The German Emigration
Center (GEC) is a museum in Bremerhaven, Northern Germany, that covers the emigration of Germans to the United States during various eras as well as over 300 years of immigration
to Germany.
As part of the Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19, the GEC has developed a program that combines traditional
storytelling, face-to-face dialogue, and other proven “analog” forms with new digital methods for outreach, presentation, and dissemination.
GEC historians
will ask US citizens with German roots about their identity and history as German-Americans and the role that their German heritage plays in their life today. As part of what used to be known as “The Great German Triangle of the Midwest" it comes as no surprise that Cincinnati is one station of this project.
The filmed interviews will be added to the GEC’s oral history collection and will also be published
on a planned online family history portal in 2019.
In the presentation with Q&A, historian Katie Heidsiek of the German Emigration
Center will provide an overview over how the museum integrates oral history in its exhibitions, collections, and research projects.
Date: Wednesday,
December 12, 2018
Time: 7.30-8.30 p.m.
Admission is free.
The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19 (Deutschlandjahr USA) is funded
by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, and supported
by The Federation
of German Industries (BDI).
Posted by Bob Brodbeck
HCGS Acting DRD
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