„Go Tell It on the Mountain“. Zum 100. Geburtstag von James Baldwin

Conversation with Renè Aguigah, Ijoma Mangold and Mirjam Zadoff

As a brilliant intellectual, he was elevated to the cover of Time magazine, as a black homosexual man threatened by a conservative, racist society: James Baldwin was both a fighter and a prophet, with books such as Giovanni's Room or Go, Tell it on the Mountain he has inscribed himself in world literature.

In his portrait The Witness (C.H.Beck, 2024), cultural journalist René Aguigah portrays Baldwin as one of the most important activists of his time. Ijoma Mangold, literary critic(Die Zeit), evokes Baldwin's poetic legacy in his foreword to the new edition of "Kein Name bleibt ihm weit und breit (dtv // Engl. by Miriam Mandelkow, 2024). Together with Benito Bause, who will read selected passages, they will celebrate the 'son of a preacher man' and the power of his literature.

Cooperation between the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München and Literaturhaus München as part of the series "Understanding Our Time".