I am a man from syria fled war in his homeland. Sasha astonished from bosnia fled genocide in his homeland. Antonio scar made up from chile fled an occupational ban in his homeland. Judas care from germany fled the nazis. Nuna from nigeria flood violence in the family. Five people who have one thing in common they had to make fresh starts in strange countries. We all wanted to be german by all means there are sheehans wanted to be german. Did the iranian girls the old when i did some of the me when did i so try to get blue eyes and blond hair the only propositions trying to be chaplin. Nikka of no knock came to hamburg in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine at the age of nineteen her german mother had left her when she was just two after that she grew up with her father and stepmother in nigeria. She would rather not talk about why she left but her brother wrote a book in which he tells how the stepmother terrorized abused and starved the children in nigeria she was forced to do the housework in hamburg she enjoys cooking nigerian specialities. It was a time when i didnt feel like a stranger here in the beginning you know coming here. Thinking half of my life so that was half white and all but as. He called it half caste in our country. Which is a name for people who are mixed. All who have certain privileges coming to germany i realize that that wasnt the case when somebody told me that oh youre a nigga oh im a nigga oh wow i didnt know that. I have ahmed ended up in be spotted in twenty sixteen having fled the war in syria his trek took him through Turkey Greece serbia croatia and austria before he finally reached germany envy spot and he shares a ten square meter room with five other men in a refugee hostel his wife and their two small sons are still in syria. I feel very ashamed because i am when you see it with my friends. With with my ok. And the people are still dying for the fedayeen in the school or to. Know without forethought. You dont can save all or the people together you will feel you will decide to save yourself or your family its very difficult time for me i miss my boys my wife very far that im over. I come off mud was born and raised in this Palestinian Refugee camp in yarmuk near damascus he learned to play the piano at the age of five. He was still playing when islamists overran and laid waste to yarmuk in twenty fifteen. And not before one of the things happen were the most horrible things we see sitting near the pier and think. Here we have what i need her power and i see their little game dying near the piano and this is the horrible things in my mind i think about how human rights or the other threat then again we see the reason we dont mean anything. I ham cannot forget what he saw now he fears for his family who are still in syria. Thats forgotten of all for the asking when the first five thousand bosnian refugees arrived in germany on special trains they received a warm welcome public willingness to help and make donations was running high from the wartime suffering was at least on the refugees faces as was their gratitude for the fact that germany offered them refuge thoughts nancy all phenomena. Such astonishing is one of those five thousand he and his parents arrived in heidelberg where an uncle lived in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two he was fourteen years old and new to words of german. The family applied for asylum and had to wait months to find out if they could stay. So. Theres all this uncertainty even if you make it somewhere else you could be deported to a country where youre not welcome at all and to which you do not want to return visit with those three months were awful for my family they were. The start of family were put up in high dont back emmott school and socially deprived area with many ethnic minorities he would later say the place that made the most effort to integrate people was a gas station he wrote there in the parking lot we taught each other bad german and how to install car radios. As the dust on the found that we were not from germany did not play such a major role in emirates going to which was a cultural melting pot anyway at the same time there was always a kind of Competition Among the ethnic groups it wasnt just a case of peacefully Holding Hands and going to school together. Usually the poles stuck with the poles and the turks with the turks. But there are also outstanding examples of people mixing it with your love stories or common interests like football or sport in general how. The neck of bridge in heidelberg helped him to feel at home too it reminded him of the bridge in his hometown shagrat except here it was safe. Judith care had to leave her homeland too. She was just turning ten when the National Socialist seized power in germany in one thousand nine hundred thirty three. She fled to switzerland with her older brother michael. D. For me it is just this us family is everything especially for a child. I always felt safe in creek but less so during the war when the bombs found of our home was destroyed by bombs in a but our family was there for us. Judith care had a sheltered upbringing in a comfortable part of berlin the carers were jewish but not especially devout. Alfred care was a famous theater critic and an opponent of the nazis one night in february one thousand thirty three under the cover of darkness the family abandoned their home in the leafy berlin suburb of to revive. Just in time to the secret police were on the verge of cancelling their travel papers the nazis confiscated everything the carers had to leave behind. From switzerland their flight took them to paris. It was a big adventure for a ten year old. I loved it i was very happy in paris it was a lovely thing mine and water but my mother learned french cuisine you know you have never before had we even so well that iris was wonderful and the windows. Apparently i once said to my father. It was dark and our apartment was on a very high floor because the rent was low it when you live tyra who beleaguered him and wanted and from our little balcony you could look out over the paris and apparently i said to my father is not great to be a refugee and. Its just. I mean fifteen to side that must have amused him of the title because it must have been unbelievably hard for my parents and that is that owned loutish with. Her father tried without success to sell his work as the money ran out the parents grew more desperate. Than i would to. My mother said oh yes i only found this out later. That she wanted to commit suicide in paris that. See what. It was in some