Neighbourhood walk in Johannstadt

At Dresdner Nachbarschaften your life stories around past and future neighbourhoods become visible.

District walk “My Dresden. My choice.” – Johannstadt from Zahra’s point of view

Zahra had to flee her home country of Afghanistan with her family in 2017. Until the decision on her residence permit, she lived for the first few months in Glashütte, where “there wasn’t much more than the watch factory”. When finding a place to live in Dresden worked out, there were more opportunities for exchange and learning German. On her tour through Johannstadt, she reports on how she fared during her first days in Germany, coping with the new language and creating new perspectives.

The tour: At the stops like the mosque or the cultural centre, Zahra openly shares painful and joyful memories from her life then and now and is happy to talk to Ech about them.

Meeting point: The city tour starts at the corner of Lennéstraße/Stübelallee, near Straßburger Platz in front of Gläserne Manufaktur.

The route: The tour leads from Stübelallee through Johannstadt and ends at Johannstädter Kulturtreff. The route is barrier-free.

A horticultural engineer by training, she got her degree recognised in Germany, but this industry was not her plan. She was on fire for the IT sector, but she was not allowed to study it. The 35-year-old tells us why on her tour. Among other things, Zahra will introduce you to traditional Afghan food culture and dispel prejudices about Muslim women. It is very important to Zahra to inform you about her home country Afghanistan and how women are doing there since the Taliban came to power in the summer of 2021.

Zahra is a volunteer city guide at the„Dresdner Migrationsgeschichten: Frauen*stimmen sichtbar machen!“ Stadtführungen aus der Perspektive von Frauen* mit Fluchterfahrung zu den Themen Migration, Rassismus und Frauenrechte (an educational project of Ausländerrat Dresden e.V.), where analog & digital city tours are offered from the perspective of those affected by the topics of flight&Asylum, migration and racism. City guides with experience of flight and migration talk about their personal experiences and link stations of their own biography with places in the city.

Das Projekt Dresdner Nachbarschaften – Damals, Heute, Morgen / Zuhören, Erinnern und Gestalten wird gefördert durch das House of Resources Dresden+. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert mit Steuermitteln auf Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes im Rahmen des Landesprogrammes Integrative Maßnahmen.