POELER LUFT

Massiamy Diaby is a freelance artist based in Berlin. Born in Frankfurt am Main, she grew up on the Baltic Sea island of Poel, in Berlin and in Accra. In 2020, she completed her acting studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. She works as an actress, develops her own theater performances, realizes film projects and writes poetry. Her short film POELER LUFT was shown at the Afrika Film Festival in Cologne and the AfryKamera Festival in Warsaw. Massiamy's works aim to dismantle power structures and convey political themes as emotional experiences. This year she is a member of the competition jury.

Joanna Peprah is the spokesperson for the Cologne local group and an advisor to the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e. V. (ISD) and co-founder of the "N-Wort Stoppen" initiative. In 2022, she was appointed to the Expert:innengremium (Post)Colonial Heritage of Cologne. In 2023, she was awarded the Cologne Volunteer Award for Democracy and Diversity.

Phyllis Quartey is mother, activist, educational consultant and a poet. She deals with the issues of anti-racism, colonialism and empowerment in the initiatives “N-Wort Stoppen”, “Decolonize-Wuppertal” and in various workshops. Her main concern is to enable a critical examination of the history of colonialism and its effects until today.

In 1986, at the age of 4, Molley fled the civil war in Liberia for Germany. There, in the late 1990s, he discovered hip-hop. It's not only musically that he takes a clear stand against racism, sexism, homophobia, hatred and violence, he's also an active member of the N-Wort Stoppen Initiative and cooperates with other initiatives.