TV-Tipp: ‘Menschenhandel’ auf Arte
You are Deutschland, too (just kidding)
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Bill:28.01.2006 um 16:27I picked this conversation up over at the Technorati blog today and I think that the topic making Technorati’s most blogged post-of-the-day is great. Thanks for providing the English-language summary (I’ve been able to enjoy the row “auf Deutsch” as well).
I live and work in Germany and am familiar with the ad campaign “Du Bist Deutschalnd”. Whoever said that the Bundesregierung and Jean-Remy von Matt’s PR firm missed the mark is right. Germany is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, international society today but there remains many many problems with Germans and Ausländer (foreigners) accepting the fact that they must work hard together to become a significant part of the whole (the whole = a healthy and vibrant Germany). That’s just one angle and of course there are many other aspects pointed out so well by German bloggers writing about this subject.
Nonetheless I feel that over time (a lot of time) many people living here will figure it out for themselves and there won’t be any need for such a campaign. “Du bist Deutschland” will just be a matter of fact. Great stuff though (German bloggers), keep it up. Yo, Germany is “in the House”!
BTW: Jean-Remy von Matt is as out-of-touch with the Blogosphere as he is with people in Germany. Where’s he from, France?
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Thanks for bringing this special feature on slavery to the attention of your readers at Spreeblick. I viewed the documentaries by chance on the first airing and was fascinated with the information presented in Antoine Vitkine’s film about the history of the slave trade in the Middle East and trade of black Africans between African kingdoms.
For your information the film (auf Deutsch) “Sklaven für den Orient” will be repeating at ARTE TV on July 18th (11:05 AM). The film about slavery in Mauritania “Die letzten Sklaven” last aired on July 3rd. I’m working on a translation (German text to English) of the ARTE TV program descriptions and will publish to my blog sometime this week. I’ve also drilled down online and found more historical research on the subject so you may want to check that out too.
Thanks also to Van for those links to the streaming video files hosted (presumably) at ARTE +7. The URL for “Sklaven für den Orient” is amazingly still working as of today. It was a tremendous help to me to be able to view that documentary again. For some strange reason the ARTE +7 online video archives are not accessable online outside of France, Germany, and a handful of French territories and former colonies around the globe.
Again, thanks for your help in researching this important subject. It’s what blogging is supposed to be all about, sharing information and knowledge with one another around the world.