On the Road

In order to inform the general public about the project and to collect data for the database on location – town centres, railway stations etc. – the Mobile-Info-Module was developed. This consists of a light wooden trolley with a built-in folding table and two folding stools. Carried in a Becoming German Travel Bag a laptop with the database installed on the local hard drive is used to collect data on the road. Data collected in this way is later uploaded onto the live internet database with a specially developed synchronisation software tool.

During the summer months of 2005 I travelled through many parts of Germany with the Mobile-Info-Module and approached people on the street asking them to tell me about their childhood. This enabled a direct exchange between the storyteller and listener in the tradition of oral history.

Both past and future stations of the journey are listed under News and photographic documentation of the project can be found in the photo album.

For further information on the project and my curriculum vitae can be found in the following PDF files:

Becoming German - Project Description (286KB)
Becoming German - On the Road (231KB)
Joanne Moar - Curriculum Vitae (80KB)