Ngô Thị Bích Loan

Loan Ngo Thi Bich ( Vietnamese Ngô Thị Bích Loan ; * 1977 in Sài Gòn, today Ho Chi Minh City ) is a Munich innkeeper who fled Vietnam when she was a child and the leading actress in a three-part documentary series Loan - a girl from Vietnam , which in the BR - Television first aired in late 1986. On November 14, 2011, in addition to the original documentary series, another biographical documentary series entitled Loan and the Better Life was broadcast in the series Lebenslinien .

biography

Ngô Thị Bích came to Germany in 1986 at the age of eight or nine without her parents. Their escape story was accompanied by a couple from Munich documentary filmmakers. Originally, her family tried several times to flee war-torn Vietnam together, but these attempts failed. After the family ran out of money for escape attempts, the mother brought the night the girl to the coast, where Ngo Thị Bích with about 50 other people boarded a small fishing boat and a half weeks under life-threatening circumstances at sea spent by the " boat people " at the 23rd March 1986 from the Cap Anamur were found and recorded.

After Ngô Thị Bích had spent several months in a reception camp in Palawan , she was brought to Germany on August 28, 1986, where she was taken in and raised by the neighbors of the documentary couple in Starnberg . Here she last attended high school until 1994 when her birth parents moved from Vietnam to East Frisia and she had to leave her foster family. In the new environment, she isolated herself and had to switch to secondary school. As an adult, she moved back to Bavaria, but for a long time had difficulties re-establishing her original bond.

After Ngô Thị Bích had worked as an employee for several years and had a job alongside her regular work in the restaurant business, she visited her home country for the first time since her escape in 2008, where she wanted to open her own eatery. From November 2009 to July 2017 she ran the Vietnamese restaurant "Rice" in Munich.

Biographical film documentation

• Loan - a girl from Vietnam (Satellit-Film GmbH)
  • Part 1: The Rescue (1986)
  • Part 2: In the refugee camp (1986)
  • Part 3: Recording in Germany (1986)
• Lifelines - Loan and the Better Life (2011; Director: Maike Conway )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Loan - a girl from Vietnam , film dictionary.
2. ^ The taste of your childhood , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 15, 2010.
3. ↑ Loan and the Better Life ( Memento of February 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), BR.
4. ↑ Loan - a girl from Vietnam - Part 1: The rescue  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Loan - a girl from Vietnam - Part 2: In the refugee camp  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Loan - a girl from Vietnam - Part 3: Admission in Germany  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Lifelines - Loan and the Better Life