Jan 19, 2021
On this episode of Radio GDR the East Germany Podcast, Steve
Minegar explores the lives of East Germans who, in the name of
international solidarity and cooperation with fellow socialist
countries, worked on behalf of the GDR in Mozambique in the
1980's.
He has the distinct pleasure of being joined by Dr. Katrin Bahr,
Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Centre College in
Danville, Kentucky.
Born in East Berlin, Katrin and her family spent time in Beira,
Mozambique in the early 1980s where her father was assigned to a
railroad company.
Over the last few years she has curated photo-exhibitions in the
USA, Mozambique, and Germany about everyday life experiences of
East Germans in Mozambique.
Katrin is the co-founder of the Third Generation Ost network in the
United States, which aims to open up new perspectives and
approaches on research topics focused on the German Democratic
Republic (GDR).
Her personal life story and the missing narratives of East Germans
in the discourse around the history of the GDR motivated her to
pursue a PhD in German Studies at University of Massachusetts
Amherst. Her research topics cover post-colonial Mozambique, East
German material, and visual culture, and East German memory
studies.