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Klaas Glenewinkel [de]

Panel 3: Media Landscape in Iraq: Friday 2/2, 12:00 @ Studio
Klaas Glenewinkel, born 1970 in Hameln, works as director and producer
of cultural projects since 1987, primarily for Ponton Media Art Lab as
well as in Japan, attending various film and music productions and
founding the English-Japanese cultural magazine Superball. He travelled
to Iraq right after the war in 2003 developing the idea of an autonomous
radio station for youths together with Iraqi students. Together with
Anja Wollenberg he runs media projects in cooperation with Iraqi
journalists and radio stations in Iraq since 2004. The activities
include amongst others a network for the preparation and distribution of
radio reports on the political development in Iraq, a trilingual website
on the constitution process and the elections in Iraq as well as various
publications on the situation and the work of Iraqi cultural workers.