John A. Kantara
John Amoateng Kantara (* 1964 in Bonn ) is a director , author and journalist .
Life
After completing his military service as a medic with the German Navy, John A. Kantara studied political science at the Free University in Berlin from 1986 to 1991 . In his diploma thesis Black Germans - their history and structures of their own organization (1991) he dealt with the beginnings of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e. V. , which he co-founded in 1987. In the same year he founded the magazine afro look together with other Berlin Afro-Germans . In 1992 he completed his Master of Arts in International Journalism at City University in London.
From 1992 to 2000 he was an editor at Die Zeit -TV. Since 2000 he has worked as a freelance journalist and TV writer a. a. active for ZDF , 3sat and Sat.1 . He also writes for various domestic and foreign newspapers. He has also been a professor of journalism at Dekra University Berlin since 2011 .
Prizes and awards
In 2007 he was awarded the PUNKT journalist prize for an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and in 2010 the European journalist prize. In 2012 Kantara received the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and in 2013 the Otto Brenner Prize for Critical Journalism.
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- Being black and German at the same time - from DIE ZEIT No. 18/1998
- And here is my fitness studio - an afternoon with Muhammad Ali from DIE ZEIT No. 42/1999
- Article No Go Germany from ZEIT Online v. May 19, 2006
- Africa has already won - a comment on the 2006 World Cup
- The war was over, Dov Shenkal and his friends had only one goal: retaliation for the mass murder of the Jews. They looked for the guilty party on their own - and killed them. A visit to three men who have no regrets , Die Zeit, December 5, 1997
Film contributions
- Blues in Black and White - Four Black German Lives (1998)
- And we were Germans - On the survival of Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi and Ralph Giordano (1999)
- Born stupid and learned nothing? - Intelligence research between racism and flexible genetic makeup (2014)
- The Great Tax Fraud, The Story in the First of June 29, 2015
- Army without a compass - where is the Bundeswehr marching ZDFzoom from September 26, 2018
Web links
- Kantara's World - Website by John A. Kantara
- John A. Kantara in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Black Filmmakers in Germany (SFD) ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Quotes from the show Sabine Christiansen - The world as a guest of friends? . May 21, 2006 ( Memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kantara, John A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kantara, John Amoateng |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |