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Some Call Us Balkans is a digital platform dedicated to exploring the cultural, historical, and social complexities of the Balkans region through various media forms including storytelling, essays, photography, and interviews. The website addresses themes such as identity, migration, memory, and the post-conflict realities that shape contemporary life in the region. It situates the Balkans within broader geopolitical and cultural frameworks while foregrounding local voices and experiences that challenge monolithic or stereotypical narratives about the area. The content on the site reflects a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from history, anthropology, literature, and art to provide nuanced perspectives on the Balkans. Frequent contributions come from academics, artists, journalists, and local inhabitants, highlighting the diversity of thought and lived realities within the region. This approach encourages critical engagement with the Balkans, emphasizing both its contested legacies and ongoing transformations in a globalized context.
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Young people tell what they stand up for politically. More than 250 young people between the ages of 11 and 29 submitted audio contributions for the storytelling competition “The Private is Poetic” of the Anne Frank Educational Centre in Frankfurt. They are about identity, self-determination, flight and arrival. About recognition, climate change and capitalism, fear of the future, co-creation and community.
In the audio walk, you can hear the contributions of the nine prize winners together with collages from other submissions.
Credits
idea: Astrid Kasperek
script: Sophie Burger
with competition entries by: Hannah Biedermann, Maja Royé, Canan Solmus, Casey Raabe, Hanna Veiler, Amina Rassul, Pia Sophie Möller, Jule Tschierschke, Anastasiia Mysik
narrator: Barbara Biel
script editing: Marie-Sophie Adeoso
postproduction: Fabian Eck
cover illustration: Marwa Yasin
commissioned by: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank
sponsor: Williem Blair International
Hosted by: Storydive
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