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Emma Biermann
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Anna-Maria Friedrich
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Born in Thuringia in 1991, Anna currently lives between Leipzig, where she is about to finish her bachelor degree in Arabic Studies, and the local East German Hinterland.
Her main field is documentary film, Arabic cultures and language, and sustainable communities and cultural projects in rural areas, especially in the former GDR. During her studies in Leipzig, she was engaged in refugee support in Leipzig. In Autumn 2019, Anna's debut documentary about a Swedish farmer "Coming off the Real Time, for a While" premiered at the International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Leipzig. Anna has worked in documentary film, media youth education, lizard protection, kitchens, bars, and eco-food-shops. She often travels around in her yellow bus, which she also uses for filmmaking. Her other activities and engagement range from art projects in the countryside and journalistic writing, to research on topics such as collective power, sustainable community projects, architecture, and traveling cultures in present-day Europe. Another question she has been especially preoccupied with is connecting rural or worker's communities with urban or academic communities by means of film, art, and dialogue.
Sophia Gessner
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Sophia is a third semester student of political science and sociology at the university of Würzburg and a human rights activist. As such she isespecially involved with Amnesty International. She currently leads the local student’s group and is part of the coordination group on European human rights issues as well. As she is especially interested in EU and international politics and as she considers the European migration politics in many regards a disaster, she is also involved in the local initiative of the grassroots movement Seebrücke which is campaigning for secure escape routes, decriminalization of sea rescue and a humane accommodation of refugees. Therefore, human rights work is her core activism – besides public relations activities she is especially experienced in human rights education, particularly due to the workshops we are giving in the frame of the activities of our student’s group. As to climate issues, climate justice cannot be thought without the protection of human rights. As a member of the Green Youth and the Green Student’s Group elected to the student’s council I try to bring forward sustainable development as extensively as possible – however, I consider myself rather a civil society activist than a party political one.
Felix Heilmann
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Felix has been active in the climate movement for six years, which he first joined as an activist with Young Friends of the Earth Germany. During his studies at the University of Oxford, he became President of the Oxford Climate Society, which brings together students, academics and climate professionals to think about and act on the climate crisis. Currently, he is working as a Researcher for E3G, an international climate politics think tank, based in Berlin. His work focuses on “Just Transition”, that is, the design and realization of socially just climate policies. Previously, he has worked for a Member of the German Parliament and a major trade policy campaign. In his free time, he enjoys reading, listening to music, travelling, and the occasional TV series. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Nabil Abo Nasser
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Magda Katharina Stolla
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Katharina (born 1998) is studying Meteorology at the University of Hamburg and is working at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. In that context, she is participating in the international field campaign EUREC⁴A among other things, studying tropical clouds and their impact on climate change. During an exchange semester, Katharina Stolla studied Arctic Climate Sciences in Svalbard where she organized climate strikes and worked together with local climate activists.
Katharina is working with "Action Reconciliation/Service For Peace" on peace education and Holocaust remembrance since she did a volunteering service in a Belgian museum on Holocaust and human rights, working with school groups and people with migration background in particular. She is an active member of Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN and its youth organization GRÜNE JUGEND, was member of the executive committee in Hamburg and is still member of several committees on state and federal level.
Clara Sünskes Thompson
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Clara is an environmental activist and community-organiser. She has organised protests for sea-rescue NGOs, co-founded Extinction Rebellion Leipzig and is currently a press spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion Germany. During her studies at the University of Leipzig she‘s been a DAAD scholarship holder and worked as a teaching assistant for the Departement of Cultural Sociology. Currently, she is writing her bachelor thesis on the media discourse of „Fridays For Future“ in Germany. She presented some of her findings at the IPB- conference on social movements in November. She has been an intern at Rutgers WPF, a women's advocacy NGO in Jakarta, and set up the Zero Waste Advocate Network, a project of the SHRUB Co-op in Edinburgh. She is currently working as a group facilitator for the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung, giving courses on Asylum law and the EU.
Karolin Tuncel
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Karolin Tuncel, b. 1997, is a Berlin-based political science student and human rights activist. Since 2014, she has been working on asylum and migrants’ rights in Germany, being a founding member of the NGO Fallschirm Mensch in her hometown Mainz. Karolin has been co-leader of the Amnesty International group at Freie Universität Berlin, where she has organized numerous panels and events on human rights issues. Furthermore, Karolin gives workshops about gender, women*’s rights, and discrimination.
As a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholar and supported by several additional scholarships, Karolin has studied in Berlin, Cairo, and Reims. Her focus is International Relations, and she is particularly interested in migration, identities and emotions in politics, and in peace and conflict. Karolin has gained work experience by working at the Petitions Committee and the Central Administration of the German Bundestag, as well as through internships, e.g. at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Canada.
Tilman Versch
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Clara Winkler
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Daniela Wuester
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