Under ‘Map with landmarks’, you will find an interactive city map that provides access to individual audio tracks produced by students and explores the question of colonial and post-colonial landmarks in Oldenburg, venturing down historical side streets.

The landmarks tell stories, for example, of ‘Bünting Coloniale’ and ‘Rose am Stau’, where colonial goods were sold over the counters of Oldenburg’s shops; an inconspicuous memorial stone on Ofener Straße, which draws a connection to the genocide in former German South-West Africa; and a ‘human zoo’ that took place on the Dobbenwiesen in 1905. The audio tracks also set out in search of colonial traces at the State Museum of Nature and Mankind and follow an Oldenburg resident into the “Boxer Rebellion”.

For more on the project, see also the article “The Emperor’s Gunner” by Maik Nolte, published in the *taz* on 3 October 2012 :

TV report “Wer war Kanonier Kleen?” by Maik Nolte on the subject and the project:

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