Fri February 16, 2018
Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 Film Screening and Conversation with Film Director and Co-Author
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Join us for a screening of the film Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 and a conversation with the film producer and director Dagmar Schultz and her co-author Ika Hugel-Marshall.
Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 documents Audre Lorde’s influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change, a decade that brought about thte fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of East and West Germany. It chronicles an untold chapter in Lorde’s life: her empowerment of Afro-German women, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways.
Supported by Lorde’s example Afro-German women began to write their history and their stories and to form political networks on behalf of Black people in Germany. As a result, authors such as May Avim, Katharina Oguntove, and Ika Hugel-Marshall published their works. Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 outlines Lorde’s contributions to the German discourse on racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, classism, and homophobia within the Black movement and the Black and white women’s movement, a discourse alive and growing today. Present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of Lorde’s ideas and the impact of her work and personality. For the first time, Dagmar Schultz’s archival video- and audio recordings and footage are being made available to the public.
About the Speakers
Dagmar Schultz is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher, and professor. Her teaching and research have focussed on feminist studies and women’s movements, on anti-racist social work, on women’s health care, and on cultural competence in the psychiatric care of migrants and minorities. She was a co-founder of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Berlin, the first of its kind in Germany. She also co-founded Orlanda Women’s Press, which published several works of Audre Lorde in German. In 2011 Schultz was honored by Peter-Andre-Alt "Margherita von Brentano Award", the highest endowed award for gender studies and women's projects in Germany. In 2012 Schultz became dignified the "Magnus-Hirschfeld-Award" for her life's work as one of the first activists of the lesbian and women's movement since the 1970s, an award donated by the gay section of SPD to honor outstanding achievements for the emancipation of lesbians, gays and transgender people. Schultz invested her prize money on the one hand in the structure of an Audre Lorde archive at the FU Berlin, on the other in a documentary about the Berlin years by Audre Lorde. Schultz was producer and director of the film, while she wrote the screenplay together with her partner Ika Hugel-Marshall. The film had its world premiere at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and has since been shown at 70 festivals all over the world and received seven awards.
Ika Hugel-Marshall is a German author and lecturer, who is a co-author of Audren Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992. In her autobiographical novel Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany. She writes about her life as a daughter of a Black officer from the United States army and a white German woman after World War II. As an “occupation baby,” born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago. She has a degree in social pedagogics.
This event is sponsored by the CIIS Women's Spirituality Program and the CIIS Center for Diversity and Inclusion. All funds raised to benefit the 2018 Women's Spirituality Conference, Women Rising: Women's Visionary Culture and Activism. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds.
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Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 documents Audre Lorde’s influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change, a decade that brought about thte fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of East and West Germany. It chronicles an untold chapter in Lorde’s life: her empowerment of Afro-German women, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways.
Supported by Lorde’s example Afro-German women began to write their history and their stories and to form political networks on behalf of Black people in Germany. As a result, authors such as May Avim, Katharina Oguntove, and Ika Hugel-Marshall published their works. Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 outlines Lorde’s contributions to the German discourse on racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, classism, and homophobia within the Black movement and the Black and white women’s movement, a discourse alive and growing today. Present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of Lorde’s ideas and the impact of her work and personality. For the first time, Dagmar Schultz’s archival video- and audio recordings and footage are being made available to the public.
About the Speakers
Dagmar Schultz is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher, and professor. Her teaching and research have focussed on feminist studies and women’s movements, on anti-racist social work, on women’s health care, and on cultural competence in the psychiatric care of migrants and minorities. She was a co-founder of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Berlin, the first of its kind in Germany. She also co-founded Orlanda Women’s Press, which published several works of Audre Lorde in German. In 2011 Schultz was honored by Peter-Andre-Alt "Margherita von Brentano Award", the highest endowed award for gender studies and women's projects in Germany. In 2012 Schultz became dignified the "Magnus-Hirschfeld-Award" for her life's work as one of the first activists of the lesbian and women's movement since the 1970s, an award donated by the gay section of SPD to honor outstanding achievements for the emancipation of lesbians, gays and transgender people. Schultz invested her prize money on the one hand in the structure of an Audre Lorde archive at the FU Berlin, on the other in a documentary about the Berlin years by Audre Lorde. Schultz was producer and director of the film, while she wrote the screenplay together with her partner Ika Hugel-Marshall. The film had its world premiere at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and has since been shown at 70 festivals all over the world and received seven awards.
Ika Hugel-Marshall is a German author and lecturer, who is a co-author of Audren Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992. In her autobiographical novel Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany. She writes about her life as a daughter of a Black officer from the United States army and a white German woman after World War II. As an “occupation baby,” born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago. She has a degree in social pedagogics.
This event is sponsored by the CIIS Women's Spirituality Program and the CIIS Center for Diversity and Inclusion. All funds raised to benefit the 2018 Women's Spirituality Conference, Women Rising: Women's Visionary Culture and Activism. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds.
