Mau Mau settlement
Mau-Mau-Siedlung were called social slum settlements in parts of the Federal Republic of Germany from the early 1950s to the 1970s , which were built on the edge of war-torn German cities, often from rubble stones, or as barracks .
The term Mau-Mau-Siedlungen was used securely in the Rhineland , the Ruhr area , Bergisches Land , Braunschweig , Hamburg , Ingolstadt , Munich and Berlin . These were largely inhabited by refugees and displaced persons as well as bombed out people who came from the working class .
From the 1950s onwards, the inhabitants of these settlements were pejoratively referred to as Mau-Maus , referring to the Mau-Mau War in Kenya in 1952 . One believed to recognize behavior similarities like the destructiveness of the insurgents.
When the settlements were redeveloped in the late 1970s, the name almost completely disappeared. The term Mau Mau settlement still appears occasionally in press reports, but the actual connection to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya has been forgotten.
Movies
- And everyone says Mau Mau settlement . Documentary by Monika Schlecht and Hans-Joachim Theuerkauf , first broadcast in January 1971 in the third TV programs of ARD . It shows the portrait of two children in Berlin-Lichterfelde-Ost.
literature
- Charlotte Oesterreich: The situation in the refugee camps for GDR immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s. “Those from the Mau Mau settlement” (= series of publications studies on contemporary history , vol. 68). Publishing house Dr. Kovač , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-3498-8 (also dissertation , FU Berlin 2007).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kölner Stadtanzeiger from September 18, 2010: A secret society in Kenya was the godfather
- ^ WAZ of February 22, 2009: Mau-Mau instead of Helau: Carnival very different
- ^ Marie-Luise Oswald, Horst-Manfred Müller: German-speaking illiterate people: life history and learning interests of adult illiterates; Klett-Cotta, 1982, pp. 17, 50, 52