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title: "Tamara Hentschel | Wir – Gespräche zum demokratischen Alltag in Berlin"
date: 2023-01-10
last_modified: 2023-02-21T14:58:30+01:00
generated_at: 2026-06-08T22:17:54Z
url: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/video/tamara-hentschel-wir-gesprache-zum-demokratischen-alltag-in-berlin"
description: "Shortly after Tamara Hentschel, a trained textile worker, moved to Marzahn, Vietnamese contract workers arrived there in 1987. As a resident advisor, she experienced first-hand the social problems experienced by Vietnamese people, their precarious status after the fall of communism, and the hostility they encountered. She talks about her work at a counselling centre and how the Reistrommel e.V. association was founded."
image: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Unbenannt1.png"
language: "en-US"
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# Tamara Hentschel | Wir – Gespräche zum demokratischen Alltag in Berlin

Berliner Zimmer

[![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Unbenannt1-300x154.png)](https://youtu.be/lDmgtHxmWvk)

## Wir – Gespräche zum demokratischen Alltag in Berlin

Jennifer Kamau came to Berlin as a refugee. She talks about her life as a political activist, reflects on her family history between tribalism and the cosmopolitanism of the big city of Nairobi and tells the story of her involvement with the Oranienplatz movement in Berlin, criticising the ambiguity of official regulations and calling for a combination of democracy and solidarity-based action. As a co-founder of the International Women\* Space, she is committed to a process of social change that is directed against sexism, racism and all forms of exclusion.

## Learn more

- [ ![Kameramann Cavo Kernich und Interviewerin Sonya Schönberger sitzen im Park versetzt auf Stühlen](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sonya-schoenberger-300x234.jpg)

### Berliner Zimmer

In den Videos der Künstlerin erzählen Berliner:innen von ihrem Leben in der Großstadt, ihren Erinnerungen zu historischen Ereignissen, ihren Erfahrungen als politisch Aktive oder Kunstschaffende. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Stadtmuseum Berlin entsteht so seit 2018 Video für Video ein digitales Archiv der Gegenwart: das Berliner Zimmer.

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