Film Screening: Audre Lorde–The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992

TUE, SEP 15 | 6 PM justBook-ish

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Tue, Sep 15

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Join Precious Chika Musa for a conversation centering the documentary "Audre Lorde- The Berlin years. The film follows Lorde and her time in Germany as she shaped, not just Black Feminist Thought, but also the Afro-German Movement.

Sep 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA

Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet helped ignite the Afro-German movement .

Q&A with Precious Chika Musa following the Screening

Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet and writer died in 1992. In the 1980s Dagmar Schultz, who at the time was lecturing at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Berlin’s Freie Universität, invited Lorde to Berlin as a visiting professor. This move was to have an enduring influence, for Lorde soon became co-founder and mentor of the Afro-German movement.

In her documentary portrait, Dagmar Schultz distils hitherto unpublished and often very personal material of Lorde that portrays her among her Berlin women friends, fellow-travellers and students, many of whom she encouraged to begin writing. These women were later to become poets and academics; they were the ones to create the first German-language works about Afro-German history and racism.

Director: Dagmar Schulz

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