Theodor Michael · Autobiography · dtv, 2013 · German; English translation 2017
Theodor Michael traces a life spanning the Weimar Republic, Nazi persecution and forced labor, and postwar Germany. Family separation, work in entertainment, and his later engagement with Black German communities connect personal memory with a wider history.
Why we are reading it
Michael’s autobiography preserves a Black German perspective across generations and political regimes. English-speaking readers can also find Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century, translated by Eve Rosenhaft and published by Liverpool University Press in 2017.
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Book details and edition information
ISBN: 978-3-423-42033-4 (German e-book).
English translation: Black German · ISBN 978-1-78138-311-7.
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