Imad Karim
Imad Karim (Arabic name عماد كريم; born on June 7, 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-German director, screenwriter and television journalist. He has been based in Southwest Germany since the end of 1977.
Life[edit]
Imad Karim attended school in Beirut and graduated from high school around 1975 to 1976. In the shadow of the Lebanese civil war, which had broken out in April 1975, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut (ALBA).
The course of Karim's studies were turbulent, marked by war-induced interruption and the persecution by local commanders; eventually, the deteriorating security situation in Lebanon forced him to leave his home country. He traveled abroad to Germany, and would claim it as his second home country. Starting in 1977, he studied media sciences and social sciences in Berlin, Mainz and Mannheim and graduated with a Master's degree in 1987. From 1987 to 1991, he financed his livelihood by serving as an Arabic translator in his adopted country.
In October 1991, three months after the end of the Lebanese civil war, he returned to his homeland as one of the first directors and shot the film "The Mendacious Mythen of My War". The shooting was overshadowed by a mine explosion, where 26-year-old director Noha Almasri lost her right leg, acknowledged by a message at the end of the film.
Career[edit]
From 1992, Karim worked for ARD, ZDF and WDR (three German broadcasting companies) in various positions, as a freelance TV journalist, film author and director. In the following years, he traveled to several crisis areas in the Middle East and reported, among other things, ARD, ZDF and some private individuals, mainly from Lebanon and the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Karim realized the main part of his television documentaries and film projects for Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Cologne. From 1993 onward, he produced a series of documentaries, reports and film essays at home and abroad (Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Turkey, Ghana, Switzerland, as a TV author, director and producer on behalf of the WDR television, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Philippines and Hong Kong). His films were broadcast on TV stations WDR, HR, BR, MDR, ORB, SR, SWR, NDR, 3Sat, Phoenix and the first ARD program.
Imad Karim was a member of various film juries and was awarded several television prizes.[1] Since 2001, he has directed the film production company Strong Shadow Media, which he also founded.
On April 14, 2017, the social media company Facebook blocked Imad Karim's account without any stated reason, disabling his access to the 139 groups he administered. Some people saw this as a reaction to Karim's criticism of certain religions and to the refugee policy of the federal government as well as to "presuming obedience" against an initiative of Germany's Federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas on the stricter control of the social media. After protests and solidarity notices, the account was restored on 16 April 2017 without explicit comment.[2][3][4][5]
Movie genre[edit]
The film documentation of Imad Karim deals primarily with people and individual destinies. While his first productions are characterized by surrealistic influences, further film projects are characterized by authentic, yet restrained observation.
In some cases, Karim tried to accompany his protagonists, which were often real people with background stories, using the camera for as long as possible. For his film, "Beate von Pückler", he needed three years of observation.
Filmography[edit]
- Then Go to the Wrong Paradise
- Sabera, Daughter of the Desert
- Dorle, the Forest Fairy
- The Goat Queen
- Jochen, God's lonely fighter
- Marashah - The Space Witch
- Carola, the Belly Dancer from the station
- Udo, the Court Jester
- Wanderer Through the Ages
- Frank, the Star Fighter
- Sabrina, the Flying Punk
- Eva Vargas, the Gentle Rebel
- Motamedi, the Cosmic Message
- All Inclusive, One Journey - Two Views
- Hurray, the Countess comes, or how the East is glued
- Hearts on travel
- Stations of Longing
- I'm looking for you, I'm not looking for you, singles
- My great-grandfather, Muhammad Ali
- People close up: Germany - Ghana and Back (Charly is looking for his home)
- Buddy Charly
Prizes and awards[edit]
- The Freiburg Public Prize, 1993
- Civis Media Prize for Integration, 1995[6]
- Prix Iris Netherlands, 1996
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Imad Karim - Free Values
- ↑ Imad Karim Deleted on Facebook
- ↑ Kathrin Sumpf: Facebook löscht vollständiges Profil von Islamkritiker Imad Karim, Epoch Times
- ↑ Roland Tichy: Imad Karim auf Facebook gelöscht, Tichys Einblick
- ↑ Hamed Abdel-Samad: Hamed Abdel-Samad zum Fall Imad Karim. Ein Aufruf., Achse des Guten
- ↑ http://www.journalistenpreise.de/?id=gewinner&pid=54
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