Forced Abroad vs Glasfaeden

A story of a Dutch teenager, who is forced to work in Nazi Germany: The historical visual novel based on a real diary is now available for free. At first, 19-year-old Jan was still lucky. He narrowly avoids capture during a National Socialist raid, who aim to deport all young men from his hometown, Rotterdam, into forced labor. Yet only a few weeks later he is also drafted into labor service and deported to Germany. In his diary, he records his experiences throughout the last months of the Second World War. Dive into Jan's journals, make decisions regarding the course of his journey, and collect memories about his time in Nazi Germany. The historical visual novel based on real diary entries is available as a free mobile game.

Glasfäden is an interactive comic telling the stories of Vietnamese contract workers in East Germany. It was developed in close cooperation with the Viet-German community. It is the tale of two women from Chemnitz, Germany. The mother came to the GDR from Hanoi, Vietnam, via the socialist workers aid program. After the peaceful revolution in 1989, she was stranded in a country that was undergoing radical change. Her daughter was born into a family that was denied integration into society on many levels. Glasfäden builds on interviews with former contract workers and their descendants from Chemnitz and the surrounding area, which were woven into a narrative. Credits: Technical direction, code: Lisley Viraphong Code: Christian Knapp Graphics: Brian Main Production and game design: Ben "skodone" Wahl Audio: Ben "skodone" Wahl Narrative design: Georg Hobmeier Editing: Dr. Frauke Wetzel, Ngọc Bích Trần Project management now and ASA-FF: Dr. Frauke Wetzel Editorial development/interview guidance: Vũ Vân Phạm Photographers Chemnitz: Fabian Thüroff, Isabell Scheithauer Translation Vietnamese: Ngân Neumann Booklet: Author: Ngọc Bích Trần Editors: Dr. Frauke Wetzel, Vũ Vân Phạm, Ngọc Bích Trần Glasfäden is a project by: The project was realized via the project neue unentd_ckte narrative 2025 of the club ASA-FF (Chemnitz, Germany). It is part of the piece “So glücklich, dass du Angst bekommst“ of the puppet-theater Chemnitz. Partners and collaborators are: Die Theater Chemnitz, DOMiD, Causa Creations, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, Lehrstuhl Humangeografie und Interkulturelle Pädagogik of the TU Chemnitz. Funding partners: This app was funded by a project of ASA-FF e.V. and the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Programm Jugend erinnert and the funding of the fond Soziokultur of the comission of the Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM) NEUSTART KULTUR.