# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 | Free Film Screening
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This celebrated documentary explores Audre Lorde's connections to Germany and her lasting friendships with Black German activists and poets.About this EventDir. Dagmar SchultzGermany, 2012, 79 min.Digital FormatIn English and German with English and German subtitlesThe poet, writer, and activist Audre Lorde was born February 18th, 1934, to Grenadian immigrant parents in New York City. This February, to celebrate the birthday of the self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet," join us for a screening of AUDRE LORDE: THE BERLIN YEARS 1984-1992 to learn more about her connections to Germany and Black German activism. The film will be introduced by Bryana Jones, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, who will reflect on Lorde's significance to the development of Black feminist and queer theory and her connections to international movements for social justice.This documentary explores a little-known chapter of the writer’s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while she challenged white German women to acknowledge and constructively use their white privilege.This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz’s personal archive, including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage. With testimony from Lorde’s colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde’s lasting legacy in Germany. The film includes appearances from, among others, May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, Gloria I. Joseph, Ilona Bubeck, and Traude Bührmann, as well as Ika Hügel-Marshall and Ria Cheatom, both of whom collaborated on the making of this film.ABOUT THE SPEAKERBryana Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University. With a background in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Bryana has taught courses at Georgia State University, Spelman College, and Northwestern University, including a recent critical theory and literature course titled "The Poetics and Erotics of Audre Lorde." Bryana's research interests include Black queer and trans feminisms; queer masculinities; affect; storytelling and/as theory; Lordean poetics and erotics; and the historical development of racialized genders and sexualities in U.S. and non-U.S. contexts. Her current project theorizes how queer Black people mobilize affect and feeling to articulate gendered and sexed ways of being outside of and beyond white supremacist constraint.Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public, but please register in advance and bring a state- or federally-issued photo ID for check-in in our lobby.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years-1984-1992-|-free-film-screening/100001981594842517
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, art, literary-art, workshops, storytelling
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Goethe-Institut Chicago
- **lat**: 41.88482
- **long**: -87.62493899999998
- **full address**: Goethe-Institut Chicago, 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 | Free Film Screening being held?
  - **A:** Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 | Free Film Screening takes place on Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Goethe-Institut Chicago, 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 | Free Film Screening?
  - **A:** Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 | Free Film Screening is organized by Goethe-Institut Chicago.

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