Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis 2012 - Mo Asumang

Monika 'Mo' Yaa akoma Asumang (born 13 June 1963, Kassel, Germany) 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.

Biography

Asumang was born on 13 June 1963 in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

in Germany to a Ghanaian father and German mother. She studied Visual Communication at the

University of Kassel The University of Kassel (german: link=no, Universität Kassel) is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 prof ...

. Between 1997 and 2000 she presented the television show '' Liebe Sünde'' on German TV. She made her directing debut with the documentary '' Roots Germania'', which was nominated for a

Grimme-Preis The Grimme-Preis ("Grimme Award"; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme. Around the Football World Cup 2010, she made a documentary about South Africa called ''Road to Rainbow - Willkommen in Südafrika''. In 2014 she created the documentary '' Die Arier (The Aryans).'' As one of the first black women on German television, she was targeted by racists. To address racism, she confronted racists in Germany, and travelled to the United States, where she had conversations with

Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...

members. The documentary was also nominated for a Grimme-Preis. In 2016 Asumang wrote a book about her identity search and experiences meeting

racists Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

Neo-Nazis Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and racial supremacy (often white supremacy), attack ...

and

Ku-Klux-Klan The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...

members face to face, titled ''Mo und die Arier: Allein unter Rassisten und Neonazis (Mo and the Aryans: Alone among racists and Neo-Nazis).''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Asumang, Mo 1963 births Living people Film people from Hesse Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin German people of Ghanaian descent