A Documentary Series by
Vanessa Schlesier, Ronald Rist
and Antje Boehmert
Additional Camera Knut Schmitz, Sven Klöpper, Eva Beyer, Vanessa Juercke, Herta Mirea, Katharina Schiele
Editor rbb Ute Beutler
Production by DOCDAYS Productions
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban take over power in Afghanistan, two weeks later the last US Air Force plane leaves Kabul. The military evacuation is over. But there are still tens of thousands of people in the country who need an airlift because their lives are in danger as local workers, media professionals, artists or human rights activists. Many of them are hoping for Kabul Luftbrücke (Eng: Airlift) - a small NGO in Berlin founded by a handful of journalists and activists. They decide to evacuate people on their own initiative. Anyone who has been accepted into Germany can turn to the initiative and wait for safe passage to leave Kabul for Pakistan in the shadows of the night.
The series documents how former local forces manage to leave the country, how children who were separated from their parents during the flight hope to be reunited and how young women decide to no longer bow to the Taliban's rules.
From Afghanistan
to Germany
Report by Mirela Delić
Camera Pakistan: Vanessa Juercke
published in German:
Das Erste | Weltspiegel
Frozan and her family were evacuated from Afghanistan to Pakistan in November 2021 by the German organization Kabul Luftbrücke. In Islamabad, I met the women's rights activist who opened in her house a secret school for girls after the Taliban took over.
#abgehoben mit Finch Asozial
#abgehoben mit Wolfgang Bahro
#abgehoben mit Felix von der Laden | von Köln nach Berlin | Interview im Flugzeug
