"Heard you on the radio was okay respect"

Those complimenting words were sent by someone special: Mohamed, security man at daHEIM in Spandau. For a few weeks he has had a little wooden box with an antenna on his desk at the end of the hallway - a radio with rather anachronistic look-and-feel. Even I was surprised to learn that Mohamed listens to the culture-oriented radio station of German national Deutschlandfunk service while at work.

We are very excited about the wide media coverage on our presentation of "daHEIM - glances into fugitive lives" at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen Berlin. There is an overview on our online press page.

However, we are not at all happy about the fact that the labeling "refugee" ("Flüchtling") shows up in almost every single write-up. KUNSTASYL came into life through German natives, as well as people who are homeless due to war, and people who left home because their very existence was under threat. Therefore, we could not agree more with the linguist Elisabeth Wehling, who does research on language use at the University of California at Berkeley and enthusiastically follow her appeal: "Eliminate the word refugee from your vocabulary. You do damage with it."