Steck mal in meiner Haut

Racist ideas are still deeply embedded in our society, right from childhood - and change can only come about by actively addressing issues such as colonialism, everyday racism and structural discrimination.

In their mindful and anti-racist educational picture book, KiKa presenter Pia Amofa-Antwi and journalist Saskia Hödl discuss how to deal with racism and explain the origins of racist thinking and how children can deal with and fight against it today in a child-friendly way. In conversation with the children, the authors give hope for a world in which people are no longer discriminated against because of the color of their skin.

For children aged 7 and over.

Saskia Hödl, born in Vienna in 1985, is a journalist and author. She studied journalism and media management in Vienna before joining taz in Berlin in 2013. There she first worked as a trainee, then as an editor. She was also Berlin correspondent for the Wiener Zeitung before taking over as head of the society section "taz zwei & Medien" at the beginning of 2019. She has been working as a freelance journalist since summer 2022 and lives in Vienna. She writes about politics, society, culture and media. Her column "Kinderspiel" appears in the taz every two weeks. In April 2022, she co-authored the children's non-fiction book "Steck mal in meiner Haut" about anti-racism and empowerment, published by EMF Verlag.

Pia Amofa-Antwi was born and raised in Munich in 1995. After graduating from secondary school, she worked for several years as a trained health and nursing assistant in the emergency room until she began training as an actress. Today she works as a voice actress and has been imparting knowledge for children on TV since 2020 as a KiKa presenter of the programs "Pia und die wilden Tiere" and "Pia und die wilde Natur", among others.

The reading is funded by the 360°-Fonds für Kulturen der neuen Stadtgesellschaft.