Ana Macario
Ana Macario was born in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. Her parents immigrated from Portugal around 15 years prior. Her journey to Bremerhaven is primarily influenced by her academic career and her husband Hartmut. After completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Geophysics at the age of 19 in Oregon, USA, she starts her doctorate at Columbia University in New York. At the elite university, she meets a German scientist. The two marry and plan a shared future in southern Brazil, where they have both received teaching positions at a university. However, a Christmas visit to Germany opens up a new perspective through a job offer to her husband Hartmut: Bremerhaven. Thus, the couple moves to what is Ana Macario’s third port city in 1996. She initially works at the University of Bremen but later, after the birth of their first son, transitions to the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. The now four-member family regularly visits friends and relatives in New York and Rio de Janeiro. Ana Macario passed away in 2023. Ana Macario’s face has been displayed on the facade of the Deutsches Auswandererhaus since June 2021, alongside the portraits of other individuals who found a new home in the port city of Bremerhaven after their arrival in Germany.
Drinking glass, 2014
