Cassette programs for foreign citizens

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Cassette Programs for Foreign Citizens eV was a non-profit association founded in Munich in 1978 with the aim of improving the "media supply for the foreign population in the Federal Republic". He sought to achieve this primarily by producing his own cassette programs (initially audio cassettes, later also video and CD) and placing them in local and city libraries.

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In particular, "reducing the education, entertainment and information deficit of foreign workers and their families" was the declared aim of the founding members, who for the most part came from library work. For this purpose, the association produced numerous literature and information cassettes that were made available in local libraries. Cassette programs for foreign citizens, however, were only available in Turkish and German due to financial reasons and staff shortages, despite further efforts by the association . The first publication was called Wir seh'n uns in der Stadtbücherei (1979), the last was published in 1999 with songs for Said's Saz . Well-known German and Turkish writers and artists such as B. Dieter Hildebrandt , Fakir Baykurt or Ottfried Fischer took part in the association's programs. These were aimed primarily at the first three generations of foreigners in Germany, but also at German listeners who were interested in the language and culture of migrants. According to the specialist author and librarian Corinna Carstensen, the aim of the program was to promote intercultural communication, break down prejudices and set “signs of understanding and dialogue in times of increasing xenophobia”. The didactic video film series Korkmazlar about a Turkish family in Munich, published in 1988 and shown a year later with German subtitles on regional television of the WDR , became a program that attracted attention beyond the target group .

Selected publications

Audio cassettes

Video

  • Erman Okay : Korkmazlar (4 cassettes with 2 episodes each, 1988)

CD

  • Said: The Salt of My Hands (1999)
  • Christian Ude : O'zapft is! Scenes and Satires (1996)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cassette programs for foreign fellow citizens eV: Jubilee publication Munich 1983, page 10
  2. ↑ a b Corinna Carstensen: Intercultural library work in a multicultural society, 224 ff. ( Memento from December 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )