Madgermanes - Couverture souple

Weyhe, Birgit

 
9783863913069: Madgermanes
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 386391306X ISBN 13 : 9783863913069
Editeur : V & Q Books, 2021

Synopsis

‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waiting for most of their wages to be paid. Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home, caught between two cultures and two states that no longer exist. Based on extensive interviews, she creates three fictitious narrators and transforms their stories into a visual language that skilfully interweaves African and European narrative traditions. Winner of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation Comic Book Prize and the Max and Moritz Prize for Best German Comic ‘The book is a great document and a monument to the injustice that befell me and other contract workers in East Germany.’ Emiliano Chaimite, Dresden ‘Birgit Weyhe traces emotions and situations, translating them into overwhelming images by entering into an artistic dialogue between European and African culture.’ Max and Moritz Prize

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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À propos de l'auteur

Birgit Weyhe was born in Munich in 1969. She spent her childhood in Uganda and Kenya and studied literature and history in Konstanz and Hamburg. Going on to study illustration, she has since worked as an illustrator and comic artist in Hamburg. Her graphic novels have been nominated for awards in Germany, France and Japan.

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Éditeur
V & Q Books
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
386391306X
ISBN 13 
9783863913069
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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vertrieb@voland-quist.de

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