English (for German version see below). There are sentences, in conversation with refugees and migrants, which one would like to consider twice: „Our war in Afghanistan is more intense than the war in Syria“, is such a sentence. I hear it from young Afghans I have to deal with. One is tempted to deny the…
Die Zahl der Zivilisten, die aus Mosul vor dem IS fliehen wächst. Bis zu 3.000 pro Tag zuletzt, die in Lagern bei Erbil und in Kirkuk Aufnahme suchen, nach irakischen Angaben. Das bedeutet: eine kleine Stadt pro Tag. Dazu kommen die vielen Schwerverletzten, die einige der Krankenhäuser kaum noch aufnehmen können. Wenn dies so weitergehe,…
The exhibition will show part of my photographic work from Diyarbakir and the conflict in war torn south-east Anatolia. It is a joint cooperatin together with Reporters without Borders. The exhibition is part of the European Month of Photography in Berlin, whose jury I would like to thank for inviting me to EMOP. Open at…
Together with Reporters without Borders, Journalists Network and myself have initiated a public debate on the State of Emergency in Turkey and its aftermath, and as we hear that the State of Emergency in being prolongued for another three month. Date: october 4th in Berlin, at the Berlin Volksbühne/Grüner Salon, 7 pm. https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/meldung/ausnahmezustand-quo-vadis-tuerkei/ The debate…
Filming Peace and War Comparing conflict and conflict resolution: a German-Turkish film workshop 17./18 May 2016 ODTÜ GİSAM / Eğitim Fak. Yanı Ankara Abstract ‚Filming Peace and War in Cinema‘ is a common initiative I have undertaken together with independent Turkish Media platform p24 and the Open Society Institute, in order to defend independent media…
Amman’s acclaimed Jadal Cultural Centre in Jordan celebrates the Arabic Premiere of The World’s smallest Army. The screening is followed by a Q&A: www.facebook.com/jadal.amman/
The World’s Smallest Army, my new documentary feature film, takes a lookat problems refugees and migrants face in today’s Germany. Check the trailer here
This year’s 2nd annual Kabul Students Theater Festival, held from Nov. 8th-11th 2015, for which I had launched a fundraising call in cooperation with the University of Kabul, turned out to be a great success. The team of the Fine Arts Faculty did a great job. Eleven plays were on stage this year, for which…
Kolga International Photo Festival in Tiflis/Georgia has awarded two of my works from the Finding Afghanistan series for ‚Best shots of the year 2015‘. My thanks to the hosts.
Find my Afghanistan Blog here. I’ve been compiling the blog in the last years to point to and raise awareness for independent voices, views and concerns of Afghans in the political, cultural and intellectual debate on Afghanistan, something missing very often in Western news presentations, publications or official statements from the various sides. The blog…
This fundrasing initiative has been started by myself in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine Arts at Kabul University for the newly established Afghan Student Theater Festival. After the recent rise in terrorist violence in Afghanistan, artist and culture events of practically any kind are threatened. HELP KABUL’S STUDENT’S THEATER FESTIVAL – WHAT IS AT…
The Berlin Atelier für Fotografie will show my exhibition Finding Afghanistan from September 3rd – 16. October 16th. The exhibition is funded by Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich and has previously been shown in the exhibition spaces of Deutschlandfunk, Germany’s National Radio Broadcaster, for whom I have been an correspondent in the Afghan conflict from 2001 onwards. See…