Black box deportation

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Blackbox deportation is a media installation with video - interviews and recordings of stories from Germany deported people. At the same time, a book of the same name was published with the subtitle Stories and Pictures of People Who Would Like to Stay (2013) by journalist and radio host Miltiades Oulios.

history

In addition to the wall memorial on the White Kreuzplatz explaining refugees on its English-language banner in the background: "We, the people from Sudan, are not criminals , but fled just before the war"
Belit Onay , member of the Lower Saxony state parliament , and other members of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen at the beginning of June 2014 on the Weissekreuzplatz in Hanover discussing offers of help for the refugees from Sudan who are camping there

In 2013 around 10,000 people were deported from the Federal Republic of Germany . The “continued life” of those affected, who were sometimes “torn from their everyday lives” after a long life in Germany, often remained hidden after their deportation. To make their fates visible to the public, an exhibition was created that can now be seen in twenty German cities. In the course of this exhibition, the book Blackbox Deportation was created in 2013 . In the following year, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation published its text Refugees welcome - Refugees welcome? Almost at the same time in May 2014 around 50 refugees from Sudan who are threatened with deportation occupied the Weißkreuzplatz in Hanover with tents , organized peaceful demonstrations and some went on hunger strike to protest against their intended deportation. For example, after Belit Onay , a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament , and other members of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen met for situation and aid discussions with the Sudanese on the Weissekreuzplatz, the opening of the exhibition Blackbox Deportation took place in the opposite cultural center pavilion Reading of the book of the same name and discussions with the Sudanese affected by deportation began.

The installation

For the media installation by Ralf Jesse and Mark Terkessidis , a black veiled “ black box ” was set up. A room with used furniture and a television opens up behind a black curtain : “It could be the living room of someone deported”. In an endless loop on the television, nine people who had already been deported documented in video interviews and digital camera recordings for tens of thousands of other people their deportation, their arrival in the “target country” and their “continued life” in the other country.

The book

In the course of the exhibition shown in numerous German cities, the author, reporter and radio host Miltiadis Oulios wrote down the stories that deported people told or recorded with their own cameras. Oulios also highlighted the reality of life in stations of deportations for example, in the case specifically established for these purposes prisons for the detention and questioned the meaning of the deportation. With the book, the author also developed a theory of deportation.

Media reports (selection)

  • Mathias Klein: Church offers living space for refugees / Offensive for a "welcoming culture" / Topic should be addressed in church services , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of December 6, 2013, p. 16
  • Vera König: Ex-Mayor helps war refugees / Herbert Schmalstieg collects donations instead of gifts , in: Neue Presse from January 22, 2014, p. 18
  • Tobias Morchner: Sudanese demonstrate in Langenhagen / Africans threatened with deportation go on hunger strike , in: HAZ of May 31, 2014, p. 16

literature

  • Miltiades Oulios: Black box deportation. Stories and pictures of people who would have liked to stay , original edition, 1st edition, Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2013, ISBN 978-3-518-12644-8 and ISBN 3-518-12644-X
  • Christian Jakob (text), Koray Yilmaz-Günay, Stefan Thimmel (editor), Lukas Fuchs (collaborator): Refugees welcome - Refugees welcome? Myths and facts about migration and refugee policy (= luxemburg arguments , vol. 8), ed. from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, 2014, ISSN  2193-5831
  • NN : media installation in the cultural center pavilion. Black box deportation. June 5 to July 2 , leaflet about the media installation and book presentation of the same name as well as the Lampedusa event , staged reading with Antonio Umberto Riccò and the music “specially composed for this project” by Francesco Impastatos

Web links

Commons : 2014 in Hanover, Actions against deportation in Sudan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f N.N .: media installation in the cultural center pavilion ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Number of deportations from Germany by federal state in 2013. In: Statista . Retrieved May 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ See literature
  4. ↑ Tobias Morchner: Sudanese demonstrate ... (see section media reports )
  5. ↑ a b c Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )