Postcolonial traces in Bremen's Überseestadt – Germany
City Tours
Lilli Hasche and Janne Jensen, 2024 Editors: Katrin Amelang and Silke Betscher
In the former port areas of Überseestadt, the colonial past is visible in various places and continues to this day through injustices in global trade in goods. But Bremen's self-image as a traditional trading city has so far hardly been associated with the colonial foundation of its wealth - historical and ongoing conditions of exploitation often go unmentioned. The advantage that colonialism and the colonial infrastructure represented for Bremen's trade in colonial goods becomes clear in the following tour of Bremen's Überseestadt.
References
Hasche, Lilli / Jensen, Janne: The Colonial Making of Bremen's Port Area, in: Chatterjee, Sukla et. al (ed.): Postcolonial Oceans. Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, Heidelberg 2023, pp. 219-236.
Hofer, Ralf u.a. (Hrsg.): Bremen - Schlüssel zur Dritten Welt. Kritische Betrachtungen der Handelsbeziehungen einer Stadt, Bremen 1994.
Roder, Hartmut et al (Hrsg.): Bremen. Handelsstadt am Fluß, Bremen 1995.
Stationen
Colonial trade in goods: The Överseehaben Basin
Port and hydraulic engineering projects: European harbor basin
Glorification of a colonial trader
Colonial Cotton Trade: The Warehouse XI
The coffee trade: Timber and factory port
Continuing honors? Street names in Überseestadt and the industrial port
New neighbors