Film Screening : 26.04.2024, Hope in my Heart: The May Ayim Story by Maria Binder (1997) & Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years by Dagmar Schultz (2012)

“Hope in my Heart: The May Ayim Story” is a moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the history of Afro-Germans, but also her political poetry, made her known in Germany and other countries.
Ayim wrote in the tradition of oral poetry and felt a strong connection to other black poets of the diaspora. Poetry gave her an opport