WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:40.300 --> 00:00:42.700 Welcome to Channel Welcome. 00:00:42.700 --> 00:00:47.739 I’m the new intern here and I would like to tell you a little 00:00:47.739 --> 00:00:50.079 about myself, my journey and my future dreams. 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:54.780 The easiest way to do that is to show you a short Portrait, that I’ve made. 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.800 Hello. My name is Aylin Dericioglu. 00:01:11.820 --> 00:01:15.040 My name is Aylin Dericioglu and I’m 19 years old. 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:20.020 When people hear my surname, many usually think that I can speak perfect Turkish. 00:01:20.030 --> 00:01:23.100 That would be nice, but isn’t all that true. 00:01:23.100 --> 00:01:24.599 I’m half Turkish. 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.100 Mein Vater kommt aus der Türkin und meine Mutter aus Deutschland. 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:31.671 My dad is from Turkey and my mom from Germany. But I was born and raised here in Germany. 00:01:31.671 --> 00:01:37.500 And always when someone asks me how I feel, I say: I feel German. 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:41.670 My surname has gotten me into a few misunderstanding situations though. 00:01:41.670 --> 00:01:46.959 For example, when I go visit my dad in Turkey, coworkers on the airport 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:53.429 talk to me in Turkish naturally 00:01:53.429 --> 00:01:58.480 and they look bewildered when they notice that I don’t speak any Turkish. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:04.290 My surname has also brought disadvantages for me, be it in school or somewhere 00:02:04.290 --> 00:02:05.290 else. 00:02:05.290 --> 00:02:08.759 As soon as people read my surname, they assume, that I don’t speak the German language 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:12.379 perfectly or that I live in a different culture. 00:02:12.379 --> 00:02:17.819 I personally try to ignore as many of these things as possible, because I know 00:02:17.819 --> 00:02:22.489 who I am and when other people aren’t able to comprehend that, it’s not my problem. 00:02:22.489 --> 00:02:25.360 But it’s still kind of annoying. 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.319 My mom married my dad when she was exactly my age now. 00:02:29.900 --> 00:02:32.999 For me it’s almost unthinkable to already get married at this age. 00:02:32.999 --> 00:02:39.619 The first three years of their relationship, my mum spent the most of the time in Turkey. 00:02:39.690 --> 00:02:44.260 She always stayed there for about 3 months and then came back to Germany from time to time. 00:02:44.260 --> 00:02:49.291 She learned Turkish, went shopping to the bazar and tried to 00:02:49.291 --> 00:02:50.350 build a life there. 00:02:50.350 --> 00:02:53.710 But at some point she decided that she wants to go back to Germany. 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:55.580 And my dad came along. 00:02:55.590 --> 00:03:01.560 They started a life here and got three kids, I’m the youngest of them. 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:05.700 My dad had a carpet shop here in Augsburg in the Bäckergasse street. 00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:11.090 When I was a kid, the shop was like my second home and I knew each and every shop owner 00:03:11.090 --> 00:03:12.090 on the street. 00:03:12.090 --> 00:03:16.219 And they knew exactly at which time of the day I will be coming to visit them. 00:03:16.219 --> 00:03:21.250 The Lotto Toto owner, from whom I came daily to get my Duplo 00:03:21.250 --> 00:03:25.400 or the hairdresser who made me pretty every day. 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:28.290 Unfortunately, our shop isn’t there anymore. 00:03:28.290 --> 00:03:32.349 My parents divorced when I was 9 00:03:32.349 --> 00:03:36.370 and about 5 years ago, my dad decided to go back to Turkey. 00:03:36.370 --> 00:03:40.400 He didn’t feel well here anymore and he missed his homeland. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:45.749 I was never angry with him because of this and I’m trying to visit him as often as possible. 00:03:45.749 --> 00:03:50.370 In a few days, I’m flying over again to visit my dad. 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:54.249 And in the next broadcast, you will find out more about the life and feelings 00:03:54.249 --> 00:03:59.169 of my dad, how he feels in Turkey and how he used to feel in Germany. 00:03:59.730 --> 00:04:04.819 Every time I’m in Turkey and I visit my relatives, I’m sad 00:04:04.819 --> 00:04:09.299 that I can’t speak Turkish, because I can barely talk to them, 00:04:09.299 --> 00:04:12.349 I don’t know how they’re doing, what they have been doing in the last months. 00:04:12.349 --> 00:04:17.910 Then I often ask myself, who I am and what identity I have. 00:04:17.910 --> 00:04:23.860 I like the German culture, but I also like the Turkish hospitality 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:27.020 and the evening gatherings on the terrasse. 