The Asia Pacific Times Online - A piece of Vietnam in Berlin. Hoanh Tuy Vuong spent the Vietnam War as a photographer at the front and in 1987, immigrated to Germany.
In Berlin, he lent his name to the famous restaurant, Monsieur Vuong, and became an ambassador for Vietnamese culture. Hoanh Tuy Vuong enters the restaurant with a vital, purposeful stride. He walks up to his two sons, who are already seated at one of the tables. Affectionately, he strokes them on the back of the head and greets them in Vietnamese. Vuong is 73 years old and came to Germany 20 years ago.
Vuong is impeccably dressed. For the young Vuong, photography became a passion - and his life's work. That attitude sustained him through his many attempts to escape Vietnam after the war ended. It was to be seven years before Vuong saw the reunion of his family. In 1987, he and the two other children were able to come to Germany under a family reunion agreement. Even today, Vuong is still the head of the family. . - Susann Hoffmann is a freelance journalist based in Berlin.
Slow Travel Berlin. To any casual visitor, it’s obvious: Berlin, in many ways, is a mess.
Despite twenty years of rebuilding and gentrification, of whitewash and polish, you’ll find prairie-size empty tracts just west of shiny new Potsdamer Platz and grimy, windowless buildings in Prenzlauer Berg. Decay and regeneration, subtle processes in most places, here are on brazen display. This layering of past and future, loss and hope, is thrown into sharp relief at the derelict former East German industrial site in northwestern Lichtenberg, where the Dong Xuan Center has sprung up over the past six years. Forged by the former East Berlin immigrant Vietnamese community, itself largely discarded and neglected by both old and new governments, the center opened its first hall in 2005 and has expanded ever since.
More than 12,000 Vietnamese live in Berlin—comprising the city’s second-largest minority—including about 5,000 naturalized citizens. The center is as close to Little Saigon as it gets in Berlin. The Vietnamese in Germany (Part 1 of 2) The largest population of Vietnamese people overseas is the United States with the biggest communities in Southern California and Texas.
What about Vietnamese immigrant and overseas communities elsewhere? In Europe? In Germany? Siehe unten für die deutsche Fassung. The Vietnamese in Germany (Part 2 of 2) The second of the two-part series on the Vietnamese in Germany, Kien Nghi Ha’s post takes the vantage of Vietnamese and Asian Germans to expand and discuss notions of immigration and the term of diaspora.
Siehe unten für die deutsche Fassung. Taking Asiatische Deutsche. Vietnamesische Diaspora and Beyond (Asian Germans. Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond) as a point of departure, Kien Nghi Ha points to the difference and various contexts of immigrant and diasporic life. Have you subscribed to diaCRITICS yet? This article, translated by Darell Wilkens, was first published in Jewish Museum Berlin Journal. Asian Germans – Diasporic Translocations by Kien Nghi Ha Despite the ongoing discourse that associates them with criminality, “the Vietnamese” today are increasingly seen as well integrated, model immigrants, who, in the populist and controversial doctrine of the German politician Thilo Sarrazin, are a stark contrast to the Muslim “problem groups.” Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? 'Dong Xuan Center:' A Taste Of Vietnam Via Lichtenberg : NPR FM Berlin Blog. Hide captionThe Dong Xuan Center is located off Herzbergstrasse in Lichtenberg.
Tam Eastley for NPR The Dong Xuan Center is located off Herzbergstrasse in Lichtenberg. Not too long ago, a friend told me about the vast warehouses of Lichtenberg that are home to Berlin's little known Vietnamese market. Nestled within an industrial area, surrounded by abandoned and crumbling brick buildings, and plastered with advertisements for Vietnamese driving schools and nail salons, is the Dong Xuan Center, named after Hanoi's market of the same name. The arched entrance way on Herzbergstraße opens up to an immense parking lot, framed by four large warehouses, which are home to Berlin's little taste of Asia.
After picking up a bag of Vietnamese organic mixed fruit chips, I set off exploring. hide captionGinger, carambola, bitter melon, and a variety of other foods are on sale in one of the grocery stores. I entered through a cloud of incense, emanating from a myriad of storefront shrines. Slow Travel Berlin.