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Side note: Are we all Africans?
In any case, that claimed Meryl Streep at a press conference on the question of why there are no Africans in the Jury would be. Found a Twitter feed in the USA. The German Public, however, remains relaxed.
US actress Meryl Streep, Jury President of this year’s International film festival in Berlin
The Berlinale press conferences are often more slanted than informative. The major networks and Newspapers to grab the Stars in individual interviews, on the mass demonstration in which gather journalists as diverse as the Berlinale film programme itself. Some of the Stars react skillfully and casual to even absurd questions, such as the recent George Clooney of the opening film “Hail, Caesar!” about the film industry of the 1950s. If he already has a Communists had taken, asked a journalist: “Are you one? This whole event here, even full of Communists?” And the assembled journalists laughed.
Meryl Streep, however, seems to be on a Pressefrage around the head and neck talked to have. “Why are no Blacks in the Jury?”, she was at the presentation of the Berlinale-Jury demand. Meryl Streep is the President of the seven-member, expert panel: actor Lars Eidiger from Germany, photographer Brigitte Lacombe from France, actor Clive Owen from England, film Director Malgorzata Szumowska from Poland, actress Alba Rohrwacher from Italy and all-rounder Nick James from England.
#MerylSoAfrican
Women in the majority: Berlinale-Jury, 2016
Divers, but all white. How to talk yourself out of it? Meryl Streep was open to the world: “What I noticed is, is that humanity is a part of every culture. Originally we are all from Africa”. Continued, but then added: “you Know, we are all Berliners. We are all Africans.”
The spreading in the Social media was limited to the infamous Tweetlänge and so on the last set. Instead a differentiated approach was followed by gloating. Under the Hashtag “MerylSoAfrican” were making jokes like “, And after the PK went the blonde, white a millionaire in your BMW for a vegan Lunch.” Others expressed serious criticism: “Genetically has Streep right. Politically and not socially.” And some took the necessary time: “Meryl Streeps quote was taken out of context!”
“Didn’t know”
“Berlinale-Hammer” Streep with festival Director Kosslick
Most of the Tweets circulated in the United States. Also the media was the controversy a short message value. The German Public, however, remained calm. Rather: you noticed the Statement hardly. An article about the Jury President at the Berlin newspaper “Tagesspiegel” called Streep a “Scoop” of this year’s festival, “Berlinale-Hammer”. Almost disturbed by the author with regard to the press conference – not from Streep, but from the colleagues: Whether the Journalist the Quotenfrage after missing Black really meant seriously?
If you ask for German visitors, so know hardly any of the supposedly scandalous remark. “I didn’t know”, so a common answer to this question. And: “This question would you rather head Kosslick questions and not the Jury, through their own choice has not decided.” A real upsetting topic is the statement, probably not.
Rather, it seems like a Hollywood contentious issue across the Atlantic to Berlin geschwappt. Since the announcement of the Oscar nominations, in which no black actor was nominated, in the United States is controversial about diversity in the film industry discussed, among other things, under the Hashtag “OscarsSoWhite”.
This controversy, which is currently a representative for the Chancengleichzeit in the USA, can only be conditional on the Berlinale transfer. The film festival is considered to be particularly diverse. The year’s 434 films come from 77 countries, political themes such as flight have a special place in the program. It is remarkable, rather, that in the Berlinale-Jury of the Berlinale 2016 for the first time, women are in the majority, and that also a woman has the chair. In comparison with other international film festivals, a special feature: “I am very much for gender equality. Our Jury is a sign,” said Streep on this press conference. It was unusual that in a body that will make decisions, women are in the majority would have. “There is the Berlinale at the front.”