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ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

Audre Lorde, the renowned African-american poet, author and activist, lived from 1984 to 1992 each year for weeks and months at a time in Berlin. Are you interested in the time Audre Lorde shared in Berlin with her comrades and friends? Want to visit the places where she lived, worked and spent her leisure time? All of this you can experience in this a self-guided digital journey containing photos, videos and sound clips.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE

choose the language in the upper right hand corner (en/de)
the easiest way: use the content list on this menu page – click on the title that interests you and get directly to the location
to return from the menu pages to the city map: click on the back button
Opening the location you find a text under the first photo
click through the photos/videos
to return to the city map and the menu pages: click the X in the upper right hand corner!!
in case you do not use the table of contents but click the icons on the map, the icons will change color: red (not visited); green (visited); yellow (last visited)

for all locations which include videos and/or audios

Plötzensee Memorial

Audre reading her poem “This Urn contains Earth from German
Concentration Camps” (audio/video)

Frannzclub

Audre reading her poem “Stations”, 1990 (audio/video)

East Side Gallery

Audre and Gloria I. Joseph on German politics after the fall of the wall
(audio/video of Audre in 1990; video of Gloria in 1995)

May-Ayim-Ufer

shows the street named after May Ayim. And a video of May reading her poem
“Afro-German” at a festival in South Africa in 1995 as well as another clip of her reciting her poem "Borderless and Brazen" ( an excerpt from the film "Hope in the Heart").

Kato

Audre at the third anniversary of the ISD (Initiative of Black Germans) in
1989 (video)

Schokofabrik

Audre on the women’s movement in Berlin, 1987 (audio/video)

Café April

Ika Hügel-Marshall on Audre encouraging her to write, 2011 (video)

Südstern

Audre on her political credo (audio/video)

Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences

Audre reading her poem “Thanks to Jesse Jackson”, 1991 (video)

Die Zwei

Audre dancing (video)

Ku’Damm

Audre shopping (video)

America House

Audre’s introductory words at her reading at the annual conference of the
Association of Northamerican Studies in 1984 (video 1)
Audre referring to the relations between Black and
white women and reading her poem “A Woman Speaks”, 1984 (video 2)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Audre at the conference “A Dream of Europe” in 1988 on the role of
hyphenated people in Europe (audio/video)
Memorial "Celebration of Life" for Audre Lorde on February 6, 1993 (video compilation)

Academy of the Arts

Audre reading from her novel ZAMI, 1987 (video)

Technical University Berlin

Audre reading her poem “Harriet”, 1984 (audio/video)

Winterfeldtmarkt

Audre on her times as a child in a catholic school, 1991 (video)

Begine

place where Audre stayed in 1988; Audre on the role of her German
publishing house Orlanda concerning anti-racism, 1992 (video)

Gustav-Müller-Platz

Audre reads her poem “Berlin is hard on colored girls” (audio/video)

Orlanda Press 1

Audre and Gloria I. Joseph on the necessity of white women facing
racism at a reading in Basel, 1984 (video)

Grossgörschenstrasse / Orlanda Press 2

Audre reading her poem “East Berlin 1989”, 1992 (video 1)
Audre reflecting on her poem “East Berlin 1989”, 1992 (video 2)
Audre dancing at her last party in Berlin in 1991;
Audre on the market; carrying flowers; singing on the balcony;
Audre talking about a book of her poems to be published by Orlanda Press, 1992 (video 3)
Audre in conversation with Southafrican author and activist Ellen Kuzwayo, 1992 (video 4)

Kuno’s Praxis