Enoh Meyomesse

Interview with the poet and human rights activist in the context of »Writers for Freedom«

Interview with the poet and human rights activist in the context of »Writers for Freedom«
Duration
19:23
Category
Interview
Date
05.11.2015
Description

Imprisoned in November 2011 following his candidature for the presidential elections in Cameroon and sentenced to seven years imprisonment at the end of 2012, Meyomesse was unexpectedly freed from the Kondengui Central Prison in Yaoundé in April 2015 and has now received the opportunity to continue his literary activity in Germany in freedom through the Elsbeth-Wolffheim literature grant from the city of Darmstadt and the Writers-in-Exile programme by the German PEN branch.

Video Documentary:

ZKM | Institute for Visual Media

Camera: Martina Rotzal, Christina Zartmann
Editing: Sophia Kessel, Louis Schmitt
Translation: Regina Hock, Sophia Kessel, Marie Rosenkranz