New hiking exhibition on Namibia in the Pankow Museum

New hiking exhibition on Namibia in the Pankow Museum

From February 17 to May 19, 2024, the Pankow Museum presents the hiking exhibition "Solidarity station 'Jacob Morenga': Namibian patient: Inside in the Berlin-Buch Clinic". The exhibition illuminates the period from 1978 to 1991, in which over 800 people from almost 40 countries in East Berlin in the municipal clinic in Berlin-Buch were medically supplied at the so-called "solidarity station". The patients: Inside, socialist -oriented independence movements or organizations were close, were wounded fighters: inside or political activist: inside. In the GDR they received medical care and then usually returned to their home countries or to the theaters of war.

A particularly large number of patients: inside came from today's Namibia, which had been a German colony until the First World War. The hiking exhibition thus builds on German colonial history and highlights how this story was dealt with in the GDR and how anti -colonial battles in southern Africa and the state -organized international solidarity in the GDR were related.

The hiking exhibition is a contribution from the Pankow Museum in the overall Berlin project "Colonialism. Decentralized perspective on Berlin's city history" of the Working Group of the Berlin Regional Museums (ABR). A anthology with all research results of the museum on colonial traces in Pankow also appears this year.

The ceremonial opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Pankow Museum, in the presence of district mayor Dr. Cordelia Koch. The exhibition is accessible free of charge and open to anyone interested.

In addition to your location in the Pankow Museum, the exhibition will also be shown in other places in the district. After her stay in the Pankow Museum, she will be visited in the Buch district library at the end of May to mid -August 2024 and from late August to mid -November 2024 in the Pankow town hall.

District Mayor Dr. Cordelia Koch emphasizes the importance of the exhibition for the historical processing of German colonialism and its after history in Berlin. The topic is not only for the regional history of the district, but for the entire current debate.

The hiking exhibition offers a significant insight into the history of international solidarity in the GDR and the aftermath of German colonialism. It thus represents a valuable enrichment, both for the local history of Berlin and for the broader understanding of the global relationships.

Source: www.berlin.de