What does it really mean to be black in Germany? A multimedia project takes a closer look at a touchy subject and concludes that it's time to get rid of prejudices and tackle racism.
Marie Nejar is a slender, elegant, dynamic 85-year-old lady with a pronounced Hamburg accent. She wears a black dress with a white lace collar, just like many other German women her age.
"I'm a typical German, I was raised like a Prussian by my dear grandmother," she says with a mischievous smile. Marie Nejar is one of the 10 Afro-Germans the filmmakers Laurel and Jermain Raffington portray in their "Black Red Gold" project.
Nejar's grandmother fell in love with a Creole man from Martinique, and her upper-middle-class family cast her out. Marie Nejar's father was a ship steward from Ghana. She grew up in Hamburg's St. Pauli neighborhood, and thanks to many Germans who accepted and protected her, she survived the Nazi era.
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