LAMEBA - My Barcelona. Approaches to a city

Probably few cities in the world have been described and photographed as much as the Spanish metropolis and capital of Catalonia. Barcelona is one of the best-known and most interesting cities in the world. But the view of the camera and the traveler is often a quick, superficial view from the outside, a snapshot of all too familiar facades and always the same motifs combined with information about typical and curious things.

The city reader "LAMEBA - La meva - Mi - Mein Barcelona" aims to discover what makes up the city beyond the stereotypes in all its diversity and contradictions. The Catalan (and partly Spanish) Barcelona, the cosmopolitan (also gentrified) and rural Barcelona, the world-famous and the unknown Barcelona - from the opera to street art, from the cinema set and the literary scene to the soccer city: the beauty on the Mediterranean is a permanent experiment, intensely preoccupied with itself, with its past and its future, with its contradictions and its radiance, with the idea of being different and surprising. All of these are sources of its dynamism, its exuberant inspiration and its beguiling charm.

The city is the people who live in it, who grew up there or have found a new (chosen) home. Based on their stories and perspectives - supplemented by an image and sound collage - a reading and discussion will encourage a multi-layered examination of the metropolis. How do we perceive it (and other world cities)? Can you feel at home even as a foreigner? Ronald Grätz (cultural manager and publisher of LAMEBA), Michi Strausfeld (literary mediator) and Marie Kapretz (delegate of the government of Catalonia in Germany) will explore these and other questions.
 

As part of the 21st European Cultural Days 2025 : Catalonia (external link, opens in a new window)of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (external link, opens in a new window)