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German-Romanian success duos touring exhibition — Goethe-Institut București
In 2022, Germany and Romania celebrate 30 years of friendship treaty — a document attesting to the partnership between the two countries.
Since its signing, both countries have maintained intense diplomatic and political relations. Thus, people from Romania and Germany meet more and more often: in 2018, Romania was for the first time the country of origin with the largest number of immigrants in Germany.
Linked for centuries, for example through cultural minorities in both countries, and more recently since they became members of the European Union, Romanians and Germans are closer than ever. This provides an opportunity and motivation to focus on the personal perspectives of this friendship and the history of mutual migration.
WE 2 | WIR 2 uses journalistic narrative texts and artistic photographs to portray 30 couples from Germany and Romania who give life to this bilateral friendship. A person from Romania and one from Germany form a duo, a couple: versatile, even unusual, in their professional life, in their free time or in their private life. Their diverse stories reflect what this connection means in everyday life and what effects it has on the identity of individuals.
Documented by two photographers and five authors from Germany and Romania, these couples tell in different ways about shared happiness, but also about challenges, coincidences and collaborations, beyond the stereotypical representations of their migration stories.
