Unexpected Lessons Walk – Berlin-Mitte, Germany
City Tours
Dekoloniale in cooperation with TALKING OBJECTS LAB, 2021
Where did the Berlin Africa Conference take place? How did Deutsche Bank showcase its significant involvement in colonialism? Where was the world's largest collection of stolen ancestors located? How did colonial migrants from Cameroon and East Africa look back on 35 years of German colonial rule in 1919?
Our Unexpected Lessons Walk leads through Berlin's old and new government districts, where European and German colonialism received decisive impulses. Berlin-based activists and experts from Namibia, Tanzania, the USA, and Germany discuss the German colonial rulers' will to destroy, Berlin's racist traditions, unscrupulous collecting mania, and anti-colonial resistance in prominent but under-recognized locations.
Stationen
Academy of Arts / Venue of the conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS
Project Space Dekoloniale / Old Reich Chancellery
Federal Ministry of Health / Former Deutsche Bank building
Former Royal Museum of Ethnology
Primary School at the Brandenburger Tor / Former Reich Colonial Office