Firas Alshater
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| Firas Alshater, 2016 | |
| YouTube channel (comedy) | |
| language | German , Arabic |
| founding | 17th September 2015 |
| channels |
ZUKAR (main channel) Firas Alshater (second channel) |
| Subscribers | over 21,000 (main channel) over 1,700 (second channel) |
| Calls | over 1,300,000 (main channel) over 80,000 (second channel) |
| Videos | 30 videos (main channel) 25 videos (secondary channel) |
| network | OkayFactor GmbH |
Firas Alshater (born March 27, 1991 in Damascus ) is a Syrian actor, freelance journalist, author and YouTuber . He has been running his YouTube channel ZUKAR since September 2015 .
Life
Syria
Firas Alshater grew up in Damascus and studied acting there. In 2011 he was one of the co-organizers of the first demonstrations against the Assad government and for a free Syria.
In order to document the development in Syria, to counter the propaganda of the state television and to educate the people, Alshater got himself a camera. He also helped western journalists get to Syria as unnoticed as possible and supported them in reporting. On the basis of statements and contributions critical of the regime, he was persecuted by the Assad regime, arrested four times and held and tortured for almost nine months. For his own safety, he had to leave Damascus in October 2012, lived briefly in Turkey and then in northern Syria. In Raqqa he was then held prisoner by Islamist groups because he also made their crimes public.
Germany
To finish editing the film Syria Inside by his late friend Tamer Alawan, Alshater finally went to Germany. Together with the German film producer Jan Heilig, he completed work on the film and published it at the end of 2013.
Alshater has lived in Berlin since May 2013; in the same year he received asylum in Germany. Here he worked as a freelance TV journalist for Arab broadcasters and produced his own short films. Together with Heilig, he started the series “ZUKAR-Stückchen” on the YouTube channel ZUKAR in January 2016 , whose first video was Who are these Germans? went viral and was viewed over 2.5 million times on YouTube and Facebook (as of April 2016). Since then, Alshater has been considered "Germany's first refugee Youtuber". Time magazine selected Alshater as one of ten Next Generation Leaders .
As a result, he was seen in many different television programs, including a. in the ARD buffet , the ARD night magazine or Markus Lanz . Thanks to his videos, Alshater was also mentioned in international media, such as Canal + , Al Jazeera or the international formats of Deutsche Welle .
Alshater can also be seen in the “search racism, find truth” campaign. This action was brought into being by the organization “Refugees Welcome” in order to place short clips in front of YouTube videos with right-wing extremist content, in which refugees can refute the prejudices that follow.
Alshater is currently producing more YouTube videos and is working on his autobiography , Ich komm zu Deutschland , which was published by Ullstein Verlag in October 2016 .
Youtube channel
The video series ZUKAR is a joint project of the two filmmakers Firas Alshater from Syria and Jan Heilig from Germany.
The first video went online at the end of January 2016. It was originally intended as a test for a film project that should give refugees their own voice. The creators wanted to see how it would be accepted by the online community. The audience skyrocketed within a few days.
Since then, ZUKAR has been an independent project and is legally represented by Heilig's agency Okayfactor GmbH. In his videos, Alshater goes on a voyage of discovery: Who are the Germans? How do they tick? He describes the experiences from his perspective and comments on current topics. Humor is and will remain his main tool.
Currently 52 ZUKAR videos can be seen on the YouTube channel with a total of around 1.8 million views (as of September 2017).
Awards
- 2016 nomination for the 1Live Krone
Web links
- Firas Alshater in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Firas Alshater's channel on YouTube
- Video: Firas Alshater: "What all refugees want" . Re: publica 2016, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.5446 / 20610 .
- Antoine Jerji: Five years in Germany: What Firas Alshater learned about his new compatriots. Change , March 2018 (interview).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Channel information , accessed on May 3, 2016
- ↑ ZUKAR - YouTube channel
- ^ Syria Inside - The Comedy-Documentary - Part01
- ↑ Report on Tamer Alawam
- ↑ You-Tube-Playlist "ZUKAR-Stückchen"
- ↑ YouTube video "Who are these Germans?"
- ↑ Article about Firas Alshater from Jetzt.de: “Germany's First Refugee Youtuber” , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ^ Article "The Clown Prince of Migrants" from Time magazine, accessed June 9, 2016
- ↑ ARD Buffet interview with Firas Alshater , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ^ Article in the ARD night magazine about Firas Alshater , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ↑ Firas Alshater in the show by Markus Lanz, broadcast on February 18, 2016 , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ↑ Report on Firas Alshater in the “LeTube” program on Canal + , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ↑ Article about Firas Alshater by AJ + , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ↑ Firas Alshater in an interview with DW News , accessed on May 6, 2016
- ^ Article about Firas Alshater from Deutsche Welle - Euromaxx
- ^ Website Search Racism Find Truth
- ^ Welcome to the website of refugees
- ^ Website of the Ullstein Verlag , accessed on April 8, 2017
- ↑ OkayFactor GmbH website
- ↑ Video crown
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alshater, Firas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian actor, freelance journalist, author and YouTuber |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Damascus |