52 stories: #16 Kaos and our new colleague
Since 2016 Hichem has been living in Berlin Oberschöneweide. Before that he lived in Berlin Spandau, but he likes it here better. I met Hichem in the Café Kranbar, which I went to on the recommendation of N. from our story #9 Kein Funkloch in Oberschöneweide. Hichem tells me that the bar opened in 2017, that the building was built and that it is one of his favourite places in Treptow-Köpenick. Not far away is the Kaisersteg and the Lebanese buffet "Risani" which, according to Hichem, is the...
“It wasn’t our choice to come here.”
“It wasn’t our choice to come here.” Those were some of the first words I heard as I arrived at Quittenweg refugee camp. A camp rich with many languages, cultures and religions and stories.Over the past few months I have been able to work with and among incredible people. Every day I get to learn more about a variety of countries, languages, cultural practices and the lives they had before coming to Germany and I realize that the title refugee is merely that. A title. By definition a...
