Will be hoping to extend his forty point lead over Germanys Sebastian Vettel at the top of the leaderboard. Youre watching news live from berlin war coming at the top of the hour and dont forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site thats d. W. Dot com thanks for watching. Im not laughing at the germans because sometimes that plays them nothing with them even having things deep into german culture. Will take his grandmother there to you because its all that who know im rachel joining me think everybody of course. We make up oh but we watch as old houses that under the age of five we are the sum of seven percent. Want to shape the continents future to. Be part of enjoying african youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges. The Seventy Seven percent of. Platforms for africa. Sham and. Lens gawky theatre and is the first theres a director in germany with turkish roots she is also one of germanys few female directors for his im talking to her today about post migrant theater on the difficult relationship between turkey and germany. How do you feel about germany honoring turkish president with
a State Banquet during his visit here with the cops bank at home yet. Meter aster all talk but i dont think hes the first autocrat to be received with all honors in germany. It seems that economic and political challenges make it necessary. At least according to our politicians. Im not that surprised i actually found our chancellors visits to turkey just before the elections there much more difficult. It was a direct interference and show of support in a period when it was still to be determined which half of the population would win the election of. Gets. In an open letter to Chancellor Merkel you urged her to show more courage in germanys relationship with turkey what exactly do you envisage. Thus far and believe that letter was two years ago but
its still very relevant today and the difference is that one is no longer in prison but of around Three Hundred Fifty journalists still incarcerated all over the world almost half of them One Hundred Forty Three journalists are in jail in turkey so that means should the chancellor be more engaged on my behalf if yes and yes of course also i think that also because of the refugees we have shared economic and social responsibilities where we need to cooperate all. The minds of all. But this cooperation cant be achieved no matter the cost nor can these agreements and deals. They will have a price and they will have consequences. In foreign and domestic policy all on offer and this undermines our values and beliefs. In turkey our values and beliefs are currently being met with utter disregard the dish or e media and Civil Service are being brought into line with Journalists Scientists Artists have had to emigrate how large is the exodus from turkey right now you go to cut off this is as must. Not of the since the republic was founded there have been many Military Coups in turkish society. And many Turning Points during which whole generations of intellectuals mostly left wing were being destroyed or driven out of the country. Germany experienced this exodus in the early eightys also the early seventys when many intellectuals arrived from turkey and now its another Turning Point another generation is being silenced and peoples existence is deeply threatened in. There are people being incarcerated without the protection. In of the rule of law they have been sentenced by an
autocrat before a court could even reach a verdict. So is it your theaters duty to show resistance front as if and only if. Its no coincidence that i ended up in the arts not politics to me theater is a clear and critical entity especially in our country after world war two. And it wasnt just a door know who told us we could no longer sing songs and write poems if we were not critical. Could take this culture of criticism in germany that this clear responsibility to question Power Structures it isnt just borne by the media but by the arts to its calling us to resist to take a stand at all its you know i read that when you were growing up in nuremberg at the age of fourteen you went to anti nucular demonstrations and took part in the easter marches and. What was your motivation back then about myself you. Know in these acts you give mind of i grew up in that very community of exiled turkish
intellectuals who found themselves in norm back after the Military Coup in One Thousand Nine Hundred one. It was a given to fight for human rights and to demonstrate against Nuclear Power the Nuclear Power plants were built in darkest or if not directly in norm back by the way its been put here for the injustice my family had experienced in turkey made me political and i stayed that way later my teachers Student Teachers in particular were very progressive that was back in the eightys in bavaria in Grammar Schools and it played another part in politicizing in shaping me. Does it even more we didnt only study the Shoah The Holocaust but also the Armenian Genocide for instance. Does that one of the reasons why you brought the play dictator to the Gorki Theater A play that was banned in turkey. And scorekeeping. In all of us including
