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Published 25.02.2016
Readings in 2020
FISCHER Verlag
(contact: Kerstin.seydler@fischerverlage.de )
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Filmscreening & Reading
(with Student Version 52 or 92 min.) & discussion
Contact: schultour@die-arier.com or lectures@mo-asumang.com
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About Mo
Mo is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress and tv presenter, well known in Germany due to her brave documentary movies and TV moderation. Recently she has gained International exposure being featured in Roman Polanski`s movie "The Ghostwriter" playing Condoleezza Rice, she was featured in an article by "USA TODAY" which linked President Obama and Mo Asumang as 'kindred souls', and being compared in the media to filmmaker Michael Moore, and through her work leading workshops and lectures about racism and social integration in Universities and Schools in Germany, african Countries, across USA and Europe.
Since the beginning of her career as a TV moderator in Germany in 1996, she has became a well known cultural figure and has taken on a successful career as both producer, writer, actress, and film director as well as moderator. In recent years Mo has dedicated her many talents and her energy to creative activism in the field of racism.
Her new documentary THE ARYANS (2014) is a personal journey into the madness of racism
during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest. In The ARYANS Mo questions the completely wrong interpretation of "Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race.
as a director Mo won
German Directors Award "Metropolis" 2015
and "Magnolia Award" (for Best Director) at Shanghai TVFilm Festival, China
nominated two times for Grimme Prize, nominated for PRIX EUROPA etc.
NEWS: Mo was awarded the Order of Merit from the State of Berlin (01.10.2016)
In her documentary "Road to Rainbow" (directed by Mo Asumang, 2010), Mo is searching for the dream the South Africans had about equality that was to rise after the Apartheid Era, investigating the social reality of South Africa 16 years later.
Her previous movie "Roots Germania" (directed and produced by Mo Asumang, 2007) Mo was able to solve a trauma caused by racism; She undertakes a journey to discover her roots and her identity, facing her African father in Ghana, her White German Mother in Germany, and Jürgen Rieger, the head of the neonaziparty NPD. The catalyst of this journey, a threat over her life received by the NeoNazi Band "White Aryan Rebels", becomes a poignant tool for self discovery and a sharp reflection to matters of finding identity in Germans society of today.
"Roots Germania" was nominated for Germany's most popular TV Prize,the "Grimme Award" and within one year shown 15 times on TV, receiving 60 articles in it's first week of run, and shown in several film festivals in Germany and African Countries.
Mo's seeking for social justice is not by chance. At the age of 5 weeks Mo was sent to an orphanage, and then raised by foster parents and her white grandmother who was with the Nazi-SS. From this early period and on, the color of her skin has impacted her and has made the issue of racism deeply entrenched into her live. In 2007 Mo Asumang has been selected as one of the leading figures and activists in Germany for issues of social integration and Intercultural affairs.
Mo is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress and tv presenter, well known in Germany due to her brave documentary movies and TV moderation. Recently she has gained International exposure being featured in Roman Polanski`s movie "The Ghostwriter" playing Condoleezza Rice, she was featured in an article by "USA TODAY" which linked President Obama and Mo Asumang as 'kindred souls', and being compared in the media to filmmaker Michael Moore, and through her work leading workshops and lectures about racism and social integration in Universities and Schools in Germany, african Countries, across USA and Europe.
Since the beginning of her career as a TV moderator in Germany in 1996, she has became a well known cultural figure and has taken on a successful career as both producer, writer, actress, and film director as well as moderator. In recent years Mo has dedicated her many talents and her energy to creative activism in the field of racism.
Her new documentary THE ARYANS (2014) is a personal journey into the madness of racism
during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest. In The ARYANS Mo questions the completely wrong interpretation of "Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race.
as a director Mo won
German Directors Award "Metropolis" 2015
and "Magnolia Award" (for Best Director) at Shanghai TVFilm Festival, China
nominated two times for Grimme Prize, nominated for PRIX EUROPA etc.
NEWS: Mo was awarded the Order of Merit from the State of Berlin (01.10.2016)
In her documentary "Road to Rainbow" (directed by Mo Asumang, 2010), Mo is searching for the dream the South Africans had about equality that was to rise after the Apartheid Era, investigating the social reality of South Africa 16 years later.
