Right at the beginning but later celebrated and than just like i said i felt the deepest yearning for home but also happiness and i need him in some songs i felt the sadness and pain of the Syrian People the unkind. Afterwards they moved their stars for these fans elaina is them by the mantle of the syria they remember. Youre watching t. V. Every news from berlin will be back at the top of the hour with more news. Showing up today dont miss our highlights. Program online w dot com highlights. Terror at the more every british e. G. Camp is
a terrible suspicion coursing through one of europes largest Refugee Camps on the island of lives lost a legit i as father was as said to be terrorizing the refugees some say theyve created criminal structures we meet witnesses and victims in an exclusive report today in reporter on. The for. Sherman lang hall had Lens Gawky Theater 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 a post migrant theater and a difficult relationship between turkey and germany as long haul how do you feel about germany honoring turkish president with a State Banquet during his visit here but i got spunk at home yet. Clubbers me to
ask for 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. In an open letter to Chancellor Merkel you heard 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 of the 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 things on offer and this undermines our values and beliefs. Of the. Turkey our values and beliefs are currently being met with utter disregard disher
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 muscle and is a. Lot of the since the republican 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 now its another Turning Point another generation is being silenced and peoples existence is deeply threatened in. That 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 fear 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 this clear responsibility to question Power Structures it Isnt Just Born by the media but by the arts to its calling us to resist to take a stand. In the when 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 i think you are going all in the sixteen give mind 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. In finland for us 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 annoying back by the way. 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 Bavarian Grammar Schools and it played another part in politicizing in shaping me. As even more we didnt only study the Shoah The Holocaust but also the Armenian Genocide for instance. This is 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 our chandu and doris also with us he is
one of our Theater Columnist and the former editor in chief of to him who. Has kept noise x. He was always 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. Could. Start in these you dont just see turkish societies endangered but german societies while youre concerned about the constitution and fundamental german values who do you think is threatening them and they are asked why its all those. First of all the constitution is language. Literature its poetic and visionary. Because its because. Back then the authors of the constitution theodore hoists and
his fellow campaigners knew exactly where they were coming from. On t. For sure 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 simple visionary language that has to be enacted and claimed and fought for in a Civil Society where the most and i came from your companys issues in your post migrant theatre. Could you tell us what that is in im not sure of you dont mean 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 there are forces 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 that. The uses for this Diversity Projects 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 art emerging. I mix. In exile art is definitely emerging in germany not just in our theatre as many people have come here and some of them are artists and entire Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in braman was made up solely of exiled syrian Men And Women Young Girls 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. And are 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 both. 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. It is 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 theyre all hard to show. Off do you have a message. Sometimes i miss the sea and the people. But i can find that in other places. There are many beautiful sponsor 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 one. I have to say its a Pleasant Place for people to be with a lovely climate better taishan and so on. To get stored on Deck Livestock when all want to go a lot of 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 with this. My greatest artistic
goal is. Doesnt exclude my next project is the going to go 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 thats better what i wish for turkey is. A democracy peace. 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 was given 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. Instead we should with. Thank you for talking to us. You relax. To find instruction athens to will celebrate. World heritage site. C threads fashion label all showing up turns heads in paris. Maneuvers drone races get faster and more professional. Hear whats coming up on the good with so Much Movement in the famously gastric band meant to just look like youre going to go its going to take a look at what all that means for the title of course. The bundesliga came in five minutes total in. A contentious figure at home. In germany. Gorbachev was one of the great heroes of the Twentieth Century me kind of go which on the last leader of the soviet union was an agent of change. He continues to fight for world peace with the reminder by minaj we have to comprehend where peace