You are here: KULTURAUSTAUSCH Tag family Articles View of the house of the artist’s family Photo: Maryam Mumladze for Kulturaustausch Flying visit | Georgia A house in Georgia In the Georgian capital Tbilisi, there’s a house on a leafy street corner that is like a museum. A visit By Maryam Mumladze 11/30/2023 Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023 Happy times: Valeria and her father Valeriu Pocitari on holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, 2019 Photo: private Family | Republic Moldavia “We laugh together, we cry together” Valeriu Pocitari and Valeria Pocitari live over a thousand kilometres apart yet they chat almost daily. A father / daughter conversation between Moldova and Greece. Interview with Valeria Pocitari, Valeriu Pocitari 10/20/2023 Illustration: Hanneke Rozemuller Family life | Great Britain A quiet goodbye Since he can remember, there has been a deep rift between Daljit Nagra and his parents. He is ashamed of their narrow-mindedness; they despise his transformation into a “white man”. Memories of a difficult childhood By Daljit Nagra 10/16/2023 Photo: Emil Malmborg Family life | Sweden “Your children are who they are” In her graphic novels, illustrator Liv Strömquist explores the everyday absurdities of being a mother — and the funny side of parenthood Interview with Liv Strömquist 10/16/2023 Mouss Ould Kaci was born in France and is a father and activist. Photo: Alexia Fiasco Living together | France Love is thicker than blood A Paris flat, three daughters and at least as many chosen relatives: The family of 63-year-old widower Mouss Ould Kaci redefines family ties. A visit to France By Nadia Kara 10/16/2023 Judge Abby Abinanti is a member of the Yurok, an indigenous community in Northern California, and has worked for Californian state courts for many years Photo: private Indigenous justice | USA “These days, we have very few trials” Judge Abby Abinanti worked for decades in both U.S. state courts and the Yurok Tribal Court. She says many lessons can be learnt from her community’s close-knit approach to justice Interview with Abby Abinanti 09/20/2023 Ugandan author and activist Stella Nyanzi is currently living in exile in Germany Photo: Maximilian Gödecke Family | Uganda Dear Mummy and Daddy, rest in peace! Persecution, prison, exile: Life has moved fast for the Ugandan poet Stella Nyanzi since her parents died. So much has changed that she she’s catching up with the past. A farewell letter to Mummy and Daddy. By Stella Nyanzi 09/20/2023 Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi Photo: Chen Meng-Ping für Kulturaustausch Literature | Taiwan From Taipeh to Beijing, with love Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi and Chinese writer Yan Lianke exchanged letters for us. The result is a very personal exchange about censorship, loss, and the pain that is expressed between the lines By Yan Lianke, Wu Ming-Yi 06/01/2023 Chen Inzone, 38 years old, works as a farmer and lives in Jiali Photo: private Vox pop | Taiwan Military service and cats Students, a fish farmer, a beautician and an activist: we asked eight Taiwanese people what’s on their mind 06/01/2023 Photo: Iqra Shabaz Fiction | USA “Americans blame poverty on the poor” In his debut novel, Jakob Guanzon explores the reality of the “working poor” in the US. An interview about fathers and sons, money troubles and the dangerous legacy of the American Dream Interview with Jakob Guanzon 06/01/2023 Fiction | Rwanda Mother Courage How to write about genocide: Scholastique Mukasonga reflects on her mother’s story to chart Rwanda’s troubled history. By Ronya Othmann 07/01/2022 Photo Robin Utrecht / picture alliance Black and white thinking “Do you want a bodyguard?” Threatened from all sides, the young author Lale Gül is paying a high price for her self-determination By Lale Gül 04/14/2022 Fiction | Vietnam A hundred years of violence The Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells a family tale from her war-ravaged land By Sabine Scholl 10/01/2021 Photo: Magda Hueckel Literature | Poland “Our trauma has a million faces” The writer Joanna Bator is one of the most important voices of contemporary Polish literature. Her new novel is about angry women and women and deep psychological wounds. Is that coincidence or a statement? Interview with Joanna Bator 07/01/2021