Her previous movie "Roots Germania" (directed and produced by Mo Asumang, 2007) Mo was able to solve a trauma caused by racism; She undertakes a journey to discover her roots and her identity, facing her African father in Ghana, her White German Mother in Germany, and Jürgen Rieger, the head of the neonaziparty NPD. The catalyst of this journey, a threat over her life received by the NeoNazi Band "White Aryan Rebels", becomes a poignant tool for self discovery and a sharp reflection to matters of finding identity in Germans society of today.
"Roots Germania" was nominated for Germany's most popular TV Prize,the "Grimme Award" and within one year shown 15 times on TV, receiving 60 articles in it's first week of run, and shown in several film festivals in Germany and African Countries.
Mo's seeking for social justice is not by chance. At the age of 5 weeks Mo was sent to an orphanage, and then raised by foster parents and her white grandmother who was with the Nazi-SS. From this early period and on, the color of her skin has impacted her and has made the issue of racism deeply entrenched into her live. In 2007 Mo Asumang has been selected as one of the leading figures and activists in Germany for issues of social integration and Intercultural affairs.
BBC Interview (click) with Mo about her new documentary "The ARYANS full KuKlux Klan Interview on YOUTUBE (click)
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Awards
Federal Cross of Merit awarded by Germanys Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 2019
Alfred- Müller- Felsenburg- Award for upstanding literature 2018
Order of Merit of Berlin, Germany 2016
Adolf GRIMME Award, Nomination 2015
nominated for Interrnational „Gold Panda“ Awards, China, Nov. 2014
German Directors Award "Metropolis", 2014 Germany
PRIX Europa Nomination 2014
The ARYANS, Mo Asumang awarded the Magnolia Award for Best Director, Shanghai TVFilm Festival, China
World Cinema Best Documentary (April 6th 2014), Phoenix Filmfestival, USA
World Cinema Audience Award (April 6th 2014), Phoenix Filmfestival, USA
The ARYANS, Mo Asumang awarded the Diversity Award,
nominated for the "Prize of the ecumenical Jury" at achtung BERLIN Filmfestival (April 2014)
Öngören Prize for Democracy and Human Rights , Filmfestival Turkey/Germany (2014)
Adler Award - Best Black Media Entertainer 2010
Adolf GRIMME Award, Nomination 2008
Prize of the ecumenical Jury, Nomionation, berlin film award 2008
Adler Award - Best Black Media Entertainer 2008
PORTRAIT about Mo Asumang
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Mo and Afrogospel Choir "Akwaba" at NDR TV Show "DAS!" (July 16th 2011)
singing the German national Anthem as a Gospelversion (Komposition aus Roots Germania)
Amazon download of the German national Anthem (Gospelversion)
Extras
Art Projects
Artist of "Lovepangs" by Christoph Schlingensief (Schauspiel Frankfurt) 2003
Artist of "Lovepangs" by Christoph Schlingensief(Schaubühne, Berlin) 2001
Artist of "Lovepangs" by Christoph Schlingensief(Schaubühne, Berlin) 2001
Laudator
German Directors Award Metropolis (2018)
First Steps Award (2018)
Berliner Frauenpreis (Berlin Womens Award)
Berliner Umweltpreis (Berlin Environmental Award)
Onlinestar (Munich)
First Steps Award (2018)
Berliner Frauenpreis (Berlin Womens Award)
Berliner Umweltpreis (Berlin Environmental Award)
Onlinestar (Munich)
Member / Mentor / Ambassador
Mo Asumang is the Ambassador for the "Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, Germany"
Mo Asumang is Member of the "Berliner Ratschlag für Demokratie" (click to watch)
Mo is the Ambassador for "Netzwerk für Courage" (click to watch)
Mo Asumang is mentor for "Schule ohne Rassismus / Schule mit Courage"
since 29.09.2006 for Gymnasium "Alexander S. Puschkin", in Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg
Mo Asumang is the Ambassador for the "Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, Germany"
Mo Asumang is Member of the "Berliner Ratschlag für Demokratie" (click to watch)
Mo is the Ambassador for "Netzwerk für Courage" (click to watch)
Mo Asumang is mentor for "Schule ohne Rassismus / Schule mit Courage"
since 29.09.2006 for Gymnasium "Alexander S. Puschkin", in Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg
