Peggy Piesche


Peggy Piesche is a German literary and cultural scientist, works in adult education and works as a consultant for diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality in the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Peggy Piesche is one of the most famous voices of Black women in Germany. Her identities also include lesbian.

Life

Education

Peggy Piesche was born in Arnstadt in what was West Germany in 1968. She studied in both East and West Germany, as well as going abroad to study in Russia.

Teaching career

Piesche has held positions at the University of Utrecht, Vassar College, and Hamilton College. She currently is a lecturer at the Gunda Werner Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Research and published works

Piesche transitioned to research at University of Bayreuth. Her work there continued until 2016.
She co-edited a critical study of whiteness in Germany called Mythen, Masken und Subjekte in 2005, with a revision in 2009. She additionally brought together pieces on Audre Lorde in the 2012 anthology Euer Schweigen schützt Euch nicht. Audre Lorde und die Schwarze Frauenbewegung in Deutschland.

Political commitment

Since 1990, Piesche has played a role in the feminism movement in Germany.
Piesche is on the board of two organizations that are connected to her studies and her political activism: