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 life story for the first time: growing up as a Black girl in East Germany, fleeing and losing, arriving in Berlin's Kreuzberg during the violent years of the early 1990s, and finding stability with an unconventional, loving mother. She writes about violence and discrimination, about ruptures and contradictions - but equally about love, motherhood, resilience and self-empowerment.

Ogette, a bestselling author and one of the leading voices in anti-racism discourse in Germany, as well as host of the "tupodcast", weaves personal experience together with social analysis - urgent, candid, and without easy answers. At this reading event, she speaks with Sharon Dodua Otoo about life in the in-between, about simultaneity, survival and hope - and about what it can mean today to feel at home in spite of 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)