lesson from my father that someone found. Small began. Boring. And playful in mine and he said she wanted to take the two of us with her my brother and me. Went to jail name and porter and i was shocked of course. Sure to find and i saw the date on the status of i had only just learned friend shifted hati still a lot of hunch it would have been very annoying to have to diet just when i was learning to speak french ellicott i think function should clinton. Get a little. Slow in the one nine hundred seventy s. Berlin the city judith care once fled became a place of refuge for people fleeing persecution many of them came from chile august second. You know you. My number your son to my name is antonio scotmid i am a writer from chile. I left chile in one nine hundred seventy three because of the coup detat against the democratically elected president Salvador Allende that led to a military dictatorship in my country and that is that if when the how to. Cite them i have been living in a west berlin with my family i may be for eight years. So i talked out of what i invest will be by the for me here. Antonio was lucky through family connections he got a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange service. With this wouldnt be this i decided to leave the country of my own free will. I was not tortured a single time served and i just lost my job which is very little compared to the suffering other people went through so for your. With the. Four here where todays concert goers wait for their star to perform was a place of torture and murder. After the putsch the military interned thousands of people in the soccer stadium people were indiscriminately arrested and tortured the stadium became a concentration camp under the new ruler augusta can share. One hundred people were confined to a single locker room and had to share two toilets. More than two thousand men and women were murdered more than one thousand are still missing today. Antonios car matter is safe but as a writer he lived off his language now he had to get by in a strange country whose language he did not speak. Yes you have it bad mia i was reunited with my family when i got to germany seahorse and i saw at the time i had two sons of seven and five years of age six. But obviously to make a long story short i must say that to learn the language very quickly and the conversations i had including with german journalists for example over the telephone rang out in my idea. That the people spoke very fast on the telephone the what if and when someone called me and offered me Something Like it or ask the question. I would pass the receiver to my son and my son went to answer for me if you mean. Like antonios comment his children sasha astonished which learned german quickly and heidelberg he attended a special school for immigrants the bosnian boys german and history teachers gave him extra attention. Given they were more than just teachers they were great people i thought they looked after us and not just work to rule. They were there for and they understood various aspects of our situation and them even. When he went to university he moved from the outskirts of heidelberg to the town center the only reason he was allowed to stay in germany was that he had a chance of going to college his parents applications for permanent residency were rejected and they emigrated to the us in a way he was lucky. And i know without a doubt that mine was a single fate and that it was an exception rather than the rule and i dont have dark skin and you cant necessarily see that im not a german as bad as that is it makes all things easier in germany. Who has dual german nigerian citizenship is sometimes reminded of this but she also enjoys newfound freedoms that had never been in the police way you know. Where you could see you want something on you get immediately like have access to education free. And having you know just having your own space you own your own room you own your own time we could just shut the door and see this is my time now so i think having that kind of. Definitely. Helped me grow and gain an identity find out who i really am. Just right from the start she soaked up german she learned the language went to school and university but her heart was in Something Else. I started like recording myself on my dick and then i meant it and then we decided to explore more you know how the on the ground sessions that we used to do in different parts just doing music for love not you know not for the money not for competition just. Doing it and he introduced me to a different side of making music keyboard hip hop into my life. Do i already think i was hip or before he kind of like just you know he educated me a lot. On here and i on the other hand being on africa introduced. The african side to him and then being in germany. You know it was like an amazing mix. Her mixture of dubs soul reggae and afro beat went down well and in two thousand and five nikki released her first album four more followed along with tours of europe and the us her songs are about god and family but also about violence environmental destruction and social injustices in nigeria. Have never been. In we. Thought it did we know. That we dont. I hope that if. I. Turn. Peoples lives. Moved. In it in a speech. And english her Mother Tongue. It is a language in which she feels and thinks there was a time when she would rather have forgotten about her african roots and today her African Heritage is part of her. His native language was not the right around tony. When he fled chile he lost his subject matter to. The the. That it was pointless to continue talking in the same terms and language addressing the same subculture and subconscious as i did when i communicated with much of land readers. My work had many references to chile and soccer players to movie stars to the streets and districts of the city to what i shared in common with are that she lands the earth because i look back now i was experiencing Something Else which could be very big. The prince. Of exile. It was a turning point in exile was to become his most important literary thing it was to play. A role in many of his works. You can remember when. I wrote a novel called no passanante nothing happens. That is the story of an exiled boy i give you brought here by its parents or i dont recall exactly about fourteen years old. Is a novel strictly about exile a tale of exile from the point of view of youth. The young child is torn. Hes in love with a german girl but his chilean parents want him to take part in solidarity events for chilean dissidents. A uniquely