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Alice Hasters
A headshot of Hasters speaking at a conference on June 9, 2022
Hasters in 2022
Born
Alice Haruko Hasters

(1989-06-10) June 10, 1989 (age 34)
Cologne, Germany
Occupations
Awards
  • Bert-Donnepp-Preis (2023)
  • Culture Journalist of the Year (2020)

Alice Haruko Hasters (born June 10, 1989) is a German journalist, author, and podcaster.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Born in 1989 in Cologne, Germany, Hasters is the youngest of three daughters born to her Black American mother and her white German father.[2] Alice Hasters spent most of her childhood and youth in the Nippes district of Cologne. The parents, an artist couple,[3] raised their three children according to the Buddhist faith. In eleventh grade, Alice Hasters did a year abroad at her uncle's in North Philadelphia at Central High School.[4]

After graduating from high school, she first studied at the Cologne Sports University and later at the German School of Journalism in Munich.[5][6]

Career[edit]

Referring to herself as a Black person (Schwarze in German), Hasters writes and publishes in particular about Afro-German identity, racism, feminism and intersectionality, including in her 2019 autobiographical debut book What white people don't want to hear about racism, but should know anyway (Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen, aber wissen sollten).[7] In June 2020, the book reached number 3 in the Spiegel's bestseller list for paperback non-fiction books.[8][9][10] The book also reached number 5 in the Spiegel's annual bestseller list of the year's paperback non-fiction books.[11]

After graduating college, Hasters has worked among others for the national TV news service Tagesschau and Germany's national broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb).[12] From January to March 2023 she is a Fellow of the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, working on a project about dance and racialization that explores "dance as a resistance practice against white supremacist systems".[13]

Hasters has been producing and publishing the Feuer & Brot (Fire & Bread) podcast with her friend and colleague Maximiliane Häcke since 2016.[14] From 2020 to 2022, she has also moderated the podcast Einhundert – Stories with Alice Hasters, broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Nova.[15][16]

Hasters has been vocal about the erasure and tokenization of Black Germans in mainstream German media and culture. In her work, she advocates for greater representation and inclusion of Black voices and perspectives in all areas of society.[17]

Alice Hasters at a book launch at the cultural centre Saalbau Witten in Witten, Germany (2020)

Hasters was named Culture Journalist of the Year 2020 by German journal medium magazin,[18] and in 2023, she was awarded the Bert-Donnepp-Preis,[19] a prestigious German media award dedicated to journalists who "engage critically with the social impact of media".[20]

Selected works[edit]

Books

  • 2019: Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen, aber wissen sollten. (What white people don't want to hear about racism, but should know anyway) Carl Hanser Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-446-26425-0.
  • 2021: Who's Black? In: Schwarz wird großgeschrieben. &Töchter, München, ISBN 978-3-948819026.

Audiobooks

  • 2020: Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen, aber wissen sollten (What white people don't want to hear about racism, but should know anyway) (audiobook, read by Alice Hasters), tacheles!/ROOF Music, ISBN 978-3864846731
  • 2021: Philipp Steffan: Sag was! Radikal höflich gegen Rechtspopulismus argumentieren (Say something! Radical politeness in arguing against right-wing populism) (together with Maximiliane Häcke), Oetinger Audio/Audible, ISBN 978-3-8373-9004-9

Awards[edit]

  • 2023: Bert-Donnepp-Preis[21]
  • 2020: Culture Journalist of the Year (medium magazin).[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alles gesagt? – Alice Hasters, was sollten weiße Menschen über Rassismus wissen?". Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  2. ^ "Unsere Frau der Woche: Alice Hasters". frauenseiten.bremen.de. July 8, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  3. ^ Lara Sielmann (2014). Das Desinteresse der anderen und die Wut in ihr. Der Tagesspiegel Online. ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  4. ^ Alice Hasters: Fotoalbum. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 152, 4/5 July 2020, P. 52.
  5. ^ "Rosellas im Portrait: Alice Hasters". rosa-mag.de. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  6. ^ Lara Sielmann (2014). Das Desinteresse der anderen und die Wut in ihr. Der Tagesspiegel Online. ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  7. ^ Hans Dieter Heimendahl (December 12, 2019). "Literarischer Adventskalender (12) Sachbuch: "Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen"". deutschlandfunkkultur.de. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  8. ^ "Die aktuellen SPIEGEL-Bestsellerlisten". Markus Fortmann. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  9. ^ "Sachbuch Paperback – DER SPIEGEL – Kultur". Der Spiegel. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  10. ^ "SPIEGEL Bestseller Paperback Sachbuch". Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  11. ^ "Jahresbestseller 2020" (in German). Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  12. ^ "Biographie Alice Hasters". literaturpflaster.com. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  13. ^ "VATMH. Fellow Details. Alice Hasters". Thomas-Mann-Haus. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  14. ^ "Feuer & Brot – Podcast von Maxi & Alice. Monatliches Freundinnengespräch zwischen Politik & Popkultur". feuerundbrot.de. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  15. ^ "Autorin Alice Hasters moderiert künftig Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova". radioszene.de. September 5, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  16. ^ "Einhundert – Storys mit Alice Hasters" (in German). deutschlandfunknova.de. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  17. ^ "Alice Hasters: "Black Germans between Erasure and Tokenism"". UCLA ELTS. March 7, 2023. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  18. ^ "medium magazin: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim ist Journalistin des Jahres 2020". kress.de. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  19. ^ "Bert-Donnepp-Preis 2023: Auszeichnung für Tilmann P. Gangloff". aachener-zeitung.de. January 25, 2023. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  20. ^ "Kulturpreise". ARCult Media. January 25, 2023. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  21. ^ "Bert-Donnepp-Preis 2023: Auszeichnung für Tilmann P. Gangloff". aachener-zeitung.de. January 25, 2023. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  22. ^ "medium magazin: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim ist Journalistin des Jahres 2020". kress.de. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
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