Seeing Double: Charlotte Beradt’s Black Power Reportages

This event occurred on:  The lecture takes the German Jewish writer Charlotte Beradt’s radio reportages on black politics from the 1960s as an example of the exile’s double vision - forever seeing the place you left “behind” the one you inhabit - and as a model for transforming memories into spaces of encounter, potential, and political relation. In rewriting the history of “Black Power” for German radio listeners, Beradt thereby also challenges us to perk up our ears to the resonances of seemingly distant historical experiences.