Austellung "Angekommen? Migrationsgeschichten in Hamburg"

Vernissage on June 18 at 6:30 pm

Hamburg is a city of immigration. For centuries, people have been leaving their homeland for a variety of reasons and trying to build a new life here. Today, around forty percent of people in Hamburg have a history of migration. For the city, this means a great cultural enrichment, as well as an indispensable contribution to the functionality and prosperity of the Hanseatic city. At the same time, immigration has been and continues to be accompanied by conflict, discrimination, exclusion, exploitation and violence - including racially motivated murders.

For the "Arrived?" exhibition, ten history workshops have set out in search of migration stories from 1945 onwards in their district. This includes personal stories of residents, but also contributions about those who arrived in Hamburg as displaced persons or who lived here at least temporarily as "displaced persons" after the Second World War.

The individual history workshops are approached from very different angles - but they all have the same goal: to provide an impetus to approach the topic of "migration to Hamburg" in a broader context and open up spaces for discussion.