Complete call
Dear Ms. Groots!
Over the past 20 years, thousands of Afghan activists, journalists, and cultural workers, including filmmakers, photographers, writers, artists, and theater professionals, have helped build Afghan civil society. Sometimes they are trained and promoted by Western institutions. Now, after the withdrawal of Western troops and the seizure of power by the Taliban, these men and women are facing serious death risks and are threatened by Islamist suppression and terror. We can’t let them down! You believe in terms of freedom of art and freedom of opinion. They are our local cultural workers and now rely on our protection and solidarity-not just verbal.
Dear Ms. Groots! It is also your business to issue German protection pledges to this group of people. Use a secure email address to establish an official contact point to quickly collect and process visa and exit applications from these people, which will become your business. Please ensure that these artists and cultural workers can leave the country safely. Your life is at stake, time is of the essence!
List of signatories:
Director Julia Afifi
Ali Samadi Ahadi, director and producer
Züli Aladag, director, writer and producer
Asfa-Wossen Asserate, writer and political analyst
Alida Asman, cultural scientist
Jan Asman, cultural scientist
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Jonathan Baker, publisher
Marcus Burgers, writer and musician
Jan Boss, director
Nora Bosson, writer
Siv Bublitz, publisher
Andrea Büttner, artist
Carlo Chatrian, Berlin International Film Festival
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, public relations staff
Roberto Chuley, director
Chaya Chernovin, composer
Thomas Demand, artist
George Dietz, publicist
Director Doris Dory
Ulrike Drasner, writer
Daniela Dröscher, writer
Yilmaz Dziewior, Ludwig Museum
Ulrich Edschmid, writer
Kevin John Eduser, director
Lujie Engels, director
Carolin Emcke, public relations staff
Max Färberböck, director
Samuel Finzi, actor
Martina Gerdeck, actress
Kerstin Gleba, publisher
Julika Griem, Director of the Institute of Culture
Olga Griasnova, writer
Gina Haller, actor
Nicklaus Hanson, Harbor Literature Festival
Joseph Haslinger, writer
Vinzenz Hediger, film scholar
Felicitas Hope, writer
Daniel Kelman, writer
Navid Kermany, writer
Barbara Clem, photographer
Eva Klaus, Director of the German Federal Art Museum
Michael Kruger, writer
Antje Kunstmann, publisher
Nina Kunzendorf, actress
Root Leeb, writer
Jo Lendle, publisher and writer
Verena Lueken, public relations staff
Michael Rudds, writer
Jonas Luscher, writer
Joachim Lux
Director Angelina Macarone
Eva Mattes, actress
Ulrich Maters, actor and director of the German Film Academy
Steffen Mau, sociologist
Kat Menschik, illustrator
Martin Moszkowicz, film producer
Barbara Mundel, head of the Munich Indoor Theater
Matthias Mullin, Lenbachhaus
Herta Muller, writer
Michael Nauman, Dean of Barenboim Said College
Isolde Olbaum, photographer
Marcel Odenbach, video artist
Albert Ostermeier, writer
Thomas Ostermeier, Director of the Schabien Art Museum in Berlin
Stephen Otney, director
Susanne Pfeffer, Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art
Hans Preschinski, writer
Milo Law, director
Oliver Rees, Director of the Berlin Ensemble
Mariette Risenbeck at Berlin International Film Festival
Julian Rosefeldt, film artist
Benjamin Sadler, actor
Benedict Savoy, art historian
Ric Schachtebeck, set designer
Rafik Shami, writer
Bernd Scherer, Director of the House of World Cultures
Norbert Shure, writer
Volker Schrondorf, director
Berlin International Literature Festival Ulrich Schreiber
Thorsten Schütte, film producer
Elisabeth Schweeger, Baden-Württemberg Academy of Performing Arts
Johan Simons, Director of Bochum Theater
Thomas Sparr, author and editor
Sasha Stanisic, writer
Tom Stromberg, theater producer
Christoph Terhechte, DOK Director, Leipzig Film Week
Wolfgang Tillmans, photographer
Joseph Vogl, Humboldt University
Felicitas von Lovenberg, publisher
Christiane von Wahlert, Chairman of the Friedrich Wilhelm Munau Foundation
Jan Wagner, poet
Stefan Weidner, writer and Islamic scholar
Donata Wenders, photographer
Director Wim Wenders
Liao Yiwu, writer
Maryam Zaree, actor and director
