Free event. “Headdresses at carnival, childhood games, books sold by the millions for generations: iconic colonial racist imagery such as Karl May’s fictional character Winnetou keeps shaping our distorted images of indigenous North American cultures and histories. Together with author, film maker and psychological counselor Red Haircrow and with Timo Kiesel, film maker (“White Charity” […]
Category: Announcements
Wearable Support for Upcoming #Documentary “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany”
Just a few examples of the different styles and colors available for our Teespring campaign (t-shirts, totes & mugs) Forget Winnetou Film Project (EU Locations). To help gain funds for completing, distributing and advertising our upcoming documentary, while giving supporters a visible way to raise awareness not only on the issue of native stereotyping and […]
My Interview in #DerFreitag March 23rd-On Our #Documentary, Native #Stereotypes & Eurocentric History
In Der Freitag’s print edition, on our upcoming documentary Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany, historical context and how the USA’s deliberate “alternative facts” or Eurocentric fabrication of history contributes to continuing racism, colonialism and oppression of Native Americans. Stereotypes are a symptom of the overall disease. Interview and article by Matthias Dell. […]
My Interview on #Deutschlandradio Kultur Kompressor Radio Show-March 14, 2017
Here’s the direct link to listen online to my interview on Deutschlandradio’s Cultural Radioshow “Kompressor”, sharing news on Native current events and talking about the directing (and currently filming) “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany”. At the webpage, interview in German is at the top. To listen in English, the link is […]
Karl May Museum’s Lastest on Human Remains? WE Decide, Not You. We’re in Control. #Repatriation
A “case study” by Robin Leipold, curator of the Karl May Museum in Radebeul, Germany. Karl May is the German author who created the stereotypical “American Indian” character Winnetou, peopling his dozens of books and later films with fabricated, mythical, heavily distorted “Indians”, but “positive” characters, not the vicious or dumb savages churned out by […]
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