The book series “Das Echolot” by the writer Walter Kempowski consists of four parts and ten individual volumes. It presents an uncommented collage of letters, diaries, autobiographical memoirs, and photographs from the World War II era. Walter Kempowski 1993-2005: Das Echolot. A collective diary. Munich: Knaus If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link can be found here.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywy-Tthdg7w Der Text dieses Gedichts von John Agard ist, inklusive eines Unterrichtsentwurfs in englischer Sprache, hier zu finden. John Agard 1987: Listen Mr Oxford Don. Aus: Agard, John: Mangoes and Bullets. London: Serpent’s Tail
The Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975) wrote, among other things, about experiences of exile, homelessness and not belonging. This website provides information about her life and work. Mascha Kaléko 2012: Complete Works and Letters in Four Volumes. Munich: dtv If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found here.
This short story (full text here) can be read as an allegory for colonialism as a whole. The German title is “Shooting an Elephant” and is published in the following volume: Meistererzählungen von George Orwell, Gebundene Ausgabe (11th edition), Diogenes Verlag (2003). George Orwell 1936: Shooting an Elephant. In: New Writing No. 2 If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found here.
This poem by writer Rudyard Kipling (“The Jungle Book”) was published in 1899 under the impression of the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies. The poem is considered one of the essential testimonies of colonialism, and it is debatable whether it criticizes or glorifies imperialism. It can be found here in English and German. See also Promoe’s song of the same name, critical of colonialism and racism.
The title poem from it can be found here. A street in Berlin is now named after the Afro-German writer and activist May Ayim. See also the song about May Ayim by Linton Kwesi Johnson. May Ayim 1995: Blues in Black and White. Berlin: Orlanda
Kum’a Ndumbe III 2005 [Orig. 1970]: Ah, Cameroon! Our old German colony. A documentary piece. Berlin: Exchange & Dialogue
Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola wrote this book in 1946. It is the first African novel to be published in English outside of Africa. It has been controversial because it is written in a modified Yoruba English or pidgin English. The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into numerous languages. Amos Tutuola 2014: The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town. London: Faber & Faber If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects…
Mutlu Ergün 2010: Kara Günlük. The Secret Diaries of Sesperado. Münster: Unrast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAoa2JywxBA Der Liedtext findet sich hier.
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The comic, jointly produced by the Association for Development Policy of Lower Saxony (VEN) and 123 Comics, aims to raise awareness of topics such as the global world market and the critical use of consumer goods. It represents an attempt to take up the criticism of the “global learning” approach and to present other forms of presentation. Stereotypes are avoided in text and imagery. German society is also presented as a migration society, but class issues are left out. Thus, relatively simple solutions (the purchase of fair trade products) are offered for very complex topics such as world trade, and…