11 So Close, Yet So Far: Ulrich Makosch and the GDR’s Afrikabild on Screen and in Text

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. 1 Introduction: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War 1
4. I Shaping Pioneering Institutions
5. 2 Herder vs. Goethe in Egypt: East and West German Language Courses in Cairo and the Evolution of “German as a Foreign Language” (DaF) 61
6. 3 “In the Spirit of Harambee!” Kenyan Student Unions in the German Democratic Republic and Yugoslavia, 1964–68 87
7. 4 Agency and Its Limits: African Unionists as Africa’s “Vanguard” at the FDGB College in Bernau 115
8. 5 The Negotiations of the Contract Labor Accord between the GDR and Mozambique 139
9. II Navigating the GDR: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements
10. 6 The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Future: Ambivalent Encounters Between Zanzibar and East Germany in the Cold War 169
11. 7 My Impression of the German Democratic Republic [Life Itself Exposes Lies] 193
12. 8 Echoes of the Past: The Social Impact of the Returned Labor Migrants from East Germany on the City of Maputo 207
13. 9 Socialist Encounters at the School of Friendship 235
14. 10 Paths Are Made by Walking: Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR 247
15. III Sourcing Visions of Solidarity
16. 11 So Close, Yet So Far: Ulrich Makosch and the GDR’s Afrikabild on Screen and in Text 265
17. 12 Diaries of Solidarity in the Global Cold War: The East German Friendship Brigades and their Experience in ‘Modernizing’ Angola 293
18. 13 Between State Mission and Everyday Life: Private Photographs of East Germans in Mozambique in the 1980s 319
19. 14 A (Post)Socialist Memory Space? East German and Mozambican Memories of Cooperation in Education 351
20. List of Contributors 387
21. Index 393