Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Director: Dagmar Schultz
Cast: Audre Lorde
Germany | 2012 | 81 min
Audre Lorde grew up in New York as the daughter of Caribbean immigrants, studied at Columbia University, worked as a librarian and finally became a professor of English Literature at Hunter College. After a further active life as an artist and an acitvist (African-American, feminist and lesbian), she died in 1992 at the age of 58.
Audre Lorde’s years in Berlin in which she catalyzed the first movement of Black Germans to claim their identity as Afro-Germans with pride. As she was inspiring Afro-Germans she was also encouraging the White German feminists to look at their own racism.
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