arts in exile

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  Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl holds a speech at Prague Castle on the occasion of the signing of the Neighbourhood Treaty;  4th from right: Czech President Vaclav Havel.

  Bundesregierung / Photographer: Arne Schambeck

  27 February 1992

  Chancellor Kohl and Czech President Havel sign the "Agreement on Neighbourliness and Friendly Cooperation" in Prague
  It serves to commemorate, among other things, the victims of "tyranny, war and expulsion" and to further affirm the nullity of the Munich Agreement, as the Treaty of Prague had done before it.
• 1 July 1992

  The "Revised Asylum Procedure Law" comes into effect. The law aims to speed up expulsion of unsuccessful asylum applicants.
• 2 July 1992

  On the 80th birthday of writer Hilde Domin, the city of Heidelberg awards her a prize for "Literature in Exile".
  Since 2006, the "Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile" has been awarded every three years in commemoration of the author and her achievements.
• 22 August 1992

  Far-right riots directed at an asylum seekers' hostel in Rostock-Lichtenhagen
  From August 22 to 26, right-wing extremist hooligans lay siege to an apartment block that serves as a central refugee shelter and a boarding residence for former Vietnamese contract labourers. The extremists are applauded by sympathetic onlookers and police efforts are not sufficient to stop the rioters.
• 8 November 1992

  In Berlin, 350,000 people demonstrate against xenophobia and for tolerance and human rights.
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  Citizens of Mölln in front of the burnt-out house in which three Turkish people were killed by an arson attack carried out by right-wing extremists.

  Bundesregierung / Photographer: Wolfgang Venohr

  22/23 November 1992

  Three Turkish women die in arson attacks on buildings inhabited by people of Turkish origin.
• 6 December 1992

  Political parties CDU/CSU, FDP and SPD agree on the "asylum compromise".
  The compromise agreement places serious limitations on the basic right to asylum, which had been written into the Federal Republic's constitution as an enforceable personal right in 1949. During the debate on the legislative changes, the problematic term "abuse of asylum law" assumes a central importance.
• 10 December 1992

  The Bundestag debates political extremism and unanimously votes to condemn xenophobia and anti-Semitism (as it had done on 8 October).
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  Following attacks in Mölln and in the eastern part of Germany, thousands of people – also in the federal states of former West Germany (here in Düsseldorf) – take to the streets in protest against racism and xenophobia. Photo taken on 1 February 1993

  Bundesregierung

  13. Dezember 1992

  In Hamburg, hundreds of thousands form a chain of light to show their solidarity with foreigners and declare their opposition to xenophobia. Similar actions take place in other German cities.
• 25 February 1993

  The exhibition German Intellectuals in Exile. Their Academy and the 'American Guild for German Cultural Freedom' is staged at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main.