View of the house of the artist’s family Photo: Maryam Mumladze for Kulturaustausch Flying visit | Georgia A house in Georgia In the Georgian capital Tbilisi, there’s a house on a leafy street corner that is like a museum. A visit By Maryam Mumladze 11/30/2023
Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023
Happy times: Valeria and her father Valeriu Pocitari on holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, 2019 Photo: private Family | Republic Moldavia “We laugh together, we cry together” Valeriu Pocitari and Valeria Pocitari live over a thousand kilometres apart yet they chat almost daily. A father / daughter conversation between Moldova and Greece. Interview with Valeria Pocitari, Valeriu Pocitari 10/20/2023
Illustration: Hanneke Rozemuller Family life | Great Britain A quiet goodbye Since he can remember, there has been a deep rift between Daljit Nagra and his parents. He is ashamed of their narrow-mindedness; they despise his transformation into a “white man”. Memories of a difficult childhood By Daljit Nagra 10/16/2023
Photo: Emil Malmborg Family life | Sweden “Your children are who they are” In her graphic novels, illustrator Liv Strömquist explores the everyday absurdities of being a mother — and the funny side of parenthood Interview with Liv Strömquist 10/16/2023
Mouss Ould Kaci was born in France and is a father and activist. Photo: Alexia Fiasco Living together | France Love is thicker than blood A Paris flat, three daughters and at least as many chosen relatives: The family of 63-year-old widower Mouss Ould Kaci redefines family ties. A visit to France By Nadia Kara 10/16/2023
Judge Abby Abinanti is a member of the Yurok, an indigenous community in Northern California, and has worked for Californian state courts for many years Photo: private Indigenous justice | USA “These days, we have very few trials” Judge Abby Abinanti worked for decades in both U.S. state courts and the Yurok Tribal Court. She says many lessons can be learnt from her community’s close-knit approach to justice Interview with Abby Abinanti 09/20/2023
Ugandan author and activist Stella Nyanzi is currently living in exile in Germany Photo: Maximilian Gödecke Family | Uganda Dear Mummy and Daddy, rest in peace! Persecution, prison, exile: Life has moved fast for the Ugandan poet Stella Nyanzi since her parents died. So much has changed that she she’s catching up with the past. A farewell letter to Mummy and Daddy. By Stella Nyanzi 09/20/2023
Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi Photo: Chen Meng-Ping für Kulturaustausch Literature | Taiwan From Taipeh to Beijing, with love Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi and Chinese writer Yan Lianke exchanged letters for us. The result is a very personal exchange about censorship, loss, and the pain that is expressed between the lines By Yan Lianke, Wu Ming-Yi 06/01/2023
Chen Inzone, 38 years old, works as a farmer and lives in Jiali Photo: private Vox pop | Taiwan Military service and cats Students, a fish farmer, a beautician and an activist: we asked eight Taiwanese people what’s on their mind 06/01/2023
Photo: Iqra Shabaz Fiction | USA “Americans blame poverty on the poor” In his debut novel, Jakob Guanzon explores the reality of the “working poor” in the US. An interview about fathers and sons, money troubles and the dangerous legacy of the American Dream Interview with Jakob Guanzon 06/01/2023
Fiction | Rwanda Mother Courage How to write about genocide: Scholastique Mukasonga reflects on her mother’s story to chart Rwanda’s troubled history. By Ronya Othmann 07/01/2022
Photo Robin Utrecht / picture alliance Black and white thinking “Do you want a bodyguard?” Threatened from all sides, the young author Lale Gül is paying a high price for her self-determination By Lale Gül 04/14/2022
Fiction | Vietnam A hundred years of violence The Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells a family tale from her war-ravaged land By Sabine Scholl 10/01/2021
Photo: Magda Hueckel Literature | Poland “Our trauma has a million faces” The writer Joanna Bator is one of the most important voices of contemporary Polish literature. Her new novel is about angry women and women and deep psychological wounds. Is that coincidence or a statement? Interview with Joanna Bator 07/01/2021
