Armmanschetten
- [heutige Bezeichnung] Benin [Republik]; [historische Bezeichnung] Dahomey [Königreich]; Fon [Ethnie]
- Wilhelm II. (Disposal); König Béhanzin (Commissioner); Werkstatt Hountondji (Object artist)
- 1890 - 1893
Half of Berlin’s residents come from somewhere else: from Hamburg, Leipzig, Göppingen or Guben, from Szczecin, Teheran, Istanbul or Hanoi, from Pristina, Cairo, New York or Douala, or from many other cities and villages around the world.
Some enjoy living their lives in different places. Others never wished to leave their homes. For many people in Berlin, connections to other parts of the world are simply what life is like.
Feeling tied to both Berlin and elsewhere can be enriching, but also painful. It can be romanticised, or also regretted, but it reflects the reality of a globalised world.