00:04:27.020 --> 00:04:32.530 I have decided for myself to learn Turkish, firstly to be able to talk to my relatives 00:04:32.530 --> 00:04:36.550 but secondly to be a part of both countries. 00:04:37.700 --> 00:04:39.960 Now I’m here at Channel Welcome. 00:04:39.970 --> 00:04:41.379 There are a few reasons for this. 00:04:41.379 --> 00:04:46.470 Partly because of my migration background and partly because I have applied to a 00:04:46.470 --> 00:04:51.270 filmmaker college, where I had to submit a two-minute video about myself. 00:04:51.270 --> 00:04:55.430 I didn’t have the opportunity to edit my video professionally, so me and 00:04:55.430 --> 00:04:58.490 Channel Welcome decided to work together. 00:04:58.490 --> 00:05:03.450 I’ll film a few videos for them and in exchange for that, I will be allowed to work on my video here. 00:05:03.889 --> 00:05:08.189 Then I decided to do an internship here and today I am happy 00:05:08.189 --> 00:05:13.769 to guide you through the broadcast out there. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.040 Hello, this is me. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:24.940 No, further up! 00:05:24.940 --> 00:05:27.020 Yea, that’s me! 00:05:27.020 --> 00:05:32.260 I’m just an ordinary human and like lots of girls, I love purses, shoes, makeup, 00:05:32.260 --> 00:05:32.940 jewellery. 00:05:32.940 --> 00:05:35.099 Well, simply everything that you need. 00:05:35.099 --> 00:05:37.720 That’s my sister and my mom. 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:40.949 No, that’s obviously not what we really look like. 00:05:40.949 --> 00:05:47.080 This is my mom and a lot of people think that we look very similar. 00:05:47.080 --> 00:05:49.290 This is my sister. 00:05:49.290 --> 00:05:53.930 She’s a paramedic and always ready to help, when you need her. 00:05:53.930 --> 00:05:58.650 Oh yea, my brother, he actually doesn’t live with us anymore, but he comes to visit from time to time. 00:05:59.760 --> 00:06:01.640 He’s getting his masters degree in psychology. 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.900 Unfortunately there’s someone missing at the table. 00:06:05.900 --> 00:06:08.449 My dad, who lives in Turkey. 00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:11.580 But I still would like to introduce him to you. 00:06:13.100 --> 00:06:16.360 I really like to go drink coffee with my girl friends. 00:06:16.370 --> 00:06:20.620 Simply to have a nice chat, for a few hours. 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:28.780 I like shopping just as much, though my wallet doesn’t really appreciate that. 00:06:28.780 --> 00:06:35.600 Oh well, what should I say, everyone’s got their flaws. 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.420 This is my best friend, we really like to eat out together. 00:06:39.740 --> 00:06:41.580 But mostly only healthy. 00:06:45.020 --> 00:06:49.820 But because I like eating out so much, I do twice as much sports 00:06:49.820 --> 00:06:51.320 which I enjoy very much though. 00:06:52.300 --> 00:06:55.740 And I enjoy doing this even more: What am I doing there? 00:06:55.750 --> 00:06:58.229 Filming of course. 00:06:58.229 --> 00:07:02.200 And this: this is me. 00:07:28.200 --> 00:07:33.409 Vulgar and embarassing Deputy of AfD causes uproar in the Saxon parliament 00:07:33.409 --> 00:07:38.930 Sebastian Wippel, 00:07:38.930 --> 00:07:44.730 the deputy of right-wing populists, stated the following in a debate: 00:07:44.730 --> 00:07:46.509 "Our chancellor got us into a soup [a mess]. A soup, that nobody ordered, cooked with the recipe: 00:07:46.509 --> 00:07:50.500 soup, that nobody ordered, cooked with the recipe: dem Rezept 'Wir schaffen das`“. 'We can do this.'" 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:55.949 "And so now we got the receipt, now for the first time in Germany too, 00:07:55.949 --> 00:07:58.340 with the attacks in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. 00:07:58.340 --> 00:08:06.050 Then he continued with a hardly imaginable sentence: "Unfortunately, it has not affected 00:08:06.050 --> 00:08:07.300 the ones responsible for these policies." 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:16.949 The left spoke about a "murder call" the Green party politician Valentin Lippmann said: 00:08:16.949 --> 00:08:19.680 "I would not have believed, that something like this 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:24.630 can be seriously said at a parliament meeting in a democratic country, in the 21st century." 00:08:24.630 --> 00:08:31.349 Wippel, who is also a police inspector, excused his vulgarity as 00:08:31.349 --> 00:08:32.780 „a slip-up." 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:41.280 CSU secretary general about refugees The CSU Politician Andreas Scheuer 00:08:41.280 --> 00:08:47.451 spoke against the press club of Regensburg in September: 00:08:47.451 --> 00:08:50.630 "The worst is a football playing, ministrating 'Sengalese'. 00:08:50.630 --> 00:08:57.200 He has been in Germany for three years as an economical refugee, we will never get rid of him." 