.

 

Workshop

  • Suitable for: students at vocational colleges, health and social care professions
  • Duration: 150 minutes
  • 120 Euros; free of charge for vocational colleges
  • Group size: up to 18 students per group; max. 3 groups.
  • Languages: German or English
  • Bookable: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 10:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (latest start), Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (latest start)
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