Street-punk Oki: Life outside society
No flat for Oki
By Peter Joerdell for R2-Horizon
Photo: © grundhaerte / photocase.com
Can you live in such a place? If you're homeless, you don't have much choice.
Solingen. Germany is a rich country. At least in international comparisons. That there are poor people here too, who don't live on the sunny side of the street, is all too often forgotten by those, who have everything. R2-editor in chief Peter Joerdell reports about meeting someone who lives outside society.
Asia“dorf“ Duesseldorf: Kim’s Asiamarkt / Asia-Mart
A piece of home to bite into
By Sun-Mi Jung for R2-Horizon
Fotos: MAT
Duesseldorf. R2-metropolis Duesseldorf. No other city in Germany has been influenced by people from East Asia in a comparable way. Apart from the inhabitants of Germany’s sole “Japantown“, the Japanese citizen, you find many Koreans and Chinese here. They all share the love for the foods and kitchen from “back home”. And you’ll find all this in the Korean-Asian super market Kim’s Asiamarkt. As part of our series “Asiadorf Duesseldorf“ (i.e. Asia Village Duesseldorf, since “dorf“ means “village” in German), R2-Horizont visited the super market. And discovered exotic delicacies and interesting people.
Eko-Kindergarten educates kids in both German and Japanese
Of polite children, intercultural competence
and "exotic" rice pudding
By Sun-Mi Jung for R2-Horizon
Photo: aro
German and Japanese kids visit the Eko-Kindergarten in Duesseldorf.
Duesseldorf-Niederkassel. Rice pudding is a no go. Sweet rice – that just doesn’t appeal to the Japanese palate. Yet the many German sweets, especially those in the festive season are a sensation to the Japanese kids who attend the kindergarten of the Eko-House in Duesseldorf. R2-Horizon visited the bi-cultural kindergarten, that gets Japanese kids closer to German culture and vice versa. An exchange that is not limited to rice pudding, Christmas-cookies and eating with chop-sticks.
Designer Cam Tu Nguyen on her experiences in Duesseldorf
Fashion design – beyond the fashion circus
By Peter Joerdell for R2-Stilikone / Style Icon
Photo: Nguyen
Cam Tu Nguyen.
Duesseldorf. Whenever Cam Tu Nguyen sits in front of her sewing machine, the 36-year old Duesseldorfer forgets time. Because she’s devoted her life completely to fashion. “Already in elementary school I knew, that I wanted to study fashion design one day“, she recounts, replacing a needle on her machine whilst looking up from the dress she’s working on. Cam Tu Nguyen has always been fascinated by beautiful clothes, but the decision to study fashion design is linked to one special event: “That was when I saw design drawings, which the older sister of a friend of mine from school had done.“
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