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:04.340 The secretary general of the christian social union 00:09:04.340 --> 00:09:06.980 meant the rejected asylum seekers, who are however well integrated in Germany. 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:09.620 More to this topic in the commentary of this broadcast. 00:09:11.420 --> 00:09:17.670 Overqualified refugees in Germany Refugees in Germany are not as well 00:09:17.670 --> 00:09:19.850 integrated as in other european countries. 00:09:19.850 --> 00:09:25.060 They are mostly well educated, yet take on jobs for the low educated: 00:09:25.060 --> 00:09:31.579 accordingly, the proportion of overqualified refugees in Germany is approximately 71 percent, 00:09:31.579 --> 00:09:36.390 opposed to the EU average of 60 percent. 00:09:36.390 --> 00:09:44.860 An OECD Study named the reasons: Only 9 percent of refugees with a stay of less than 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:48.670 10 years are advanced in the German language. 00:09:48.670 --> 00:09:56.170 In Spain, where the most refugees come from latin America, stands the value at 98 percent. 00:09:56.459 --> 00:10:01.790 After a stay of more than 10 years in Germany however, every second refugee posessed advanced knowledge of the language, just like in the rest of the EU. 00:10:01.790 --> 00:10:04.480 just like in the rest of the EU. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:12.400 According to the study, receiving citizenship has also proved helpful. 00:10:12.410 --> 00:10:19.320 On average were 61 percent of refugees integrated in the EU after ten years. 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:22.990 In Germany, on the other hand, it was only 40 percent. 00:10:22.990 --> 00:10:30.170 Therewith is Germany "the only huge exception among the main intaking countries", according to the study. 00:10:30.170 --> 00:10:37.000 "If the CSU takes the constitution seriously, they can not demand an upper limit. 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.250 That will not be allowed by the asylum rights. 00:10:40.250 --> 00:10:47.040 And the asylum rights must stay as they are," said cardinal Rainer Woelki, the archbishop of Cologne. 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:52.089 Consequently, "the meaningless discussion about upper limits has got to stop." 00:10:52.089 --> 00:10:59.860 With upper limits for refugees, presented by the CSU chief Horst Seehofer 00:10:59.860 --> 00:11:05.500 and a preference for immigrants from the christian-occidental culture circle, 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:11.870 the party contributed to an even bigger polarisation and plays in the cards of right-wing populists of the AfD, 00:11:11.870 --> 00:11:14.600 said the roma-catholic theologist. 00:11:16.280 --> 00:11:23.200 The former CDU secretary general has a similar opinion: 00:11:23.209 --> 00:11:25.920 "The CSU is on the wrong end of history. 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:31.450 They are jeopardizing the existence of the Union with their attacks on the chancellor 00:11:31.450 --> 00:11:32.190 and are strenghtening the AfD. 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:39.120 Heiner Geifller told the Passauer Neuen press: 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:45.690 "Th CSU has evolved their own ideology from nationalism and fending off foreigners. 00:11:45.690 --> 00:11:49.560 They are a regional narrow-gauge party, just like the AfD." 00:11:49.560 --> 00:11:57.420 Anne Treibel, a sociologist from Karlsruhe, calls for integrating courses, 00:11:57.420 --> 00:11:59.880 that are not limited to immigrants, when handling migrants. 00:12:01.100 --> 00:12:06.700 "The motto has to be: Integration courses for everybody," said Treibel in a conference in Rostock. 00:12:07.709 --> 00:12:15.829 Immigration is an important element of modern societies, emphasized the sociologist. 00:12:15.829 --> 00:12:17.990 "Integration is not a cuddling event. 00:12:17.990 --> 00:12:24.000 Conflicts do go with it, however not at such an inflammated level as we have seen in the last months." 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:29.990 Even after several decades, during which Germany was basically an immigration country, 00:12:29.990 --> 00:12:33.540 there are partially significant deficits amongst the natives. 00:12:33.540 --> 00:12:39.230 Too many Germans would seal themselves away from the current changes, without any reason. 00:12:39.230 --> 00:12:45.710 "The fact that people with darker skin can also speak German with a strong regional dialect, 00:12:45.710 --> 00:12:51.110 has still not gotten to many 'old Germans'," criticised Treibel. 00:12:51.110 --> 00:12:54.730 "These cases just do not fit in the category 'foreigner' anymore." 00:13:13.680 --> 00:13:19.860 My colleague and intern Arten Bondarenko, spent holidays in his hometown Petersburg 00:13:20.160 --> 00:13:23.100 And we wanted to know about his travels of course. 00:13:58.100 --> 00:14:05.420 After I have lived in Germany for half a year, I have noticed a lot of things 00:14:05.420 --> 00:14:06.960 while visiting my family 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:08.579 in St. Petersburg. 00:14:08.579 --> 00:14:14.339 In German cities, you can find much more nature than in Russian cities. 00:14:14.339 --> 00:14:17.610 That’s why the air is much more polluted there than in Germany. 00:14:17.610 --> 00:14:22.770 I feel like it’s a shame, but I also think that that’s typical for big cities. 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.500 The traffic situation made me really uncomfortable. 00:14:26.640 --> 00:14:30.020 People need more time to drive to work for example. 00:14:30.020 --> 00:14:31.900 One or two hours all in all. 00:14:31.900 --> 00:14:36.520 But public transportation is much cheaper than in Germany, 00:14:36.520 --> 00:14:42.300 I think that generally people don’t have to travel so far to work in Germany. 00:14:42.300 --> 00:14:47.220 I especially noticed the frequent and loud traffic. 00:14:47.220 --> 00:14:52.700 Here in Augsburg it’s much quieter and there aren’t as many traffic jams. 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:58.220 In comparison to Russia, the prices are almost always lower in Germany 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:04.340 for example: for one shopping trip you need about 20 euros per person, but in Russia, 00:15:04.340 --> 00:15:06.640 that would be 50 euros. 00:15:06.640 --> 00:15:13.900 The people who live in the countryside have almost no chance to change their lives, 00:15:13.900 --> 00:15:15.220 so they are very poor. 00:15:15.220 --> 00:15:22.200 That’s why I want to say that living in German villages is very different 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.180 from living in a Russian village. 00:15:25.690 --> 00:15:30.430 But when it comes to living in big cities, there are almost no differences. 00:15:30.680 --> 00:15:35.840 When you come to Russia as a tourist, you will have problems with the language. 00:15:35.900 --> 00:15:41.860 That’s because people who are over 40 usually don’t speak English 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:46.680 and they become instantly nervous when you talk to them. 00:15:46.680 --> 00:15:52.220 In almost every Russian City, there is a high-quality gourmet restaurant. 00:15:52.220 --> 00:15:58.720 In Germany it’s hard, you have to look it up on the Internet, where to find these. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.480 But we’ve got the same amount of street food as Germans do and the prices are cheaper. 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:08.300 It’s also hard to find cafes and restaurants with ideas and concepts. 00:16:08.300 --> 00:16:14.020 Often, you only get Bavarian traditional cuisine. 00:16:14.020 --> 00:16:17.180 In Russian big cities, like for example St. Petersburg, 00:16:17.180 --> 00:16:22.700 the gastronomy has a special concept or an original idea. For example 00:16:22.700 --> 00:16:23.800 in St. Petersburg 00:16:23.800 --> 00:16:30.000 there’s a cafe, where you can drink your coffee and tea together with a hundred cats. 00:16:30.340 --> 00:16:33.800 Or also varying Loft and Anti-Cafés. 00:16:34.400 --> 00:16:40.220 Anti- Café is a trend, that came from Russia to Europe, a new type of a coffee shop. 00:16:40.220 --> 00:16:46.000 Instead of paying just for the coffee, you pay for the total time that you have spent in the Anti-Cafe. 00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:49.000 No matter how much you have ordered. 00:16:49.280 --> 00:16:53.840 Every customer gets an alarm clock, that has a name on it, 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:54.760 for example 00:16:54.760 --> 00:16:59.000 Rasputin or Puschkin or Anna Karenina or Dostojewski. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:06.660 There’s also lots of fancy prancy options in Moscow, that are very expensive, 00:17:06.660 --> 00:17:11.000 and you won’t be allowed to enter unless you are wearing a suit or a dress worth at least 10.000 euros. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.400 St. Peterburg is more of an artsy city in comparison to Moscow. 00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:16.900 Almost like Hamburg. 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:22.000 You can see even people over 40 riding on rollers and skateboards there. 00:17:22.380 --> 00:17:27.400 But the city is not suitable and I feel uncomfortable. 00:17:27.460 --> 00:17:32.720 In the end I also want to mention, that I noticed, that in St. Petersburg 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:38.000 or in Moscow, fashion and street-fashion is much more important than in Germany. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.920 „yiddish music can truly have no better representer than him”… 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.000 Yoéd Sorek 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:00.320 That’s what the Jury thought too at the awarding of jewish music festival in Amsterdam. 00:18:00.320 --> 00:18:05.540 The price was given to him and also to his grandma Sima, whom he has dedicated a whole CD. 00:18:05.540 --> 00:18:10.140 The woman, who kept singing, as the nazis dragged in a concentration camp… 00:18:10.740 --> 00:18:12.740 Her grandson lives in Augsburg today. 00:18:12.740 --> 00:18:16.300 And the city can really be a little proud of having him here. 00:18:16.300 --> 00:18:20.820 We interviewed him in the Kräutergarden at Rotes Tor in Augsburg. 00:18:20.820 --> 00:18:24.080 A beautiful idyll in the middle of the city. 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:54.780 *Music* 00:18:54.780 --> 00:19:00.620 I was born in Jerusalem, in west Jerusalem 00:19:00.620 --> 00:19:03.730 and I grew up there. 00:19:03.730 --> 00:19:06.039 Like every kid only in Jerusalem. 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:16.471 A city with a bit more of an importance to religion of course, and often 00:19:16.471 --> 00:19:17.471 with tension. 00:19:17.471 --> 00:19:19.460 There’s always some kind of tension. 00:19:19.460 --> 00:19:22.159 I was ten and there was the Iraq war going on back then. 00:19:22.159 --> 00:19:27.870 Saddam Hussein decided to send bombs and we were a bit tense. 00:19:27.870 --> 00:19:36.480 And of course the bus, that I took every day to school, also exploded one time. 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.049 And that’s always embarrassing, of course. 00:19:40.049 --> 00:19:41.049 A bit embarassing. 00:19:41.049 --> 00:19:48.159 I’m a jew, just like any other dude who has a beard or is black or whatever. 00:19:48.159 --> 00:19:52.520 And we share traditions and we also share roots. 00:19:52.520 --> 00:19:58.780 Arabs, arabic countries and Israel are both Semits, yea. 00:19:58.780 --> 00:20:06.630 We are actually all Semits, that’s why it’s sometimes funny when people in Germany say, that muslims are antisemitists 00:20:06.630 --> 00:20:13.390 and that actually isn’t true at all 00:20:13.390 --> 00:20:17.370 and only we know. 00:20:17.370 --> 00:20:21.230 *Musik* 00:20:21.230 --> 00:20:23.670 I was in a children’s choir. 00:20:23.900 --> 00:20:32.380 That was really fun and it taught me a lot about the traditions, we sang 00:20:32.380 --> 00:20:42.890 classical music and we also learned how to use our voices, 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:43.890 that’s where I met the people who taught me. 00:20:43.890 --> 00:20:46.419 For example my singing teacher. 00:20:46.419 --> 00:20:48.570 She was also Bavarian. 00:20:48.570 --> 00:20:49.900 Cilla Grossmeyer. 00:20:49.900 --> 00:20:56.179 She came to Jerusalem after the war and she was simply a singer and even 00:20:56.179 --> 00:21:02.020 sang in the Salzburg Festival a few times. 00:21:02.020 --> 00:21:06.520 And then she lived in Jerusalem and she was my teacher. 00:21:06.540 --> 00:21:12.020 *Musik* 00:21:12.020 --> 00:21:15.560 Well it was the neighbours, who felt it first. 00:21:15.570 --> 00:21:21.640 When I came back from school and climbed the stairs up, I always sang 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.840 and did that passionately and very loudly. 00:21:22.840 --> 00:21:24.679 They noticed that first. 00:21:24.679 --> 00:21:28.210 But then of course my family, mainly my grandma. 00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:33.309 Sima, the survivor of the Holocaust. 00:21:33.309 --> 00:21:37.880 She felt it and was my first supporter. 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:44.770 That’s how I got to piano lessons and so on too. 00:21:44.770 --> 00:21:48.450 That’s where my musical enrichment came from. 00:21:48.450 --> 00:21:51.830 Of course every kid had to play an instrument. 00:21:51.830 --> 00:21:53.840 Yea, that’s the Jewish tradition. 00:21:53.840 --> 00:21:55.600 That’s the picture, yea. 00:21:55.600 --> 00:21:59.000 Everyone goes and tries out an instrument of course. 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:00.860 And that’s what I’ve done too. 00:22:00.860 --> 00:22:04.860 And there are those who stick with it and those who don’t. 00:22:04.860 --> 00:22:11.940 Ich habe mich aber entschieden, dass ich unbedingt ein Musiker werde. 00:22:11.940 --> 00:22:13.640 In Berlin. 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:16.120 When I was 12 years old. 00:22:16.120 --> 00:22:21.840 I was, no, 13 years old, I was 13 years old and I was with the choir in Berlin. 00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:27.340 We sang with the philharmony of Berlin and I had a big solo. 00:22:27.340 --> 00:22:34.500 And on the third evening, they allowed us to stay in the concert hall for the second half. 00:22:34.500 --> 00:22:40.159 And we listened to Marai Pereia, who is also Jewish by the way. 00:22:40.159 --> 00:22:43.539 Abbado and the philharmonists. 00:22:43.539 --> 00:22:49.390 The third concerto from Beethoven, that I played myself ten years later. 00:22:49.390 --> 00:22:55.539 And in that moment I said, that that’s what I want to do, no matter what. 00:22:55.539 --> 00:22:58.000 Musician, singer, that’s my love. 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:22.020 *Musik* 00:23:22.020 --> 00:23:27.380 *Musik* 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:33.060 In Jerusalem, there was my gymnasium and went to the army there. 00:23:33.070 --> 00:23:39.470 That was not such a successful story, because I did not blend in 00:23:39.470 --> 00:23:40.470 at all. 00:23:40.470 --> 00:23:45.360 Then after ten months I said, now I’ve had it and I quit. 00:23:45.360 --> 00:23:53.870 But then I started to study music at the academy in Jerusalem. 00:23:53.870 --> 00:24:01.770 I was about twenty-four then, and I studied piano and singing. 00:24:01.770 --> 00:24:33.990 *Musik* 00:24:33.990 --> 00:24:44.659 Then I went to the Netherlands and Den Haag and I studied there for three years. 00:24:44.659 --> 00:24:48.370 Then I was done there, and I thought okay, I’m going to Italy now. 00:24:48.370 --> 00:24:52.450 Pretty country, and I studied for 3 years there. 00:24:52.450 --> 00:24:58.730 Unfortunately, the opportunities for musicians in Italy aren’t that great. 00:24:58.730 --> 00:25:03.490 And that’s why I decided, I have decided. 00:25:03.490 --> 00:25:05.590 I’m going to Germany. 00:25:05.590 --> 00:25:11.190 *Musik* 00:25:11.190 --> 00:25:13.290 So I’m the only one who lives in Germany. 00:25:13.290 --> 00:25:15.440 My family is still in Israel. 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:22.559 My mom still lives in the same apartment, in which I grew up, in Jerusalem, 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:25.480 not far from Yad vashem. 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:30.770 My dad lives in the mountains near Abu Gosh. 00:25:31.820 --> 00:25:36.580 *Musik* 00:25:36.860 --> 00:25:42.900 As a kid, one comes to Germany and sees, 00:25:42.910 --> 00:25:49.159 that it’s a completely normal city and one is of course excited. 00:25:49.159 --> 00:25:54.190 It was Christmas time and there was the Berlin Christmas market. 00:25:54.190 --> 00:25:58.690 It was so so pretty and beautiful and we enjoyed it. 00:25:58.690 --> 00:26:01.820 You can feel the war from time to time. 00:26:01.820 --> 00:26:06.920 I still remember, that I was so moved by that church. 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:11.360 The bombed church in Berlin. 00:26:11.370 --> 00:26:16.550 And I thought to me, that was the war. 00:26:16.550 --> 00:26:19.270 And I also thought a little. 00:26:19.270 --> 00:26:20.929 They deserved it too. 00:26:20.929 --> 00:26:28.350 I have to say. And I also thought that it’s also nice that it’s still like that. 00:26:28.350 --> 00:26:31.809 Because the people remember, that something like that happened. 00:26:31.809 --> 00:26:34.330 Yes, it did. 00:26:34.330 --> 00:26:36.600 That’s how it is. 00:26:36.600 --> 00:26:45.779 So the history is there, but we live here now and I’m happy that I live here. 00:26:45.780 --> 00:26:51.580 That I have friends here, that I can build bridges, that I have good friends, 00:26:51.580 --> 00:26:52.880 German friends. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:58.180 I feel good in Augsburg and in Germany. 00:26:58.800 --> 00:27:03.700 *Musik* 00:27:03.700 --> 00:27:08.200 When I came to Munich, it was clear to me 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:16.350 that I can work in this city, and create lots of pretty things and 00:27:16.350 --> 00:27:17.670 that’s what I did too. 00:27:17.670 --> 00:27:20.490 Performances in Gasteig, in the synagogue and so on. 00:27:20.490 --> 00:27:23.909 But I wouldn’t want to live there. 00:27:23.909 --> 00:27:34.059 I find that Munich has this kind of strong structure, that isn’t all that polite to new artists, 00:27:34.059 --> 00:27:38.870 immigrants, it’s not easy. 00:27:38.870 --> 00:27:47.940 When you just come to a new country and have to build yourself up from nothing, then it’s difficult 00:27:47.940 --> 00:27:54.470 to feel peaceful and good in a city, of course. 00:27:54.470 --> 00:28:01.230 The city Augsburg is full of peace, and I have to say that I can feel that. 00:28:01.230 --> 00:28:06.330 *Musik* 00:28:06.330 --> 00:28:13.120 I drive to an old music festival and I sing Daulen and Monteverdi, that kind of music. 00:28:13.130 --> 00:28:19.130 That’s all wonderful, but I think that all these branches, and that’s also what my grandma 00:28:19.130 --> 00:28:24.049 thought before too, yea, it was all a well thought programme. 00:28:24.049 --> 00:28:30.590 I learned Schubert and I have the classical basics. 00:28:30.590 --> 00:28:45.340 But my strength, where I can show my personal best, where I can give the best of me. 00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:46.620 To pass it on. 00:28:46.620 --> 00:28:51.960 That’s Yiddish and Jewish music for me. 00:28:51.960 --> 00:29:20.660 *Musik* 00:29:20.660 --> 00:29:25.740 Then I believe, that I know this culture too, 00:29:25.740 --> 00:29:32.100 I try to represent it so nicely as possible and to teach the people, 00:29:32.100 --> 00:29:34.450 what it’s about. 00:29:34.450 --> 00:29:41.169 I think that there are lots of people, who can sing Mozart wonderfully, you don’t need me 00:29:41.169 --> 00:29:42.449 for that. 00:29:42.449 --> 00:29:49.000 But how many people can ... 00:29:49.000 --> 00:30:06.000 *Musik* 00:30:06.100 --> 00:30:09.320 something like this, there’s little people, 00:30:09.330 --> 00:30:12.750 especially in Augsburg, who can sing this nowadays. 00:30:12.750 --> 00:30:17.740 But there’s a few that can: that’s magically beautiful. 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:23.960 You don’t need me for that and that’s why I’m very happy, 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:25.640 that I can do this. 00:30:25.649 --> 00:30:29.889 *Musik* 00:30:29.889 --> 00:30:33.460 My grandma, a survivor of the Holocaust, 00:30:33.460 --> 00:30:39.679 her autobiography is named Simas Lieder (Sima’s songs). 00:30:39.679 --> 00:30:48.039 You can’t separate the story of my grandma and the holocaust and the story of 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.140 my grandma as a singer. 00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:54.860 That’s because singing kept her alive. 00:30:54.860 --> 00:31:04.350 And not only her, but also other people, who were around and also perceived that music 00:31:04.350 --> 00:31:07.080 for themselves, so they sang together. 00:31:07.080 --> 00:31:12.350 Yea, there were no big performances, like there were some, but they were collective. 00:31:12.350 --> 00:31:15.350 The music gave the people a lot of strength. 00:31:15.350 --> 00:31:18.870 And she tells, how she sings. 00:31:18.870 --> 00:31:33.450 On one page, there were the songs from the Holocaust, one of them is Ponar over the woods. 00:31:33.450 --> 00:32:09.750 The battlefield next to her hometown Vilnius/Wilna. 00:32:09.750 --> 00:32:20.850 *Musik* 00:32:20.850 --> 00:32:25.140 I think the holocaust still lives on inside of me. 00:32:25.149 --> 00:32:32.950 With movies and with the stories, my grandma didn’t tell me the most horrible stories directly, 00:32:32.950 --> 00:32:38.880 it wasn’t like: The man took me like this and like and did this and I saw 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:41.170 my mother set on fire. 00:32:41.170 --> 00:32:46.090 Things like that, that really happened, yes, but she didn’t tell it so brutally, because 00:32:46.090 --> 00:32:49.250 she knew that I was a grandkid, I was too young. 00:32:49.250 --> 00:32:53.880 *Musik* 00:32:53.880 --> 00:33:00.140 The origins of Jewish music lies 00:33:00.150 --> 00:33:05.190 even before the time of the big prophet David. 00:33:05.190 --> 00:33:08.880 David and Salomon, Schlomo. 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:18.950 They were, yea, they played and they had the psalms and I think that that’s real. 00:33:18.950 --> 00:33:30.200 One has the connection, there is one. And one can see it in the synagogue music, 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:33.880 for example, what is sung in JomKippur. 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:37.380 Day of the reconciliation like: 00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:50.179 *Musik* 00:33:50.179 --> 00:33:51.499 And so on. 00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:56.800 That’s all the origins of that music. 00:33:56.800 --> 00:34:03.890 When you talk about David, all three religions meet, yeah, 00:34:03.890 --> 00:34:05.000 it belongs to us all. 00:34:05.100 --> 00:34:57.300 *Musik* 00:34:57.300 --> 00:35:00.340 It’s just as old as music itself. 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.120 And the song is about the old Kashe. 00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:07.240 The old question. 00:35:07.240 --> 00:35:09.080 Jabibibibam? 00:35:09.080 --> 00:35:11.850 And the other replies: Dabibibidam. 00:35:11.850 --> 00:35:19.420 And the whole idea is, that there are infinite questions, that we all ask. 00:35:19.420 --> 00:35:20.560 Where does that go? 00:35:20.560 --> 00:35:22.150 Why does the sun exist? 00:35:22.150 --> 00:35:23.570 Why does rain exist? 00:35:23.570 --> 00:35:30.230 And that belongs to us all and it has nothing to do with jewish or not jewish. 00:35:30.230 --> 00:35:35.590 *Musik* 00:35:35.590 --> 00:35:39.620 Music has the ability to connect people. 00:35:39.620 --> 00:35:41.840 People from different cultures. 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:52.040 Be it Germans, Syrians, Israelis, Turkmenistan or whatever. 00:35:52.040 --> 00:35:56.820 Music is able to connect people through their souls. 00:35:57.420 --> 00:36:00.480 I will leave the politics to the politicians. 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.630 They make it bad anyways. 00:36:02.630 --> 00:36:09.150 And I won’t probably convince them to do it better, because they have to 00:36:09.150 --> 00:36:10.470 do their jobs. 00:36:10.470 --> 00:36:14.640 So I will leave the politicians to do their jobs. 00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:22.050 I would really like to build bridges between the refugees and Germans 00:36:22.050 --> 00:36:28.510 and Israelis and my instrument to do that would be singing. 00:36:28.510 --> 00:36:43.630 *Musik* 00:36:57.420 --> 00:37:03.740 Though the humans like to think of themselves as the most intelligent, even as the only intelligent life form in the universe, 00:37:03.740 --> 00:37:08.630 in the last 2000 years, they still did not manage to establish peace on this planet. 00:37:08.630 --> 00:37:13.052 Instead, it has recently come to a point where they work on 00:37:13.052 --> 00:37:16.470 annihilating not only themselves and other life forms, but also the whole planet. 00:37:16.470 --> 00:37:21.120 How many resources, what a capital of powers we waste senselessly. 00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:26.520 And how banal the things that we choose to occupy ourselves with: Politicians stir us up. 00:37:26.520 --> 00:37:31.610 One yaps something about football playing ministrants, that in spite of their right religion 00:37:31.610 --> 00:37:36.560 still shall not belong here, and even strongly insists on the exact reproduction 00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:37.780 of his valuable contribution. 00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:43.550 The other fables about the racist term "völkisch" (national)that has been implemented by the Nazis 00:37:43.550 --> 00:37:45.320 and tries to make it socially acceptable again. 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:51.240 And one other politician also reaches in the old Nazi language and speaks of "Umvolkung", a population shift. 00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:58.690 What she means with that is clear: she feels there are too many foreigners here, that are destroying our noble race. 00:37:58.690 --> 00:38:01.420 Yes, being right-wing is once again “in” now. 00:38:01.430 --> 00:38:03.700 Even in the well paid Bundestag (house of representatives). 00:38:03.700 --> 00:38:10.710 In the first 9 monts of 2016 more than 1800 politically motivated crimes 00:38:10.710 --> 00:38:12.390 against asylum seekers and refugees have been registered. 00:38:12.390 --> 00:38:20.230 Neonazis and asylum refusers have started fires 80 times, 00:38:20.230 --> 00:38:21.570 the police has counted 7 homicides. 00:38:21.570 --> 00:38:27.070 But despite the massive rise of right-wing violence, the authorities classify only 20 right-wing extremists 00:38:27.070 --> 00:38:28.070 as "dangerous". 00:38:28.070 --> 00:38:30.990 One thing they all got right. 00:38:30.990 --> 00:38:32.660 We need an alternative. 00:38:32.660 --> 00:38:35.100 An alternative to these politicians. 00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:41.070 But also an alternative to corrupt bankers, managers, who defraud and swindle and even want bonus for that, 00:38:41.070 --> 00:38:43.970 instead of of getting locked up. 00:38:43.970 --> 00:38:47.810 An alternative to officials, who only care about multiplying their fortunes, 00:38:47.810 --> 00:38:52.040 and paying as little taxes as possible. 00:38:52.040 --> 00:38:57.800 We need an alternative to Heckler & Koch, MTU, Diehl Defence, Krauss-Maffei, 00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:02.420 who are protecting their own interests, and do not care about the pacification of war conflicts 00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:03.420 at all. 00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:07.160 They earn millions in Syria and Yemen, and the people do not matter to them. 00:39:07.160 --> 00:39:14.020 We need an alternative to this inhuman, selfish, materialistic way of thinking. 00:39:14.020 --> 00:39:19.350 The Right Livelihood Award, the so-called alternative Nobel prize 00:39:19.350 --> 00:39:24.950 shows the whole world an alternative: Thank you, government-criticizing turkish newspaper "Cumhuriyet". 00:39:24.950 --> 00:39:30.780 It was awarded for "their undaunted investigative jornalism and their unconditional confession of 00:39:30.780 --> 00:39:35.870 freedom of speech despite opression, censoring, imprisonment and death threats," 00:39:35.870 --> 00:39:38.420 explained the foundation. 00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:43.480 "At a time, where freedom of speech in Turkey is being increasingly endangered, 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:48.020 Cumhuriyet proves, that the voice of democracy can not be silenced." 00:39:48.020 --> 00:39:52.150 Thank you, to the aid organisation Syria Civil Defence. 00:39:52.150 --> 00:39:58.150 For engagement in saving civilians in the Syrian civil war, the organisation White Helmets 00:39:58.150 --> 00:40:01.090 has been awarded the alternative Nobel prize. 00:40:01.090 --> 00:40:07.680 Thank you, human rights advocate Mozn Hassan from Egypt and your organisation "Nazra". 00:40:07.680 --> 00:40:11.930 She recieved the prize "for her commitment for gender equality and women's rights 00:40:11.930 --> 00:40:16.590 while under persistent violence, abuse and discrimination." 00:40:16.590 --> 00:40:22.080 She has also successfully committed to admission of women's rights in the Egyptian 00:40:22.080 --> 00:40:25.180 constitution. 00:40:25.180 --> 00:40:26.860 Thank you, Swetlana Gannuschkina. 00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:33.860 The 74-year-old human rights activist has since 1990 sent more than 50.000 migrants, 00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:39.400 refugees and internally displaced people in Russia free legal support, humanitarian aid 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:41.240 and education offers. 00:40:41.240 --> 00:40:47.080 Thank you, foundation Right Livelihood Award Foundation, 00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:49.380 for awarding this prize annually "for shaping the world for the better".