Kültür in Berlin-Schöneberg (1986)
Abstract
This photograph by Kemal Kurt shows an elderly woman skeptically eyeing a poster that includes the word Kültür, which means culture in Turkish. The poster advertised an intercultural festival in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1986. The use of the term Kültür provides an ironic commentary on the German fixation on culture, or Kultur, as a defining aspect of Germanness, while at the same time inscribing itself within that very same concept.
Source
Source: Photograph: Kemal Kurt/DOMiD-Archiv, Cologne. Reprinted in Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes, eds., Germany in Transit. Nation and Migration, 1995–2005. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007, p. 286.
© Kemal Kurt/DOMiD-Archiv, Cologne
Further Reading
Rita Chin, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europa. A History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Fatima El-Tayeb, Undeutsch: die Konstruktion des Anderen in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 2016.