exile tells of his life this year of his exiled parents equally about his friends and school when his first love and this pretty well how he falls in love with a girl who sells records at a music store and it him at the end of their first dates theres the pieces they enjoyed the last piece of the magazines they read and the music they listen to. The other in the early one how to learn german by listening to the lyrics of songs while walking down the street wearing headphones and singing along to learn the song and they would like to you. Provide me with the leopard of hundreds. Ok we always try to do things with the whole family so for example. Gabriele place piano. Blues and jazz. And he is very sad. Oh. And its ok for example i mean every day situation. We were all very sad when School Started again after Vacation Time but everybody. So i decided to write a blues song for gabriella governors who so far and. What i mean mine. Today is day. To. Day is the first day. The experiences antonios car meant to describes in no possum nada are similar to those of his sons they grew up in between more. Chiko something that would not be i mean that if your children learn languages very quickly and quickly established relations with their peers in the heat this way that you know just in our case we had to leave our country and it was very interesting to see how children adapted to the different rules of play but given the increasing few lives first they had allegiances to their parents but you know who could not live in their homeland he said yeah get them freedom yes but if youre going to commit here or go to secondly they had allegiances to themselves. That their future cities where their prospects for us to their peers a sense of their music on the streets and the excitement of a new language and the human. They had to reconcile two different worlds the world outside which called out to them saying live with me if we dont and the world of their parents which called out think of your country where remember and think of the time when we can return a viable. Simply to war and i know we were always sure that we would return to chile but we just hoped and waited for it to be possible sometimes secretly. In one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the military dictatorship finally came to an end in chile antonio returned to some to go with his second wife a german their two older sons stayed on in berlin for them chile was no longer home. I have also yearns for his homeland syria he misses his piano to the i. R. S. Islam ists for whom music is sacrilege burned it here in germany a music store allows him to play. By himself father was an instrument maker and had his own store back in syria for much of his life he dreamed of taking over the store from his father. When i am still in syria its my body when i have my whole life i have. No. Peace and sit with my family. We meet with the things in this film and i teach the children all the time around the point in mindful. They have. Its i home for new music as their. People come to hear i have music and his stories today its too close up for me to play this game. With a beauty for the friend we will play a song. From germany make it somethings happen maybe change. This is crazy were going to. Shall believe that its in the cup be bought out the mind of the lawyer that we. Shall believe. But not that. We have that big. Yet i am as father wanted him to become a concert pianist but a shrapnel wound in his left hand dashed those hopes now he plays to bring attention to the suffering in syria. In the biggest day in the. World with. Some of. The musician somewhere to play in the stairway the. Only. Just in like are three five four booths. Its a lot of things for me and this is why i dont just whine when would i go and do i have a lot of things in my. In my. Bed exists. On cd on the phone but. When i am off man had been in germany without his family for a year this arab supermarket was the closest he came to home. Many of his relatives and friends died in their attempts to flee syria as the battles raged the war has triggered europes biggest refugee crisis since the second world war. After his family had to close down its music store i have ahmed sold falafel in syria sometimes he plays concerts here but he doesnt have a steady job. In august twenty sixth seen his wife to honey and two children finally got permission to join him in germany and they moved into an apartment in the spot on. But his parents were still in yarmuk or water and food were running out and the war continued. Obviously for. Its for me the music physiotherapy when i want to play concert ive played in the bathroom the music its still in my blood i need to get it out you know these things its not about the concert but i believe i like to play in my house with my boys and with mrs i would make a thread of it because i still would not exist why is there pianist this smoke that chills when the people tell me you want a great pianist think you. But could it be in this that make it a lot of things. You know. At least he has his own piano again now. But he would still rather go back to syria with his family nobody knows if that will ever be possible even when the war is over it will take decades to rebuild the country and clear the land mines but he will still be homesick. In heidelberg the writer sasha astonished made his new language his living. That is up to us yet and care about the entire flight the asian have been sucking sweets man every time he opened one he folded the wrapper carefully into a square and stuffed it into the pocket on the back of a seat in front of him well i what. And in chile it was overflowing with little squares of sweet records a lot of ice that was ignored by the asian harvest as normally he would have been happy with that but this time he felt that the asian was deliberately ignoring it as if to say im not bothering with you i prefer to bother with the sweets and the fifth is dear mr horrible where are you. Thank you very much. I have to my first novel i found it hard to read in public i had the feeling that people could see that in german is not my Mother Tongue that this was something ive consciously been working on for the past eight to ten years to make it go away from my vocabulary because it gets in the way of seeing that often off them so i notice myself when im with writers who have the same tendency. And then i pay great attention if i can tell a balance has been reached on the emphases and mistakes. And i believe that because ive practiced something and achieved a certain amount of confidence. That