Artists from Abroad in Berlin: A Journalistic Exploration (WiSe 2022/23)

“Artists from Abroad in Berlin: A Journalistic Exploration” is a hands-on course that
invites students to discover and engage with artists who have come to Berlin from
abroad. Berlin’s thriving and dynamic arts scene has long drawn theater-makers,
writers, actors, poets, musicians and visual artists from all over the world. In this
course, we want to critically examine the experience of displacement and dislocation,
the challenges of mobility and the demands of integration, but also the positive aspects
of finding oneself in a new place and making it one‘s own, establishing a life and finding
a community here. In addition to this theory-driven component, students will also learn
and apply basic journalistic skills as part of a hands-on exploration of the worlds
created by these artists from abroad, in Berlin. Finally, students will have a chance to
meet and speak with artist guest speakers from a range of fields, in addition to doing a
deep dive on the life and work of one artist from abroad, who they will profile for their
final project.