Katharina Oguntoye is an Afro-German writer, historian, and activist in Berlin, co-editor of Farbe bekennen (1986), the foundational anthology of Afro-German women’s writing that grew out of Audre Lorde’s Berlin circle. She received the Berlin Lesbian Visibility Prize in 2020 and the Order of Merit of Germany in 2022. In her own oral-history testimony she speaks of being ‘fresh after my coming out’ at the…
Career
Writer; Historian; Activist
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
Afro-German
Additional Languages
German; English
Pronouns
She/Her
1986
Co-editor
The first book to use the term ‘Afro-Germans’ and the first to describe the everyday racism they experienced. Edited by May Ayim (May Opitz), Dagmar Schultz, and Katharina Oguntoye; first published in German as Farbe bekennen by Orlanda Frauenverlag in 1986. The English translation was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1992, with a foreword by Audre Lorde.