Ijeoma mangold biography of albert

Tuesday 8 March , ampm (GMT)

A hybrid event: In person (The Diamond, Cripps Court, Selwyn College) & online

Moderation: Dr Tara T. Windsor (Schröder Research Associate, Cambridge)

Ijoma Mangold is one of Germany’s leading literary critics whose best-selling literary memoir Das Deutsche Krokodil (Rowohlt, ) appeared in English translation in late (transl.

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, DAS EDITIONS, Digitalback Books) and was awarded the English PEN Award.

In The German Crocodile, Ijoma remembers his childhood, his teenage years and his early adulthood in this compelling coming-of-age memoir of growing up different in s Heidelberg, in the USA as the German Wall fell, and as a young adult in the new Germany.

His own story is inextricably linked with that of his mother, a German from the eastern province of Silesia, forced to escape as a refugee in the expulsions from , and to start afresh in utter poverty in West Germany. His Nigerian father came to Germany to tra