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Gott und die Welt: Out of misery – The fight of a German woman against the escape from poverty

Nomination 2018
European CIVIS Television Prize – information

Author:Antje Schneider
Editorial:Markus Schall (WDR)
Direction:Antje Schneider
Producer:Anja Krußig, Jan Siegmeier (Werkblende)
Documentary, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR/ARD/Das Erste), Werkblende

Content
In 2007, social worker Jenny Rasche accompanies the German humanitarian transport to SibiuHermannstadt in Rumania. In the outskirts, she discovers 20 Roma families, crammed together in slum. She wants to help and founds a charity organisation at home in the Harz and moves to Rumania with her family shortly thereafter. She takes the children out of the slum and sends them to a special class for Roma children that she has founded. A day centre is also established. After nearly eight years of intensive work, success becomes visible.

Excerpt from the jury’s statement
A story about an heroic, unusual woman – exemplary, terrific.


social cohesion    Sinti and Roma   


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