Mirrianne Mahn: ISSA

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Full of love and strength, Mirrianne Mahn tells the story of a young Black woman whose unconditional will to love and live helps her own family history to become visible.

Moderation: Noemie Polewa Kühlmorgen & Estella Adubea Boateng

"I know their stories so well that sometimes I think I've experienced them myself."

Issa doesn't actually want to go on this trip. Pregnant, she is on a plane to Douala, driven by her mother, who fears for her daughter's life as she is about to give birth. In Cameroon, the country of her childhood, she is supposed to follow the healing path of rituals under the eagle eyes of her grandmothers. But it's not that easy when you're too black in Frankfurt and too German in Buea. For Issa, the visit becomes a confrontation with her own family history and the certainty that both trauma and the unconditional will to love and live are hereditary.

Mirrianne Mahn artfully interweaves the fates of five women whose lives are more than a century apart and yet are connected by the lines of colonial exploitation and the pursuit of self-determination. An empowering, powerful and haunting debut.

"It is impressive how lovingly and sensitively Mirrianne Mahn draws her characters." Daniela Dröscher

An event of the 0+1 Festival for Diversity + Complexity | October 04 - 26,2024

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