LESUNG: Frantz Fanon: ein Porträt

In the organizer's words:

An event as part of the extended exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War" 3www2

With: Alice Cherki (contemporary witness, comrade-in-arms of Fanon in Algeria in the 1950s, author of the Fanon biography)
Natasha A. Kelly (Professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin) & Zaphena Kelly (B.Sc. Psychology)

The psychiatrist and publicist Alice Cherki comes from Algeria, where she fought with Frantz Fanon in the 1950s to change the prison-like psychiatric institutions and to overcome French colonial rule. Half a century later, she wrote a personal portrait of the theorist of the anti-colonial liberation movements. It reveals that Fanon, who came from Martinique, volunteered to fight against the Nazi terror in Europe during the Second World War, but was also confronted with racism on the side of Free France. He later processed these experiences in his books(Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth).

The German edition of Fanon's biography, which was long out of print, was published in an expanded new edition in 2024 - with a foreword written by Natasha A. Kelly together with her daughter Zaphena Kelly . From an intergenerational perspective, they show that Fanon's voice is "indispensable" in current post-colonial discourses and should encourage people in this country to engage more intensively with "German colonial history" and "its impact on the present".

Admission: 5 | 3 euros (reduced), tickets: literaturhaus-koeln.de

In cooperation with: Literaturhaus Köln; Afrika Film Festival Köln / FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.; Friedensbildungswerk Köln; Allerweltshaus Köln e.V.; Eine Welt Netz NRW

Price information:

Admission: 5 | 3 Euro (reduced)