Join us for a screening of the film Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 and a conversation with the film producer and director Dagmar Schultz and her co-author Ika Hugel-Marshall.
Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 documents Audre Lorde’s influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change, a decade that brought about thte fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of East and West Germany. It chronicles an untold chapter in Lorde’s life: her empowerment of Afro-German women, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways.
Supported by Lorde’s example Afro-German women began to write their history and their stories and to form political networks on behalf of Black people in Germany. As a result, authors such as May Avim, Katharina Oguntove, and Ika Hugel-Marshall published their works. Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 outlines Lorde’s contributions to the German discourse on racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, classism, and homophobia within the Black movement and the Black and white women’s movement, a discourse alive and growing today. Present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of Lorde’s ideas and the impact of her work and personality. For the first time, Dagmar Schultz’s archival video- and audio recordings and footage are being made available to the public.
About the Speakers
Dagmar Schultz is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher, and professor. Her teaching and research have focussed on feminist studies and women’s movements, on anti-racist social work, on women’s health care, and on cultural competence in the psychiatric care of migrants and minorities. She was a co-founder of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Berlin, the first of its kind in Germany. She also co-founded Orlanda Women’s Press, which published several works of Audre Lorde in German. In 2011 Schultz was honored by Peter-Andre-Alt "Margherita von Brentano Award", the highest endowed award for gender studies and women's projects in Germany. In 2012 Schultz became dignified the "Magnus-Hirschfeld-Award" for her life's work as one of the first activists of the lesbian and women's movement since the 1970s, an award donated by the gay section of SPD to honor outstanding achievements for the emancipation of lesbians, gays and transgender people. Schultz invested her prize money on the one hand in the structure of an Audre Lorde archive at the FU Berlin, on the other in a documentary about the Berlin years by Audre Lorde. Schultz was producer and director of the film, while she wrote the screenplay together with her partner Ika Hugel-Marshall. The film had its world premiere at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and has since been shown at 70 festivals all over the world and received seven awards.
Ika Hugel-Marshall is a German author and lecturer, who is a co-author of Audren Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992. In her autobiographical novel Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany. She writes about her life as a daughter of a Black officer from the United States army and a white German woman after World War II. As an “occupation baby,” born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago. She has a degree in social pedagogics.
This event is sponsored by the CIIS Women's Spirituality Program and the CIIS Center for Diversity and Inclusion. All funds raised to benefit the 2018 Women's Spirituality Conference, Women Rising: Women's Visionary Culture and Activism. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds.
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Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 documents Audre Lorde’s influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change, a decade that brought about thte fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of East and West Germany. It chronicles an untold chapter in Lorde’s life: her empowerment of Afro-German women, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways.
Supported by Lorde’s example Afro-German women began to write their history and their stories and to form political networks on behalf of Black people in Germany. As a result, authors such as May Avim, Katharina Oguntove, and Ika Hugel-Marshall published their works. Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 outlines Lorde’s contributions to the German discourse on racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, classism, and homophobia within the Black movement and the Black and white women’s movement, a discourse alive and growing today. Present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of Lorde’s ideas and the impact of her work and personality. For the first time, Dagmar Schultz’s archival video- and audio recordings and footage are being made available to the public.
About the Speakers
Dagmar Schultz is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher, and professor. Her teaching and research have focussed on feminist studies and women’s movements, on anti-racist social work, on women’s health care, and on cultural competence in the psychiatric care of migrants and minorities. She was a co-founder of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Berlin, the first of its kind in Germany. She also co-founded Orlanda Women’s Press, which published several works of Audre Lorde in German. In 2011 Schultz was honored by Peter-Andre-Alt "Margherita von Brentano Award", the highest endowed award for gender studies and women's projects in Germany. In 2012 Schultz became dignified the "Magnus-Hirschfeld-Award" for her life's work as one of the first activists of the lesbian and women's movement since the 1970s, an award donated by the gay section of SPD to honor outstanding achievements for the emancipation of lesbians, gays and transgender people. Schultz invested her prize money on the one hand in the structure of an Audre Lorde archive at the FU Berlin, on the other in a documentary about the Berlin years by Audre Lorde. Schultz was producer and director of the film, while she wrote the screenplay together with her partner Ika Hugel-Marshall. The film had its world premiere at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and has since been shown at 70 festivals all over the world and received seven awards.
Ika Hugel-Marshall is a German author and lecturer, who is a co-author of Audren Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992. In her autobiographical novel Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany. She writes about her life as a daughter of a Black officer from the United States army and a white German woman after World War II. As an “occupation baby,” born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago. She has a degree in social pedagogics.
This event is sponsored by the CIIS Women's Spirituality Program and the CIIS Center for Diversity and Inclusion. All funds raised to benefit the 2018 Women's Spirituality Conference, Women Rising: Women's Visionary Culture and Activism. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds.
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