Mo Asumang

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Mo Asumang (* 13. June 1963 as Monika Yaa akoma Asumang in Kassel ) is a German film director , TV host , best-selling - author , actress , singer , voice actor , artist and film producer .

Life

The daughter of a German and a Ghanaian was raised by her maternal grandmother. After her death, she learned that she had worked as a typist for the SS during the Nazi era .

She did her A -levels at the Goethe-Gymnasium Kassel . From 1985 to 1990 she studied visual communication at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Kassel and from 1992 to 1994 classical singing at the University of the Arts Berlin . Since 1994 she has been working as a speaker, since 1996 as a presenter and actress. In 2004 she founded MA Motion Filmproduktion GmbH and directs documentary films . With her films, she gives lectures on the subject of racism and xenophobia in schools and universities (including Yale University ) around the world . With decades of anti-racism public relations work, she is one of the pioneers of the global Black Lives Matter movement.

From 1997 to 2000 Asumang hosted the TV show Liebe Sünde on ProSieben . She dubbed the role of Ensign Seska in the American television series Star Trek: Voyager . In Roman Polański's film The Ghostwriter (2010), she played the role of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice .

Mo Asumang received the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin in 2016 and the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 2019 .

Mo Asumang lives in Berlin .

Movies

Asumang made her directorial debut in 2007 with the documentary Roots Germania , which was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2008. The film is primarily her search for identity . The trigger was the song " Notes of Hate" by the neo-Nazi band White Aryan Rebels , in which she and Rita Süssmuth , Michel Friedman , Alfred Biolek , Stefan Heym and Hella, among others , are wished for death. In order to deal with Germanic and racial ideology, Asumang traveled across Germany and to Africa, where she spoke to her mother and father for the first time about belonging. The film is a very personal search for belonging and home .

For the documentary Road to Rainbow - Welcome to South Africa , published in 2010, Asumang traveled to the townships of Cape Town and Johannesburg with the African comedian Kagiso Lediga and portrayed the 12-year-old HIV-infected Inganathi who wants to become a footballer.

Mo Asumang at the gala for the Hessian Film and Cinema Prize 2012 in Frankfurt

In the documentary Die Arier (2014) Asumang confronted racists with seemingly innocent questions: “What do they actually have against black people, what they would have done to them. The man under the mask is visibly embarrassed, mumbles something about the fact that he has nothing against her personally. It's moments like this that are so self-exposing. And that make up this documentary, ”said Peter Zander in his review in the Berliner Morgenpost . In her shooting report in ARTE magazine , Asumang described why she continued to work without escort, but with camera women.

book

In their 2016 book Mo and the Aryans. Among racists and neo-Nazis alone , Mo Asumang describes what racism feels like on your own skin. She meets racists , neo-Nazis , Pegida followers, members of the Ku Klux Klan and even chats on Nazi dating platforms. Even if Asumang's approach seems naive at first, her impartiality enables her to have insightful encounters with racists of all stripes. Their goal is to break the cycle of anger, hatred and violence. The book reached number 18 of the mirror - bestseller list .

In 2018 Mo Asumang received the Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize for upright literature . Asumang qualified for the literary prize through literacy , social commitment as well as courage and moral courage .

Positions

Asumang is the sponsor of the Alexander S. Puschkin grammar school in Hennigsdorf , which is a member of the school network School without Racism - School with Courage . In an interview in October 2013, Asumang said: “I'm always of the opinion that Germany should look in the mirror from time to time because a society is of course always changing. Society does not stay as it is, otherwise a country would not even come into being. ”She is committed to the Cura victims' fund , which financially supports victims of right-wing extremist violence.

In 2014 Mo Asumang was appointed, along with other celebrities, to be a volunteer “Ambassador against Racism” for the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency .

Filmography (selection)

Director

actress

Publications

  • Mo and the Aryans: Alone among racists and neo-Nazis. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016. ISBN 978-3-596-03443-7

Exhibitions

TV journalist (selection)

Nominations

Awards

Web links

Commons : Mo Asumang  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ulrike Pflüger-Scherb: Another view of South Africa. In: hna.de . June 17, 2010, accessed December 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Antonie Rietzschel : Interview with filmmaker Mo Asumang - “Fortunately, you didn't unpack your weapons” . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 29, 2014, accessed December 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ulrike Pflüger-Scherb: Kassel's famous daughters and sons. Kassel 2009, p. 11 f.
  4. ↑ Mo Asumang. In: kulturserver.de. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Announcement of December 1, 2019 on the website of the Federal President
  6. ^ Holger Kulick: Roots Germania. A women's debut film about right-wing extremist ideology and mysticism , interview with Mo Asumang, Federal Agency for Civic Education , October 11, 2007
  7. ↑ Roots Germania: Idiosyncratic, poignant search for traces , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , November 27, 2009
  8. ↑ The Aryan arte. In: programm.ard.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  9. ^ DeWayne Wickham: Exposing haunting image of hatred , USA Today , April 15, 2014
  10. ↑ Peter Zander: Mo Asumang seeks contact with racists and neo-Nazis , Berliner Morgenpost , May 5, 2014:
  11. ↑ The true Aryans , shooting report Mo Asumang for ARTE magazine , April 2014
  12. ↑ Lubika Brechtel: Book tip: "Mo and the Aryans" by Mo Asumang. In: 3sat.de . March 2016, archived from the original on April 26, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Eren Güvercin: Germany is recreating itself. In: erenguevercin.wordpress.com. November 13, 2010, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Call for solidarity with the victims of right-wing extremist violence! ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cura victims' fund , December 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opferfonds-cura.de
  15. ↑ Mo Asumang and the search for the Aryans. In: vorwaerts.de . December 12, 2014, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Manfred Götzke: Mo Asumang - With communication against right-wing hatred. In: deutschlandfunk.de. May 12, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Asumang, Mon.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asumang,
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter, film director, bestselling author, actress, singer, voice actress, artist and producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Hessen , Federal Republic of Germany