Crafting a Life
Crafting a Life: A Participatory Art Project on the Life and Legacy of Theodor Wonja Michael
by Cheryl McIntosh and the Theodor Wonja Michael Library
Join us for a series of four participatory art workshops that invite you to engage, reflect, and create together. Inspired by the life of Theodor Wonja Michael (1925-2019)—a key figure in Afro-German history—this project weaves storytelling and textile art into a shared, collective experience.
Born during the Weimar Republic as the son of a Cameroonian father and an East Prussian mother, Michael’s life journey traversed some of the most violent and oppressive periods of German history. From being forced to perform in so-called human zoos and appearing in Nazi propaganda films, to becoming a powerful voice after World War II as a journalist and author advocating for Black people in Germany—his story is one of resilience, resistance, and transformation. His autobiography, Deutsch Sein und Schwarz Sein (2015) ...
by Cheryl McIntosh and the Theodor Wonja Michael Library
Join us for a series of four participatory art workshops that invite you to engage, reflect, and create together. Inspired by the life of Theodor Wonja Michael (1925-2019)—a key figure in Afro-German history—this project weaves storytelling and textile art into a shared, collective experience.
Born during the Weimar Republic as the son of a Cameroonian father and an East Prussian mother, Michael’s life journey traversed some of the most violent and oppressive periods of German history. From being forced to perform in so-called human zoos and appearing in Nazi propaganda films, to becoming a powerful voice after World War II as a journalist and author advocating for Black people in Germany—his story is one of resilience, resistance, and transformation. His autobiography, Deutsch Sein und Schwarz Sein (2015) ...
Registration period
Monday, 22.06.26
Time
Sunday, 21.06.26 - 03:00 PM
- 05:00 PM
Event format
Workshop
Topic
Anti-Rassismus, Kunst, Afro-Deutsches Leben, Kolonialismus, Art, Widerstand, NS-Zeit
Speaker
Cheryl McIntosh, Theodor Wonja Michael Bibliothek
Target groups
Children and young people
All interested
Students
Researchers
Languages
Englisch, Deutsch
Location
Poststr. 26, 53111 Bonn
Room
Ausstellungsfläche, 1. OG
Admission price
Admission: €4.50 (normal) / €2.50 (reduced) / Free (Students of the University of Bonn)
Reservation
not required
Registration/Ticket
Additional Information
Organizer
by Cheryl McIntosh and the Theodor Wonja Michael Library hosted at the Global Heritage Lab
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