In her comic "Madgermanes", Birgit Weyhe devotes herself to an aspect of GDR history that has received little attention to date: the experiences of the 20,000 people from Mozambique who worked in the GDR from 1979 to 1991.
In her comic "Madgermanes", Birgit Weyhe devotes herself to an aspect of GDR history that has received little attention to date. She looks at the experiences of the 20,000 people from Mozambique who worked in the GDR from 1979 to 1991 by letting them speak for themselves. "Madgermanes" was awarded the 2015 Berthold Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Prize and the 2016 Max und Moritz Prize for the "Best German-language Comic". The author will read from her book in the evening.
Admission is free - registration at: sekretariat@akademie-schwerin.de, 0385 55 57 09 0
An event as part of the program Days of Exile Schwerin & Festival for Ostracized Music. An initiative of the Körber Foundation in cooperation with the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Theater and the State capital Schwerin.
