Marion Kraft – Weltenwechsel
Reading with Dr Marion Kraft from her novel “Weltenwechsel”, moderated by Georgina Fakunmoju.
Date: 17 June 2025, 6.30 pm
Venue: Charlotte-Salomon-Saal, Hardenbergstr. 33, 10623 Berlin
Language: Spoken German
Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair accessible
Free admission. No booking required.
Speakers
Dr. Marion Kraft is an Afro-German author, literary scholar, lecturer, and translator. In her teaching, Marion Kraft's primary goal was to empower young people to form their own picture of the world, of themselves and others, and to perceive difference as an enrichment of social coexistence. In her books and essays, Marion Kraft engages with literature by Black women writers, feminism, racism, and the Black movement in Germany. As a translator, she has worked on works by Buchi Emecheta, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Amanda Gorman, among others. Weltenwechsel is her first novel.
Georgina Fakunmoju is a TV and radio journalist, book blogger, host, and the founder and voice of the literary podcast “Readers Gonna Read” (formerly: My PoC Bookshelf). In her podcast, she has been discussing predominantly non-white literature from Germany, Africa, and the African diaspora since 2021. Today, Georgina most enjoys exploring the endless world of books. Her passion lies in creating a reading community – a space where everyone, especially people pushed to the margins by the mainstream, have a place; where everyone is seen and heard; where we listen to each other, learn from one another, and feel how community strengthens and makes us happy.
About the action day
The #wessenfreiheit (whose freedom?) action day is a nationwide day of action organised by art universities. Every year since 2018, #wessenfreiheit has been organised at art academies to address institutional and social power in the art system. Gender show gap, gender pay gap, (sexualised) abuse of power, censorship...
#wessenfreiheit poses the urgent question “Who has access to the system and who is excluded?”