Event Intro

MIT German Studies Fall Film Series – Die Arier/The Ayrans. The film is in German with English subtitles.

Book author and filmmaker Mo Asumang was Germany’s first Afro-German TV moderator and has worked as moderator, producer, director, actress and public speaker.

For many years, she has been a vocal activist against racism. Her activism was sparked by a death threat by a Neo-Nazi punk band which led her to create a series of films exploring her identity as a Black German.

In Die Arier/The Aryans, Mo Asumang embarks on a personal journey to uncover what lies behind the idea of “the master race”. She goes to so-called Aryans at Nazi-demonstrations in Germany, meets with globally notorious racists in the USA and encounters the Ku Klux Klan.

Mo Asumang approaches the issue of racism with courage and in new ways, advocating for integration and reconciliation. Her work deeply reflects themes of courage and the quest for social justice.

Screening of the 2014 film, Die Arier/The Ayrans

Wednesday, September 18, 2024. 7-9 p.m. at the MIT 2-190

Screening of the 2014 film, Die Arier/The Ayrans (Mo Asumang, 2014). Free and open to the public.

Introduction and commentary by 

  • Mo Asumang, Book author, filmmaker and Germany’s first Afro-German TV moderator and has worked as moderator, producer, director, actress and public speaker.
  • Dagmar Jaeger, GL Senior Lecturer in German.

Film synopsis  – Trailer

A documentary in which an African-German gets to he bottom of right-wing movements worldwide – and their completely wrong interpretation of “Aryanism” – a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race established by the French philosopher Gobineau, It went on with the Nazis, and  still promotes hate and racial murders today. Filmmaker Mo Asumang sets out for a tour de force into the abyss of the political evil in Germany and the US. She travels to places where the real Aryans originally came from an area which is now part of Iran.THE ARYANS is a personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest.

 

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