PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
June 24, 1999
PRO ASYL appeals to the Supervisory Board
of ZDF (Second German TV):
Do preserve the intercultural series „Schwarz-Rot-Bunt“!
ZDF Dementi „a second class burial“
- PRO ASYL appelliert an Fernsehrat des ZDF: „Schwarz-Rot-Bunt“ erhalten!
Dementi des ZDF „Beerdigung zweiter Klasse“ - PRO ASYL appeals to the Supervisory Board of ZDF (Second German TV): Do preserve the intercultural series „Schwarz-Rot-Bunt“!
ZDF Dementi „a second class burial“
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As „a second class burial“ described Heiko Kauffmann, spokesperson of the Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL, the ZDF dementi, to plan the removal of the Saturday intercultural series „Schwarz-Rot-Bunt“ („Black-Red-Coloured“). According to ZDF it is merely planned to integrate the series into a weekend magazine. „If one wishes to finish a programme off, then by levelling its subjects and grinding off the identity in a ‚No name-weekend magazine“, said Kauffmann.
PRO ASYL appeals to the ZDF Supervisory Board meeting on Friday, to cancel the decision and to preserve the programme „Schwarz-Rot-Bunt“ in its present shape.
The programme has become a trademark of the intercultural dialogue in the German TV landscape by the selection of subjects, their presentation with regard to the voices of migrants and refugees, by exchange and information, continued Kauffmann. In a society, in which the rejection of foreigners, their exclusion and racism are still far common, the media – especially those under public law – are of great importance in communicating programmatically human rights, the principles of tolerance and living together.
