Museum of Labor Hamburg, borderless

Dive into the grenzenlos bookazine that brings together a wide range of voices and perspectives from BIPoC in Germany. In the form of essays, interviews, poems, collages, and photographs, this publication conveys the multifaceted realities of life in this community. The authors continue the discourse of the exhibition and illuminate the topics in an independent and critical way.

The grenzenlos bookazine is especially aimed at BIPoC and at the same time creates productive learning spaces for all readers through its diversity-sensitive, discrimination-critical and inclusive approach. Contributions by authors such as Lahya Aukongo, Olenka Bordo Benavides, Natasha A. Kelly and many others offer a unique perspective on diverse life in Germany.

The bookazine also takes a critical look at colonial history. Hamburg, once an economic center of European colonialism, is illuminated in its connection to colonies and its darker sides. The exhibition at the Museum der Arbeit reveals the invisible connections between Hamburg industry and the colonies, between everyday products and the realities of life overseas. The people in the colonies were supporting pillars for Hamburg’s industrial processing of raw materials. But this happened under the shadow of a racist tyranny. They were enslaved, dispossessed and forced to work. The special exhibition at the Museum der Arbeit recalls this history and contributes to the discussion about colonial structures of domination and their long-term effects.