A joint event of the Women\u2019s Representative and the Library of the John
\nF. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies<\/p>\n
Audre Lorde, afro-american author, feminist and civil rights activist,
\ntaught in 1984 as a guest professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for
\nNorth American Studies.<\/p>\n
As celebrated icon of the second feminist movement Lorde inspired
\nseveral generations with her engaging poetry. In 1991 she received the
\nWalt Whitman Citation of Merit which declared her from 1991 to 1993 New
\nYork State Poet Laureate. From 1984 to 1992 Lorde spent each year
\nseveral months in Berlin and read from her work in Germany, Switzerland,
\nthe United Kingdom and the Netherlands. During this time she affected
\nblack and white feminists in Germany and beyond especially by linking
\nthe themes of racism and feminism.<\/p>\n
Afro-german women participated in the courses which Audre Lorde offered
\nat the John F. Kennedy Institute, and Lorde motivated them to write and
\nto publish. Thus she influenced in a major way the beginnings of an
\nafro-german movement.<\/p>\n
Dagmar Schultz, publisher of Lorde\u2019s work in Orlanda Verlag, documented
\nLorde\u2019s impact in the film \u201eAudre Lorde \u2013 the Berlin Years 1984 to
\n1992\u201c. The film is based on a large variety of photos, audio- and video
\nrecordings, letters and posters which Dagmar Schultz had made and
\ncollected as companion of Lorde. She gave this historical raw material
\nas well as the papers of Orlanda Verlag as an archive on Audre Lorde to
\nthe University Archive of Freie Universit\u00e4t.<\/p>\n
Lectures by Marion Kraft and Dagmar Schultz(in German language) remind
\nof the connection of Audre Lorde with the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut and
\nher influence of the afro-german movement.<\/p>\n
Subsequently the photo exhibition \u201eAudre Lorde \u2013 the Berlin Years\u201c will
\nbe opened in the library, where a reception will take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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