The confrontation of Germany’s racist past was a beautiful ideal, but one that was never realised writes Jacinta Nandi Read More
‘Lebenslüge’, the myth that German racism began and ended with the Holocaust
German football and the hidden racism lost in translation for Germans of colour
Germany has been praised as an example of an open and diverse society but Karin Louise Hermes explains how the treatment of German footballers exposes deeper societal issues. Read More
Reflections on Berlin’s first African literature festival
Gouri Sharma reflects on the success of the first African literature festival in Berlin and how it has opened the door to more festivals of its kind in the city Read More
Writers in Translation
by Sinthujan Varatharajah A few days ago, I was sitting with a friend, we were casually chatting when I suddenly remembered that her father is a writer – as is my mother. I remembered that we somehow knew each other through our parents who again knew each other through diasporic writers’ circles. We laughed about… Read More
“No, I meant where are you really from?” on being black and German
by Ella Achola “No, I meant where are you really from?” is a micro-aggression I am all too familiar with when my simple answer of “Berlin” is perceived as insufficient to a query that blatantly illustrates how my brown self is read as out of reach of possible German citizenship. It is usually asked with… Read More
Fathering While Black Part 2 – On a Path of Forgiveness
by Zun Lee Read Part 1 of Fathering While Black Father absence was a personal double-whammy for me: I grew up with a Korean father who was married to my mother, lived at home with us, provided materially but was emotionally distant, and extremely physically abusive. From a census perspective, he’d be considered “present”, yet… Read More
