The Foreign Fellow Citizen
Labour migrants in photographs from Berlins municipal administration around 1970
Mitte Museum. Regionalgeschichtliches Museum für Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding
Unbekannter Fotograf: Säuglingsfürsorge im Bezirk Wedding, um 1970 (2)
o.J. © Mitte Museum / Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin
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This exhibition shows photos of labour immigrants to Berlin around the year 1970. Photographers of Landesbildstelle Berlin [the Berlin Federal State Photographic Archive], the local photographic archives and other West Berlin institutions were commissioned to take these pictures by the Berlin authorities. Although the works have been constantly accessible since they were created, they have hardly entered the collective memory. The Mitte Museum is now once more shining the spotlight on these photographs, which were for the most part created in serial sequences. These pictures of foreign fellow citizens as they were called in the official parlance of the day are being presented here as testimony to photographic history, while at the same time representing important pictorial records of the history of immigration in Germany.
Theme
Urban Lifestyles
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Artist(s)
Ingeborg Lommatzsch, Wolfgang Niklaus, Bert Sass, Karl-Heinz Schubert, Horst Siegmann, Eva Szardenings u.a.
Curator(s)
Sigrid Schulze, Jürgen Haunss unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Pozek
Duration of the exhibition
28.11.2010 - 30.06.2011
Vernissage
25.11.2010, 17 h
Opening times
So-Mi 10-17 h, Do 10-20 h
Location
Mitte Museum. Regionalgeschichtliches Museum für Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding
Pankstraße 47
13357 Berlin
T 0049 30 46060190
Public transport connections
U8 Pankstraße
S1, 2, 25, 41, 42 Gesundbrunnen
Bus M27
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