Tupoka Ogette: "Trotzdem zuhause" - Reading and Conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo

"This is where my story begins. As the daughter of a white woman and a Black man. Between Sange in southern Tanzania and Gera in Thuringia. Between a colonial past and the GDR dictatorship." In Trotzdem zuhause, Tupoka Ogette tells her own moving life story for the first time. She writes about growing up as a Black girl in the GDR, about flight and loss, about arriving in Kreuzberg during the so-called "baseball bat years", and about an unconventional, loving mother who gave her stability. Ogette writes about violence and discrimination, about ruptures and contradictions, but equally about love, motherhood, resilience and self-empowerment.

A bestselling author and one of the most prominent voices in anti-racism discourse in Germany, as well as the host of the "tupodcast", Ogette weaves personal experience together with social analysis - urgent, candid, and without easy answers. In a reading and conversation with Daniel Schreiber, she talks about living in the in-between, about simultaneity, survival and hope, and about what it can mean today to feel at home despite everything.

"Rarely do you read texts written with such an open, honest heart. Tupoka Ogette tells of life and survival in Germany. Of struggle and triumph. Of despair and hope."
(Alice Hasters)