right its by a colleague who has connections to germany chandu and doris also with us he is one of our Theater Columnist and the former editor in chief of trim hoody it was kept noise it was all this so there is a new exodus of Artists Journalists Caricaturists and others from turkey and. I think its no coincidence that they seek out this theatre because its just one of the connections they experience here not only in critical practice. In the could. Start in these you dont just see turkish societies endangered but german societies while you concerned about the constitution and fundamental german values who do you think is threatening them if they are asked why is. First of all the constitution is language. Like literature its poetic and visionary. Because its. Back then the authors of the constitution to adore hoists and his fellow campaigners knew exactly where they were coming from. But they werent quite sure where they were heading. It has a clear anti fascist impetus it was written to serve future european and world peace its incredibly poetic in such a simple language that Human Dignity shall be inviolable persons persecuted on political grounds shall have the right of asylum there shall be no censorship its a simple visionary language that has to be enacted and claimed and fought for in a Civil Society where the most and i can see your companys issues in your post migrant theatre. Could you tell us what that is in a not shouting to me mine. Shaft migrant means our society yes. Migrant migration has made it post migrants our society is based on diversity. Today we have people from many different backgrounds with different faiths outlooks and ways of loving and that is in danger. On their authorises in this country who want a monoculture one home country who are announce others rights for protection and this isnt just far right forces this is sliding towards the middle of society to all of the. Left of us. In the. Poor for this Diversity Project that you have opened your doors to actors from Syria Afghanistan and other countries where they are being persecuted for is this a new kind of exile art emerging. And exceed. In exile artist definitely emerging interim any not just in our theatre one many people have come here and some of them are artists and entire Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in braman it was made up solely of exiled syrian men and women look weve been lucky
enough to get State Funding for an Exile Ensemble which we were able to set up and run with the support of the Cultural Foundation vita that has enabled seven talented actresses to continue pursuing their careers in recent years. So you know the feeling well of being in a new place you spent the first nine years of your life with your grandparents in a Small Turkish Village by the sea what memories do you still have. Probably the very image you just described ive never been there i remember all of groves and an island we could see from our village it was less posts. Unless we lived directly across from lesbos its an island that since twenty fifteen is not only associated with women poets but with dead refugees floating ashore on. Events in the edo
mountain range where legend has it that the god saddest topped the mountain watching the Trojan War The Countryside has a special air about it and they are all hard to show. Off do you ever miss it. Sometimes i miss the sea and the people. But i can find that in other places. There are many Beautiful Spots in the world and in europe. I have many homes because i have many friends all over the world of course the place where you grew up where you experience Something Special stays with you on. This with me i have to say its a Pleasant Place for people to be with a lovely climate that attention and so on. To get cut short on deck life i dont want to get out of. As long haul thank you for talking to us and we still have three sentences for you ill start off and id like you to finish it this utopians
my greatest artistic goal is. Doesnt exclude my next project is the ground with fifty people in front of the Brandenburg Gate a libretto by marta gone its gone and an audience of millions the next project is always the biggest so thats what i wish for turkey as. The democracy piece. I say and the chance to really lay the foundations for the next decades if not longer the next. Seem to. Dislike for decades like turkey even before the a. K. P. Was in power has had an unstable democracy to put it mildly i miss gibbies the us i mean thats what i wish for all of humanity. The conditions for Liberty Solidarity and justice. Or what i expect of
germany and. What i expect of germany is that we start making new laws for the police and homeland ministries to accommodate far right extremists and right wing populist. This. Fall instead we should reflect on our basic law again especially the preamble. Up there and continue our commitment to world and european peace by. Chamish i mean long haul thank you for talking to us. You relax highlight the. Divine construction comes to drill celebrates. The World Heritage site. Threads fashion label. In paris daring maneuvers drone races get faster and more professional. In west africa there goes a truly magical bean its cast a spell on people the world over cocoa. Yet west africans dont reap much of the profits. They wind up in the pockets of big multinationals can we enjoy chocolate no holds barred how one mans redeeming the guilty pleasure of child. Sixty minutes long d. W. I. Kind of blew nearly. On this Jury Listening to reduce. The fight against illegal logging. Of. David. Against goliath
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