Saman Haddad, cultural mediator in Germany: "Don't talk about integration, just do it"
"Don’t talk about integration, just do it" The child of Iraqi refugees, Saman Haddad arrived in Germany twenty-five years ago at the age of thirteen. Now a well-known cultural figure in Bonn, Haddad doesn't wait for others to take the initiative. Nor does he let others' reactions put him off. Profile by Philipp Jedicke In a room in the middle of the city centre of Bonn, Germany, Saman Haddad sits behind a transparent screen, singing. Hans-Joachim Busching, clarinettist in the Beethoven Orchestra, stands in front of the plastic screen and, with the help of his instrument, demonstrates how b...
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