Philipp Khabo Koepsell

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Philipp Khabo Koepsell (* 1980 in Marburg ) is a German spoken word performer , dramaturge and editor. He works with various artistic formats, from poetry, drama, performance and multimedia installation, and combines academic and artistic content.

Philipp Khabo Koepsell studied English and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . His spoken word performances deal with Afrofuturism, identity negotiations and dealing with experiences of racism as a dark-skinned person in Germany. He worked as a dramaturge, including for the Berlin theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße .

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The Afro-German Philipp Khabo Koepsell became known through his book "The James Button Files: Afro-German Word and Arbitration", a bilingual collection of poetry and rap texts, in which he addresses everyday experiences of racism and the social dealings with Germany's colonial history . He presents his texts in Germany and in English-speaking countries at literary festivals and academic conferences and congresses. In 2011 he toured South Africa and performed at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, the Witwatersrand University , the Stellenbosch University and the German School in Cape Town . Between 2012 and 2014 he participated several times in the Festival of African and African-Diasoprian Literatures of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies . As a cultural worker and activist, he distinguished himself through his open criticism of Brett Bailey's installation Exhibition B and accused Bailey of reproducing racist clichés.

Together with Asoka Esuruoso, he published the English-language anthology "Arriving in the Future: Stories of Home and Exile", in which poetry and short stories are presented by 26 Afro-German authors who view Germany as the permanent or temporary center of life. The publication of the book “Arriving in the Future” was accompanied by the series of events of the same name at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse theater in Berlin .

Philipp Khabo Koepsell was the dramaturge for various plays and performances, including “Performing Back” by Simone Dede Ayivi and “Jung, toxic und Schwarz” by Amina Eisner and Thandi Sebe. He was a dramaturge assistant for Idil Üner's play "Süpermänner". Philipp Khabo Koepsell wrote for the Berlin theater collective “meet MIMOSA”, among others.

In spring 2015 he curated the network meeting Erste Indaba Schwarzer Kulturschaffender in Germany in Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin. The publication of the same name, a documentation of the network meeting, was published in September 2015.

In 2015 he published the book "The Afropean Contemporary: Literature and Society Magazine", an anthology that he describes as an Afropean contemporary literary magazine.

As part of the exhibition FAVT - Future Africa Visions in Time at the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, in November 2015, together with the English and African scholar Susan Arndt and the artist Paul D. Miller , he showed the installation Beyond Wagner's Futures , which deals with Richard Wagner's influence on the German colonial history busy.

Publications

Print publications

Sound carrier

  • 2014: Word of Mouth , UPC: 3610155694954
  • 2013: Lilac and Rapeseed (with the band New Night Babies), UPC: 888174548494
  • 2009: Of Brickwalls and Breezeways (with the band New Night Babies), UPC: 88450223785

Contributions to anthologies

  • Afrofictional in [ter] ventions: Revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African (-Diasporic) Literatures, Bayreuth 2011 - 2013 , Edition Assemblage, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-942885-67-6 by Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (ed .)
  • The Little Book of Big Visions: How to be an Artist and revolutionize the World , Edition Assemblage, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-942885-31-7 by Sharon Otoo and Sandrine Micossé-Aikins (eds.)
  • How racism speaks out of words: (K) inheriting of colonialism in the knowledge archive of the German language , Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89771-501-1 by Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (eds.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Unrast-Verlag: Books of Criticism. Retrieved December 18, 2015 .
  2. ^ Goethe-Institut-Johannesburg event archive. Retrieved December 22, 2015 .
  3. ^ Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apartheidarchive.org
  4. ↑ Philipp Khabo Köpsell in the German department of the Stellenbosch University. Retrieved December 22, 2015 .
  5. ^ German International School Cape Town. Yearbook 11. Retrieved December 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Shirley Apthorp: Black 'Human Zoo' Fury Greets Berlin Art Show. October 4, 2012, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Sophiensaele. In: www.sophiensaele.com. Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
  8. ↑ meet MIMOSA: Mediathek. In: tremor-art-project.blogspot.de. Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Simone Dede Ayivi: We are Tomorrow. February 18, 2015, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  10. ↑ RBB Stilbruch: Culture tips with Deniz Utlu. (No longer available online.) May 28, 2015, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; Retrieved December 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mediathek.rbb-online.de
  11. ↑ IWALEWAHAUS - FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time. In: www.iwalewa.uni-bayreuth.de. Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Michael Weiser: Iwalewahaus: memories of the future. November 26, 2015, accessed December 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Koepsell, Philipp Khabo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afro-German spoken word performer, dramaturge and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg