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“berlinfolgen” – Multimedia-Workshop
In diesem dreitägigen Workshop lernen Sie eine Multimedia-Reportage im Stile der “berlinfolgen” zu produzieren. Diese Serie ist eine Koproduktion von taz.de und 2470media. Menschen, die in Berlin leben, erzählen hier ihre ganz persönliche Geschichte. Dabei führen sie uns an besondere Orte der Stadt. Und das nicht wie üblich in Videobildern, sondern in knapp dreiminütigen Fotofilmen: mittels starker Fotografie, [...]
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Then I Became a Muslim.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Islam has become a hotly debated topic worldwide, regardless of whether it is about the politics of countries with an islamic culture, or the life of Muslims in our society. While the history of Islam in Germany is older then the immigration of so-called Gastarbeiter (‘guestworker’) from former [...]
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Still Hard at Work
The servant home in Oeschberg in Bern canton is the only retirement home in Switzerland that caters solely to servants and maids. It might be better to say: the last generation of hired hands and maids, because the professions are dying out. The maids and hired hands who live in Oeschberg still feel as needed [...]
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Europe’s Forgotten Edge
Less than two decades after the end of the communist era, Romania’s mission towards democracy and liberal markets has already reached its primary goal: Since January 2007, Romania is a full member of the European Union – its business centres are booming, and the Romanian economy catches up with its role models in Western Europe [...]
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From Dusk Till Dawn
The fishermen of Baoût, a village of 400 in the Senegalese Saloum delta, work under extreme conditions to make their living: Up to twenty of them are cramped on tiny pirogue boats when they leave their village in the afternoon to catch Bonga shad or Ethmalosa herring out at sea, 50 miles away. The men, [...]
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Mongolia in Transition
Since the 1990s, life even in the far-off steppes of Mongolia has been increasingly influenced by Western consumer goods. To be sure, modernization is gradual here – in the yurt, the new stereo remains discreetly in the background and outside, horses trot around the jeeps parked there as if they had always been there. But [...]
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