From Musa, Germany, November 2017

01 November 2017

Musa, Berlin, Germany

I am a poet, journalist and musician living in Berlin, where I have been since October 2014. The city, and increasingly the country - which I have travelled around more and more in recent months - has been an incredible source of creativity, and I hope to stay here for a long while yet. This is a photo of my local football team, SFC Friedrichshain Internazionale, in 2016; in this picture, we'd just won a penalty shoot-out to be promoted to the city's top amateur league. The club is truly diverse; its 25 squad members are drawn from 14 different nationalities, and its founding charter speaks out against homophobia, racism, sexism and fascism.

Musa

Photo Credit: Ben Ferry, Bloody Hell Magazine, 2016

This postcard is one of several collated as part of collaboration between Dr Michaela Benson and the Migration Museum. A selection of these appears in the Postcards from the British in Europe installation in Departures, the museum's current exhibition exploring four centuries of emigration from Britain, bringing Britain’s emigration story and its emigrants into the national conversation about migration