Join us for the third textile art workshop of the series "Crafting a Life" that invites 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.
The Autumn-Workshop focuses on the adult years of Theodor Wonja Michael (1925-2019). 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 Dazu (2015), remains a vital testimony and is part of our Library for Black Ecologies.