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The Reception of Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 – Voices From
Around The World When Audre first arrived in Berlin in 1984, I was the co-publisher of Orlanda Press (then sub rosa Frauenverlag) and we published several of Audre’s books in German. She came to Berlin each year until 1992 (except for 1985 when she was at the anthroposophic Lukas Clinic in Switzerland). One of Audre’s first questions upon arriving in Berlin was, “Where are the Black Germans?” She soon established close contact with Black women, some of whom attended her classes at the Free University of Berlin in 1984. As a result, we published the book Showing Our Colors: Afro-german Women Speak Out in 1986. more… |
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Audre
Lorde: The Berlin Years I first saw Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years (2012) when it was screened at the FWSA Biennial Conference in June 2013 at the University of Nottingham. The film focuses on the time the African American, feminist, lesbian, warrior, poet, Audre Lorde spent travelling back and forth to Berlin between 1984 and 1992, and her influence on the Afro-German community.
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FIGHT THE PATRIARCHAL POWER Black woman, lesbian, militant feminist, librarian, poet, mother, warrior,
cog in the radical machine of the late ’60s and early ’70s—Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was all of those things
and more. Lorde was involved with both the black liberation and feminist movements, and her work transcends
gender and race, speaking loud and proud to anyone who’ll listen. Think of her as the queer Maya Angelou—except
she was the type to take a chain saw to the cage and let that motherfuckin’ bird sing free. |
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makeshiftmag.com Alexis Pauline Gumbs …As a film created by a white German feminist colleague and comrade of Lorde’s, the film importantly includes many of Lorde’s imperatives to white feminist would-be allies, whom Lorde called on urgently during a time in Berlin, much like today, when neo-Nazi violence against people of color and immigrants made clear the genocidal persistence of white supremacy. Schultz shows Lorde talking to packed rooms of mostly white women in the tone of tough love and outrage. I know that many women of color who are tired of telling white feminists what Audre Lorde and many other feminists of color have already stated so clearly hope that our would-be allies will pay special attention to these moments in the film. … (download here) |
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Interview with Dred Scott Keye's: The Cutting Edge, WBAI, NYC |
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You Should Go: Audre
Lorde, Stand Tall Wine and Open Mic in Miami |
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kpfa
Women's Magazine:
Focus on Film • Director Dagmar Schultz and co-author Ika Hügel-Marshall speak with Paola Bachetta about their film Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years. This unique film documents the time that Black feminist icon Audre Lorde spent in Berlin between 1984 and 1992. Her presence there helped to build a community of Afro-German women. She also challenged white feminists to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways. The film will screen at Oakland's Parkway Theater on March 31. |
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Shape of My Impact “I love the word survival, it always sounds to me li5e a promise. It makes me wonder sometimes though, how do I define the shape of my impact upon this earth?” –reflection cut from an early draft of “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred and Anger” by Audre Lorde (Audre Lorde Papers, Spelman College Archive) (download here) |
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Audre Lorde—Her Years in Berlin “The political and social situation in Berlin and to an even greater extent in the rest of Germany is a nightmare. And what makes it worse is the overlay of pleasantness it is still quite possible to find. The only real hope is the growing horror of groups of people like the healing practitioners, the small publishers, the social workers, women’s groups etc, but those grassroots outcries and demonstrations are coming together really slowly, it takes a lot to galvanize them because in many cases they really do not believe their own history.” Audre Lorde, in a Letter to fellow poet Adrienne Rich, Sept 20, 1992 (download here) | |
'Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992': Interview with Dagmar Schultz, By Ellise Fuchs (download here) |
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Audre
Lorde Film Presents Poetry in Action |
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The festival—which has traveled to other parts of the United States—featured a book reading, film screenings and Q&A sessions with author Ika Hugel-Marshall and filmmaker and lesbian activist Dagmar Schultz. -Windy City Times (download here) | |
TGLFF
Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012:
Dagmar Schultz e Ika Huegel-Marshall
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Dagmar Schultz’s witty, engaging, humorous, and loving documentary on Audre Lorde felt both timely and nostalgic at the same time. Timely, because it reminded me of the fragility of the feminist movement and the current attempts by many American politicians to undermine it. Timely because of the ongoing conversations and debates about immigration in Europe in light of the recession. Timely for me because of all the films I’ve seen this year about artists who speak out for a living (Ai Wei Wei, Iranian directors, Marjane Satrapi, et al.) ~Leonine Films (downlod here) | |
New Audre Lorde film
looks at her time in Berlin "The Berlin Years" shows both the public and private side of Lorde, a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet" in the years before she lost her battle with cancer in 1992. It features never-before-seen videos, images and audio recordings of Lorde collected by the filmmaker Dagmar Schultz a now-retired professor, publisher and author from Berlin. (download here) |
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“…I wanted very much to do justice to what is obviously a labor of love and to Audre Lorde's legacy in general. This film truly captures what a delightful spirit she was/is. That's what I love so much about it—how it shows Lorde’s personality. Thank you again!”~ Akiba Solomon (download here) | |
…During her time in Berlin she helped give voice to a small community of Black Germans who discovered themselves and each other. She also correctly predicted with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the two Germany’s, that a time of extreme nationalism with a concurrent rise in racism would soon develop.…Victor's Movie Reviews (download here) | |
Documentary Film: Audre
Lorde -The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 “Lorde’s own voice shines through this inspiring film, filling us with her poetry and conviction.” ~Fringe! Film Festival |
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"Things you should know about Audre Lorde: she loved flowers, she had a deadpan sense of humor, and after her cancer diagnosis, she believed that being in Berlin added years onto her life.— TRISTA S. KENDALL(download here) | |
Audre Lorde: Black,Feminist, Lesbian, Poet, Mother,Essayist, Activist…….curvedmarginz (download here) | |
Fringe!
London’s Gay Film Festival Hello and welcome. My name is Sara Ahmed and I am delighted and honoured to introduce this film, Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years directed by Dagmar Schultz, and premiering in the UK today as part of Fringe! London’s Gay Film Festival. (download here) |
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Survival, feminist killjoys and the making of transnational counterpublics: on watching Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years ~ Elaine Castillo | |
Audre
Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984-1992 We have to fight for the "other" poet activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) would say. Whether of color or a minority, to her, a person of any race was no less affected by the racial prejudice perpatrated on others. "One opression does not justify another" she said. (download here) |
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This documentary incorporates archive material and interviews with Dagmar Schultz’s previously unreleased personal video archive, creating a portrait fortified by activism and stunning in its insight into her private world. Lorde’s own voice shines through this inspiring film, filling us with her poetry and conviction. | |
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and culture festival honors modern heroine The Audre Lorde film and cultural festival payed homage to the lesbian, black, female activist. (download here) |
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Pride on Film: Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (download here) | |
Two Women Artists: Audre Lorde and Dagmar Schultz. Florence Howe (download here) |
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FILM SCREENING/DISCUSSION: Co-sponsored
by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and The Audre Lorde Project Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984-1992: Tina Campt, Ika Hugel Marshall, Dagmar Schultz (download here) |
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Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (download here) | |
Berlinale Panorama Director, Wieland Speck, discusses 2012 programme (download here) (scroll down 3/4 of the page) What can the gay movement learn from other social movements?
I believe that many different movements can learn from one another. The documentary Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years. 1984-1992by Dagmar Schultz shows this with great urgency: Audre Lorde is a black, lesbian feminist, poet, author and human rights campaigner |
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Third World Newsreel Acquires "Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992" For March Release + Trailer |