Fatih Akin: “A work full of tolerance and compassion” – Tagesspiegel

While serving quietly purring electric cars in Birkenstock or chopper style in the arcades of the gardens of Norderney the company Mobilis spa guests elegant to test drive, only one mini-Rolli tour some stag parties with booze and hooting working away at the noise level. In the nearby city center: fine boutiques next to junk shops and vacant. The clash of cultures is everyday practice in the ancient North Sea resort. But that is probably most in there immigrated and settled people from fifty nations. As they work together successfully and peacefully, it proudly Kurdirektor Wilhelm blazes in the near, exquisitely renovated Conversationshaus at a press conference.

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occasion an evening awards ceremony still schmuckeren Kurtheater 19th century. There has been awarded at the 27th Film Festival Emden- Norderney for the second time of the tender of the island administration Norderneyer Integration Award – a markup category currently has a slightly dubious aftertaste because of the spongy integration concept and a penchant for inflation. Not only because of the appreciation in Norderney might be described as a prize for intercultural understanding better. For they shall go according to the description of a person who “has earned in her film work in a special way to the coexistence and reconciliation between people of different cultures, religions or political systems to”.

Fatih Akin’s work is according to the jury for “tolerance, humanitarian ideology and compassion”

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this year with Fatih Akin a leading German filmmaker. A choice which, dominated by former Grimme Prize Winners Jury but not “The Cut” justified by his past, which just highly topical Armenian Genocide dedicated work but with all the work of the director and his “humanitarian ideology” that “for tolerance , compassion and cooperation “stand. Moreover, Akin had “shown in an inimitable, emotionally compelling way how painful may be the so-called integration”. As patron and presenter is former German President Christian Wulff had won, who stressed in his impassioned eulogy next to a dedicated case for multiculturalism that the threat to “our way of life” currently do not come from outside but from within. Fatih Akin took briefly the floor, but managed in his incisive words of thanks, the integration term voices to call from external demand for the self-collection of songs ends in an appeal to his own self-assured attitude: The prompt, no longer with the views of others see and define. The prize money of 5,000 euros will go to a still to be selected initiative.