Mo Asumang
{{Short description|German film director, television presenter, voice actor and film producer}}
{{Infobox person
|image=Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis 2012 - Mo Asumang.jpg
|caption=Mo Asumang in 2012
|name=Mo Asumang
|birth_name=Monika Yaa akoma Asumang
|birth_date= 13 June, 1963
|birth_place=Kassel, Germany
|occupation=Presenter, filmmaker, actress and writer
}}
Monika 'Mo
Biography
Asumang was born on 13 June 1963 to a Ghanaian father and German mother.{{Cite news|title=Confronting racism face-to-face|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-27375741/mo-asumang-confronting-racism-face-to-face|access-date=2020-06-10|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2010-06-17|title=Ein anderer Blick auf Südafrika|url=https://www.hna.de/kassel/anderer-blick-suedafrika-808664.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-10|website=Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine|language=de}} She studied Visual Communication at the University of Kassel. Between 1997 and 2000 she presented the television show Liebe Sünde on German TV.{{Cite web|title="Ich bin Globuli für Nazis"|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/mo-asumang-kaempft-gegen-rassismus-ich-bin-globuli-fuer-nazis/13454062.html|access-date=2020-06-10|website=www.tagesspiegel.de|language=de}} She made her directing debut with the documentary Roots Germania, which was nominated for a Grimme-Preis in 2008.{{Cite news|title=Mo Asumang trifft den Klu Klux Klan [sic]|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/die-arier-mo-asumang-trifft-den-klu-klux-klan/9810092.html|access-date=2020-06-10|newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel Online|language=de}}{{Cite news|title=Bislang drei Nachnominierungen beim Grimme-Preis 2015|language=de|url=https://www.grimme-preis.de/presse/pressemeldungen/d/bislang-drei-nachnominierungen-beim-grimme-preis-2015/|access-date=2020-06-10}} Around the Football World Cup 2010, she made a documentary about South Africa called Road to Rainbow - Willkommen in Südafrika.
In 2014, Asumang created the documentary Die Arier (The Aryans). As one of the first black women on German television, she was targeted by racists.{{Cite web|title=A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-15/mixed-race-german-confronts-white-supremacists-face-face-including-klan|access-date=2020-06-10|website=The World from PRX|language=en}} To address racism, she confronted racists in Germany, and travelled to the United States, where she had conversations with Ku Klux Klan members.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Bi-racial filmmaker confronts neo-nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in new documentary 'Aryans'|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/05/30/Bi-racial-filmmaker-confronts-neo-nazis-and-the-Ku-Klux-Klan-in-new-documentary-Aryans/8681401487432/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} The documentary was also nominated for a Grimme-Preis.{{Cite web|last=Gröschl|first=Michael|title=Mo und die Arier – Buchverlosung|date=25 November 2016 |url=https://www.stadtblatt-online.de/kultur/mo-und-die-arier-buchverlosung/|access-date=2020-06-10|language=de-DE}}
In 2016, Asumang wrote a book about her identity search and experiences meeting racists, Neo-Nazis and Ku-Klux-Klan members face to face, titled Mo und die Arier: Allein unter Rassisten und Neonazis (Mo and the Aryans: Alone among racists and Neo-Nazis).{{Cite web|title=Warum Mo Asumang den persönlichen Kontakt zu Rassisten sucht: Allein im Schmelztiegel des Rassismus|url=https://www.kreiszeitung-wochenblatt.de/buxtehude/c-panorama/allein-im-schmelztiegel-des-rassismus_a155489|access-date=2020-06-10|website=Kreiszeitung|date=29 November 2019 |language=de}}
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Category:Film people from Hesse
Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin