Bremer BuchPremiere: Bettina Bexte – In allem ein Stück zu Hause

In the organizer's words:

The author reads from her newly published comic!

What connects Azad, who fled Syria at the age of 15, Halime, who grew up as a Turkish guest worker child in Bremen, Florence from Rwanda, who has lived in northern Germany for seven years, Miša, who came from Yugoslavia as a guest worker in the 1960s, and Dilar, who grew up in a Kurdish family in Leverkusen?

They are all at home in two cultures and talk about their lives. How and in what circumstances they grew up, what difficulties they had to deal with, what they were afraid of, what experiences shaped them, what they are proud of, what values they carry within them and how they became the people they are today.

The different and exciting life stories of people who have immigrated to Germany together make a strong plea for a multicultural society.

Moderator: Axel Stiehler
Guest: Halime Cengiz

Bettina Bexte grew up in Hamburg and came to Bremen to study illustration and animated film at the University of the Arts in 1985. She has been working as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator since 1992. Her work has appeared in the Weser-Kurier, Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, Eulenspiegel, Stern, Spiegel-online, Lappan and Carlsen and in the children's magazine Gecko, among others. For some years now, she has devoted herself to drawing graphic biographies.