Madgermanes

Madgermanes be in Mozambique called some 15,000 Mozambicans, as contract workers because of a treaty between the GDR worked and Mozambique since 1979 in the GDR. After the reunification in the GDR in 1990, they were expelled by the Federal Republic to Mozambique . The expression Madgermanes is a corruption of the product label " Made in Germany " or means something like "the crazy Germans".

history

Part of their wages were to be paid in the GDR, another part in Mozambique; however, the latter never happened. The Madgermanes have been demonstrating regularly since then and, among other things, briefly occupied the German embassy in Mozambique in 2004 . They wanted to get the Federal Republic to take responsibility for the subsequent payment of the Madgermanes. In their home country they are seen as troublemakers and are therefore discriminated against at work despite their training in the GDR. In addition, the Madgermanes tried to storm the Mozambican parliament in 2010 . The labor minister then promised to pay 1800 people the outstanding wages.

literature

• Malte change: unity, work, vigilance. The GDR in Mozambique. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-298-6 .
• Theresia Ulbrich: “Madgermanes” - Moçambican contract workers in the GDR and their return to Mozambique . On the collective identity of the Madgermanes. Vienna May 2009 ( univie.ac.at [PDF; 3.4 MB ] Diploma thesis).
• Birgit Weyhe : Madgermanes. Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945034-42-2 (comic by a German author and illustrator who grew up in East Africa)

Web links

• Contract workers become Madgermanes : from: " Eigensinn im Bruderland ", a web documentation on migration to the GDR by Julia Oelkers and Isabel Enzenbach, accessed October 30, 2019
• Birgit Weyhe : "You came back almost empty-handed". Interview with Birgit Weyhe about her graphic novel “Madgermanes”. In: Germany Archive. Federal Agency for Civic Education , October 24, 2016, accessed on February 11, 2018 . 
• Madgermanes. A life in the GDR. Retrieved February 26, 2014 . 
• Madgermanes.com. Retrieved February 26, 2014 (photos by individuals). 
• Enslaved by debt. Mozambicans fight for East German wages. ntv.de, September 22, 2010, accessed February 26, 2014 . 
• Malte change: contract workers. Where the GDR lives on in Mozambique. In: Zeit Online . March 27, 2012, accessed on February 26, 2014 (photo gallery). 
• Nina Gruntkowski: Madgermanes in Maputo. Former GDR contract workers in Mozambique. Deutschlandfunk , November 12, 2005, accessed on February 26, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Myburgh: 'MadGerman' workers face uncertain future on. Workers say a labor program between East Germany and Mozambique was little more than a way to pay off the latter's debts. In: Taipei Times. September 26, 2010, accessed February 26, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Frank Räther, Thomas Wiegold : The fight of the "Ossis". In: Focus Magazin No. 30. July 19, 2004, accessed on February 26, 2014 . 
3. ^ Marina Mai: Contract workers from Mozambique: "Modern Slavery" in the GDR . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 3, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 24, 2019]).
4. ↑ Christoph Hantel: Journalist training in Mozambique . Frank & Timme, 2005, ISBN 3-86596-056-1 , pp. 388 ( Google Books ).
5. ↑ Lina Gronau, Thomas Kunze: The living room in the park. Former GDR contract workers in Mozambique . In: Thomas Kunze, Thomas Vogel (ed.): Ostalgie international . Memories of the GDR from Nicaragua to Vietnam. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-600-0 , p. 79 f . ( Google Books ).
6. ↑ Enslaved by debt. Mozambicans fight for East German wages. In: ntv.de. September 22, 2010, accessed February 26, 2014 .