Curated by Dr. Robbie Aitken
Based on ground-breaking research, the Black Germany exhibition uses biographies and a range of images to narrate the development of the Black Diaspora in Germany from the onset of Germany colonialism in 1884 to the collapse of the Nazi regime and the end of World War Two in 1945. In doing so, it looks at the journeys and reasons that brought men and women from Africa to Germany pre-1914, the development of African-German families in the aftermath of World War One, the forms of employment and the politics of Black residents during the period between the two wars. It also explores the little-known fate of Black residents and their German-born children during the Nazi period. This exhibition is curated by Dr Robbie Aitken, Historian, Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and Specialist in the German colonial period in Africa. He is the co-author, with Eve Rosenhaft, of Black Germany: the Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884 – 1960”, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.
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