What is supposedly one’s own and what is supposedly foreign are once again controversial at the moment. The sometimes relentless debates about identity politics and post-colonialism, inclusion and diversity bear witness to this. Beyond their particular temptations and pitfalls, these woken discourses also boil down to the question of how foreign we want to be to ourselves and how close we want to be to others.
About the person
Ijoma Mangold, born in 1971, is a literary critic and author. He has written for the Berliner Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung, was head of literature at DIE ZEIT and is now its cultural policy correspondent. He is a member of the quartet of critics on the program “lesenswert” (SWR) and has published “Das deutsche Krokodil. Meine Geschichte” (2017), “Der innere Stammtisch. Ein politisches Tagebuch” (2020) and “Die orange Pille. Why Bitcoin is far more than just a new money” (2023).
