{"id":8048,"date":"2018-01-29T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/madgermanes\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:22:53","slug":"madgermanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/madgermanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Madgermanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “Madgermanes”<\/a> is used in Mozambique to refer to the approximately 15-20,000 people who worked as “contract workers” in the GDR between 1979 and 1991 – and were subsequently deported from the GDR, having been cheated out of most of their wages by Mozambique.<\/p>\n

In the comic strip<\/a> of the same name by Birgit Wehye<\/a>, stories are now told that were kept quiet for decades. Stories full of work, false promises, hope and the confrontation with everyday racism and neo-Nazi violence in the GDR. Wehye allows some of those affected to speak for themselves, fictionalizes at other points, and thus forms three representative biographies from the researched material.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the struggle of former contract workers for unpaid wages continues today – for more than twenty years, with public demonstrations and actions such as the brief occupation of the German embassy in Maputo in 2004. “Madgermanes” is a corruption of “Made in Germany” and “Mad Germans”. A designation that gives an idea of how difficult it is for those who have returned with their experiences, stories and demands, even today in Mozambican society.<\/p>\n

Brigit Wehye 2016: Madgermanes. Berlin: Avant-Verlag<\/p>\n

If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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