Afro-German Studies
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Recent papers in Afro-German Studies
In dem Artikel wird aufgezeigt, wie sich Kernideen des Afropolitanismus in afrodeutscher Gegenwartslyrik wiederfinden. Die lyrischen Texte "Dein Land" von Philipp Khabo Koepsell, "travelling" von Olumide Popoola und "heimatlos [versuch... more
In this article I explore the influence of Afrofuturism on Olivia Wenzel's play Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien. The play focuses on the black German protagonist Noah by showing scenes from his life, ranging from his childhood in... more
Dies ist der erste Versuch, das Leben des aus der Karibik stammenden Offiziers William Nicolas Reed zu rekonstruieren, der 1848 der einzige schwarze Offizier einer deutschen Armee war. Reed war eine historisch bemerkenswerte... more
In 1877, the African American musical ensemble known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers traveled to Germany to raise money for their university. The choir’s ten-month tour provided German listeners with one of their first significant and... more
African American soprano Grace Bumbry sparked a controversy in West Germany when she became the first black musician to sing at the Bayreuth Festival Opera House in July 1961. This article demonstrates how race served two separate... more
This chapter examines how white Germans and Austrians defined the relationship between art music and black musicianship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that listeners came to believe that African American spirituals –... more
When African American concert singers began to perform German lieder in central Europe in the 1920s, white German and Austrian listeners were astounded by the veracity and conviction of their performances. How had they managed to sing... more
May Ayim is one of the best-known representatives of both the Black German movement and Black German literature. Her individual and collaborative works helped to shape collective modes of Black German identity, making visible and... more
Der zweisprachige Sammelband "The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora" gibt Einblicke in die Erfahrungen der Schwarzen Diaspora in Deutschland. Es werden zudem internationale Verbindungen zur Schwarzen... more
Unter Einbeziehung zahlreicher unterschiedlicher und teils unveröffentlichter Quellen aus Privatarchiven rekonstruiert Tiffany N. Florvil die Geschichte der modernen Schwarzen deutschen Bewegung. In sechs ansatzweise chronologisch... more
publicado em: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4uupogg_hHNRk9IZEVKMm9HUnc/view Resumo: O presente artigo apresenta ao público brasileiro a poeta afro-alemã May Ayim (1960-1996) e traça bases teóricas de minha pesquisa de mestrado em... more
The popular perception of the First World War has remained an inherently white mythic space in which white men fight against other white men and where minorities, when and if they are featured, are given an anonymous secondary role and... more
1992 brachte die Gruppe "Advanced Chemistry" in Eigenregie den Song "Fremd im eigenen Land" heraus. Die Single markierte den Wendepunkt in der Entwicklung von deutschsprachigem Rap und war in zweierlei Hinsicht ein besonderes Ereignis.... more
Moving Memory is an international transdisciplinary festival curated by laYla Zami and Oxana Chi
Growing numbers of Black men and women spent time in Germany in the period immediately prior to the outbreak of World War One. This was foremost a consequence of the establishment of a German colonial empire in Africa in 1884 and the... more
Dies ist der erste Versuch, das Leben des aus der Karibik stammenden Offiziers William Nicolas Reed zu rekonstruieren, der 1848 der einzige schwarze Offizier einer deutschen Armee war. Reed war eine historisch bemerkenswerte... more
Studies of transnational Afro-German heritage have overlooked the possibility that an Afro-German from the post-WWII period has been raised in the U.S. with a German birth mother. This chapter explores the critical contexts of... more