Monika 'Mo' Yaa akoma Asumang (born 13 June 1963, Kassel) is a German presenter, filmmaker, actress and writer. She created the 2014 documentary The Aryans, in which she confronts racists in both Germany and the US.
Mo Asumang | |
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 Mo Asumang in 2012 | |
| Born | Monika Yaa akoma Asumang 13 June, 1963 Kassel, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Presenter, filmmaker, actress and writer |
Biography
editAsumang was born on 13 June 1963 to a Ghanaian father and German mother.[1][2] She studied Visual Communication at the University of Kassel.[2] Between 1997 and 2000 she presented the television show Liebe Sünde on German TV.[3] She made her directing debut with the documentary Roots Germania, which was nominated for a Grimme-Preis in 2008.[2][4][5] Around the Football World Cup 2010, she made a documentary about South Africa called Road to Rainbow - Willkommen in Südafrika.[2]
In 2014, Asumang created the documentary Die Arier (The Aryans).[1] As one of the first black women on German television, she was targeted by racists.[6] To address racism, she confronted racists in Germany, and travelled to the United States, where she had conversations with Ku Klux Klan members.[6][7] The documentary was also nominated for a Grimme-Preis.[8]
In 2016, Asumang wrote a book about her identity search and experiences meeting racists, Neo-Nazis and Ku-Klux-Klan members face to face, titled Mo und die Arier: Allein unter Rassisten und Neonazis (Mo and the Aryans: Alone among racists and Neo-Nazis).[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "Confronting racism face-to-face". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ a b c d "Ein anderer Blick auf Südafrika". Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German). 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ ""Ich bin Globuli für Nazis"". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "Mo Asumang trifft den Klu Klux Klan [sic]". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "Bislang drei Nachnominierungen beim Grimme-Preis 2015" (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ a b "A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "Bi-racial filmmaker confronts neo-nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in new documentary 'Aryans'".
- ^ Gröschl, Michael (25 November 2016). "Mo und die Arier – Buchverlosung" (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ "Warum Mo Asumang den persönlichen Kontakt zu Rassisten sucht: Allein im Schmelztiegel des Rassismus". Kreiszeitung (in German). 29 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-10.