My Black Skin: Life journeys
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Everyone has a drive and a desire to achieve something in life. There is a strength in all of us that says yes, is forward-looking and sees change as an opportunity. In order for us to lead a fulfilled and authentic life, it is sometimes necessary to get out of our comfort zone and seize opportunities and possibilities or even create them ourselves. The text/image book My Black Skin: Life Journeys tells the “life journeys” of 22 Black Germans. Their success stories are intended to give other people of all backgrounds and religions the courage and confidence to achieve their professional and personal goals. Even if life is often not easy, it always offers us new opportunities. We just have to see them, accept them, work on them and change society’s narrative through our constant efforts. All the protagonists in this book have already made a major contribution to the development of our society. My Black Skin: Life Journeys aims to confront racism with positive examples and bring many very different life journeys into the public eye – as proof of what is possible for us humans.
Susanne Dorn completed a PR traineeship after studying business administration. The Hamburg native then worked for several years as a local reporter at the Hamburger Abendblatt and as an online editor at the Milchstraße publishing group. She is now working in PR again and is responsible for the website, exhibitions and publications of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft selbstständiger Migranten e. V. (ASM). Susanne Dorn is the author of the first volume “My Black Skin – Schwarz. Successful. German”, which Dayan Kodua published in 2014. “I have great respect for the lifetime achievements of the people I portray. Working on the two volumes has enriched me, and I am grateful for the openness with which my interview partners approached me.”
Britta Schmeis, born and raised in Hilden near Düsseldorf in 1972, studied American Studies and Business Administration in Hamburg. She then completed a traineeship at the German Press Agency. Since then, she has worked as a freelance journalist and author specializing in film, literature and society for Die Welt/Welt am Sonntag, Spiegel online and epd Film, among others. She wants to give a voice to people who are otherwise hardly heard and tell of lives that are completely alien to many, in order to open our eyes to the diversity of our world. Britta Schmeis has a daughter and lives with her family in Hamburg.
After studying Modern German Literature and Sociology and completing internships at Lübecker Nachrichten and Hamburger Morgenpost, Michaela Ludwig worked as an editor for a Hamburg-based television production company. Since a volunteer stay in Uganda, the native of Schleswig-Holstein has been writing for newspapers, magazines and non-governmental organizations. As a partner at agenda fotografen journalisten, she researched reports and features in Hamburg and around the world. Today, she mainly works in PR and writes about topics from the world of work and education. She is enthusiastic about meeting a wide variety of people and immersing herself in their lives. She wants to give them the opportunity to tell their stories and present their view of the world.
Moira Monney, born and raised in Gütersloh in 1982, is the daughter of a black father and a white mother. After studying Applied Languages with Business and Law in Paris, France, she moved to England, where she worked first as a marketing executive and then as a key account manager in the food industry. She has been working as a freelance translator and copywriter since 2007. Her company NEM Content Marketing supports companies in the nutrition/nutritional supplements (NEM) sector. In 2019, Moira Monney initiated the online conference Financial Success Summit for Translators and has been offering training and coaching for fellow translators ever since. “I am happy when I can help other Black people to become more visible and I am honored to be involved in this great project.”
Born in Bremen in 1966, Katja Ernst spent a year in Oxford, England, before training as a publishing saleswoman and studying German and history in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. She then worked for various book publishers and literary agencies. Her employers included the Econ publishing group, the Liepman agency in Zurich and the Rowohlt and Delius Klasing publishing houses. Today she works as a freelance editor and translator in Hamburg.