Stepping On Bread

"I'm famous in this country as an immigration activist. I'm active 22 years, and organizations must accept me," says Toker, who regularly appears on German TV and writes political articles for magazines and newspapers, in addition to her prose.

Death threats don't intimidate her, she says. "I'm never careful. I'm always offensive." Toker laughs loudly.

Toker sees herself as a hearalder of 21st-century life; not just in Germany, where right-wing extremism surfaced after reunification, but thoughout the world. Massive migration means new forms of multiculturalism. New ways of thinking. A year ago, for example, Toker proclaimed a Jewish Ukranian immigrant living in the outskirts of Cologne her 'sister.'

"Part of migration is that you go somewhere and create a family by choice," said Toker, who also has a 'brother' in Cologne. "My 'sister' has the same rights as a birth sister. She can curse me, get involved in my kid's education, come to me day and night."