OMULAULE HEISST SCHWARZ
Deutschland 2003 – Director: Susanne Radelhof, Beatrice Möller und Nicola Hens – Original language: German – Subtitles: None – Length: 66 min.
"For the whites we are blacks. And for the blacks we are Germans." In 1979 over 400 children were brought from Namibia to Eastern Germany. In 1990, after the iron curtain fell, they were sent back to an alien “home country”.
Today the DDR-children of Namibia look back on their childhood in a state that no longer exists. They remember life between traditional West-African dances and the salute of the Jungpioniere, communist Germany’s youth organisation.
Omulaule means "black" in Oshiwambo, the language spoken in Namibia. This is what they call themselves, but this is not what they are often regarded as. Many of their countrymen call them Germans. Feeling at times like chameleons, these young Namibians still search for a home inside themselves, something to hang onto in their own lives, which resemble an experiment more than a biography.
Writer: Beatrice Möller/Nicola Hens, Susanne Radelhof. Camera: Nicola Hens, Susanne Radelhof. Sound: Susanne Radelhof. Editing: Nicola Hens, Susanne Radelhof, Beatrice Möller. Production: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Producer: Fakultät Medien.
