Documentaries

Web documentaries

DE-Zentralbild
Migrants in the GDR: De-Zentralbild expands the visual memory of the GDR with private photos and memories. Thirty individuals narrate their experiences and provide insight into their private archives.

Hoyerswerda-1991.de
This multimedia documentary adopts various perspectives to focus on the xenophobic attacks on migrants in Hoyerswerda that lasted over several days in 1991 and discusses the causes, unfolding and consequences of the attacks

Lichtenhagen im Gedächtnis (Remembering Lichtenhagen)
A website and archive on the 1992 racist arson attacks on Sunflower House in the Lichtenhagen district of Rostock

Sorge 87 (Worries of ’87)
A web documentary

 

Films:

Bruderland ist abgebrannt (Bruderland is Burned Down)
By Angelika Nguyen

This documentary was filmed in 1991, during a particularly unstable period where a certain pogrom-like atmosphere was prevalent in the GDR––including on the streets of Berlin. It serves as a snapshot of the situation of Vietnamese migrants who had been socialized in different ways in GDR society. A film about legal and social instability, and about the coming and going of migrants at Berlin Schönefeld Airport.

The Truth Lies in Rostock
A documentary about the arson attacks on the accommodation of Vietnamese contract workers in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992. The film was made thanks to the crucial involvement of the people who were under attack in the building, including Nguyen Do Thinh.