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About Mo
Mo is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress and tv presenter, and now also writer, 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 book "Mo und die Arier" is published by FISCHER Verlag in Germany. Mo describes how she was able to confront Rassists and Ku Klux Klan and how she got rid of fear. In each chapter the book describes another meeting of Mo with a Rassist.
Her 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.
Mo is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress and tv presenter, and now also writer, 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 book "Mo und die Arier" is published by FISCHER Verlag in Germany. Mo describes how she was able to confront Rassists and Ku Klux Klan and how she got rid of fear. In each chapter the book describes another meeting of Mo with a Rassist.
Her 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.
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BBC Interview with Mo about her new documentary "The ARYANS"
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Mo Asumang im TV
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19.02.2016 22.00 Uhr
25.02.2016 09.05 Uhr 04.03.2016 18.30 Uhr |
NDR und BRTV
ZDF RBB |
3nach9
Volle Kanne ZIBB |
Awards for THE ARYANS
nominated for Adolf GRIMME Award, 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)
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.
In her debut feature "Roots Germania" (documentary 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", was nominated for the price of the ecumenical Jury at Achtung Berlin-new berlin film 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. 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.
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)
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.
In her debut feature "Roots Germania" (documentary 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", was nominated for the price of the ecumenical Jury at Achtung Berlin-new berlin film 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. 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.
PORTRAIT about Mo Asumang
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Extras
Art ProjectsArtist of "Lovepangs" by Christoph Schlingensief (Schauspiel Frankfurt) 2003
Artist of "Lovepangs" by Christoph Schlingensief (Schaubühne, Berlin) 2001 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" Mo is the Ambassador for "Netzwerk für Courage" Mo Asumang is mentor for "Schule ohne Rassismus / Schule mit Courage" since 29.09.2006 for Gymnasium "Alexander S. Puschkin", in Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg |
LaudatorBerliner Frauenpreis (Berlin Womens Award) 2012
Berliner Umweltpreis (Berlin Environmental Award) 2010 Onlinestar (Munich) 2003 Musician
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) |
