Ge­fähr­li­che Orte | Copwatch Hamburg

St. Pauli is gritty, rough, and unrestrained. But that also means that since 2016, parts of St. Pauli have been stigmatised as ‘dangerous places’. This criminal policy construct allows the police to carry out so-called ‘suspicion-independent checks’. Black people and people of colour in particular are checked, criminalised, and harassed as a result. The open-air exhibition ‘Dangerous Places – Cop Watch Hamburg’ combines photographs and texts with excerpts from conversations with people who have experienced racist violence in the places depicted. They reveal spatial manifestations of structural violence – and make visible what is happening in this neighbourhood.

Content Note: The accompanying texts and quotations contain explicit descriptions of racial discrimination, police violence, deportation, and death in custody.

The exhibition is suitable for visitors aged 14 and above and is written in both German and English.