its helped me be more open and active on stage. His books talk about his experiences of war and flight but not only his second book for tim fest or before the feast hes based in east germany he was awarded the leipzig book fair prize for it in twenty fourteen of the five there are three areas that are actually essential for successful integration into a city and a country on the things go more or less right at school but your family relations are intact and that youre not confined to your own in your social environment and your circle of friends and. Allies of course it sounds bad but do you also have to have german friends on vietnamese or whatever. London in the second world war. This is where the care family finally ended up as it fled the nazis judith care was seventeen when the german look attacked london. While she was working for the red cross her brother michael was interned as an enemy alien although as a jew he was fleeing persecution by the nazis upon his release he became a pilot in the Royal Air Force he felt like a briton prepared to defend his country i. Mean time the care spoke to each other in english only it was easy for judith and her brother they became more and more rooted in british culture. And ended. By the end of the war it was clear to me these mine that this was my home until jose sed. Us not to but not for our parents at that one as they did not belong anywhere. That. When the war was over judith stayed in england she worked for the b. B. C. Married and had two children she wanted to tell her family story and so wrote and illustrated a book when hitler stole pink rabbit. This autobiographical novel is still read by many schoolchildren in germany and it she tells her story from back then as seen through the eyes of a child. Does. Just. When i had finished writing the pink rabbit. To. The now i thought i had written it as honestly as i could be his calling to other theater sleaze and for. Anybody who would learn to read it just by being i always thought was interesting in real Childrens Books if things go wrong then the mother going away so clothes and a coke light in my home call home and the father can chop wood and fix everything. Polish toilets all on board but i thought he had alice thats not how my parents were. And i thought can you even describe it in writing. Surely thats all wrong for a Childrens Book i hadnt as his book on file to conduct. The book made her world famous it does not merely tell the moving story of a jewish family that has to flee from the nazis it also reflects on how flight and foreignness affect family members and their relations with each other they had to needle other thread and man it and no i could never have written about it while my parents were still alive and people are too shy. I think its not something you can do. Is what you cant write about people who are still alive and well read it its like you have to have some distance before you can write about it. For us who did i know because we were refugees and had to move country again and again and face new difficulties again and again we were closer than most families. And i thought i want to write about what happens in a family person help things change. And hitler was also present for us at. The battlefield but i wanted to write about how things change. Intro to go. Hes decided that. Judith care keeps coming back to berlin in the one nine hundred ninety s. She visited a Berlin School named after her. In. My she no longer feels hatred or anger toward the country from which the nazis expelled her. Landing done in the thin line you monthly when you need someone all day you always think what did they do record time he did cite. The hits but at the same time i remember it well when it was at this primary school. And we were talking about the things that had happened back then or the teachers said we all bear guilt for that crimea i love surety or die and i was a hold of these children how could they be guilty of something that happened while their parents were probably still children of us percy is just. Vosh ideational kinda. Most of judith cares stories are written for children. In twenty sixteen she presented a new book in berlin. Her picture books are about sea lions forgetful house cats tigers that come for tea and daredevil senior citizens. In the audience for many refugees and children of refugees judith care went through a lot of that is for mildred to them. This is the alex world record its like this one you arrive in a country and dont understand or read. And you think this isnt possible. And then suddenly after a year maybe you speak the language. And you think in the language. And its great. And then you think when youve learned it and you know everything is possible im just honest. And indeed much did become possible for judiths care she made a new home in england and is still writing and exchanging emails at over ninety. Nine geria the home of musician nikka brightly colored warm chaotic worlds apart from northern germany the call of home eventually caught up with her and that was my fist. Falling back in love you know with my with my point she didnt see it falling the first time with no likely because i never really saw a night so yeah like so do we. I maybe should have we weve something you love you realize how much you love it. Or how much you hate it. In legos the biggest city in nigeria sometimes sells her own designs in a friends store. And in her new german way of seeing things discovers a different side of the country from which she fled as a child from her violent stepmother. I love nigeria. Take me to gonna take me to syria on take me wherever you want to take me i was to come back to nigeria. And has hamburg not become her home to. Yes i sometimes do. And sometimes i dont just like. Any way else in the world like if i travel. For a month. I dont feel like. I want to get out or if im the legal us you know its the same the same feeling you know its theres nothing negative just. Feeling and just me. And then come back. When god permits me to do that also like i dont feel at home but only to be honest i would like to fight for the whole im on my way to life is a journey. Flight ended for some in a new homeland for others back where they came from their books films and music tell us stories of change how they change themselves but also how they change the countries they arrived in. Me. For sarah willis playing the horn is a. Perfect. Join her journey as a musical discovery. And then beethoven festival m. Bone sarah meets a lot of young talent what. 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