Glasfaeden 4+

An interactive comic about Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR.

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.