Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Audre Lorde Film Around the World

May 2020 Newsletter • ENG / DEU

Alison c. Guenther-Pal, Vanessa Plumly, Amy Ongiri, Lawrence University

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York City

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York City

Nine Years after its world premiere in Berlin Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 continues travelling around the world! Since our August 2019 newsletter with reports from places as far apart as Brazil and Kosovo, the film was shown in

• Brussels
• San Francisco
• Lawrence University in Wisconsin
• the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation together with the Goethe Institut, New York City
• Brno in the Czec Republic
• Geneva, Switzerland
• the University of Stavanger in Norway
• Audre Lorde’s and Gloria Joseph’s home island St. Croix in the Caribbean
• a number of screenings in Germany.

In December I was in Poznan, Poland where the Arsenal Gallery had produced Polish subtitles! (photo right: Arsenal Gallery, Poznan)

Most exciting were the screenings in South Korea. Young-Rong CHOO, who had seen the film in Berlin, decided to produce Korean subtitles and organized screenings in Seoul. The interest was so great that she made contracts with „pop.up cinema“, a platform for community screenings.

Seoul, South Korea	Da Eun LEE and Young-Rong CHOO
As of July 9th, the German distributor of the Film, Edition Salzgeber, will stream the film world-wide on Vimeo as video on demand! (https://vimeo.com/salzgeber). The film now has subtitles in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese-Brazilian, Polish and Korean!
Other news: In Berlin a street will be renamed after Audre Lorde upon the initiative of the Green Party! Several events were organized, some had to be postponed because of Corona, but we hope to finalize the action this year!
Two books were published: a reprint of Audre Lorde’s personal selection of her poetry in the bilingual edition “Die Quelle unserer Macht” (The Source of Our Power), Unrast Verlag Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe. Selected seminars and interviews 1984 – 1992, edited by Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro was published by Kenning Editions in Chicago (ww.kenningeditions.com) Mayra worked with the materials in the Audre Lorde Archive at the Free University of Berlin. She transcribed the audio recordings of the seminars Audre taught in 1984 as well as interviews, readings and other documents – a truly exceptional work! Launch events for Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe have been postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis. Future events will be hosted at De Appel (Amsterdam), Artists Space (New York), Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung (New York), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), and Hyle (Athens).  To celebrate the book release Mayra produced a unique video of remote readings from the book by women of color – enjoy and share! An additional book on Audre Lorde to be recommended, also published by Unrast Verlag: Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde by Marion Kraft, translator of Audre Lorde’s poetry e.g. in Die Quelle unserer Macht

I also point out the last newsletters on events in different parts of the world (found under Film Journal on the website).

August 2019 | February 2018 | August 2017 | December 2016 | December 2014 | June 2014 | March 2014 | January 2014 | December 2013 | September 2013 | July 2013 | April 2013 | 2012 (the first one!)

Best wishes,
Dagmar Schultz

P.S. Go on tour with the Audre Lorde in Berlin Online Journey - enjoy photos, audios, videos.

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