Enjoy the full video version of our live recording at the Mobile Kino Weekend film festival 2016, with guests including the Bureaucrazy team.
Thanks to videographer Alejandro Prullansky for filming and editing this episode! You can find more of his work at:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIk9WcLBaFzIiBvHdYm5w
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/prullansky
A team of Syrian refugees in Berlin is building an app to help solve the problem of German paperwork. And it’s not just for refugees – all new arrivals in Germany will benefit from the app, which they’ve called Bureacrazy.
The app will allow a user to enter data in their own language, and prints out forms in German. It also gives tips on required documents and office locations.
It’s amazing no one thought to solve this common problem before. Even more amazing is that the Bureaucrazy team had no software development background before they arrived in Germany.
The app’s creators are Ghaith Zamrik, Munzer Khatt ab, Omar Alshafai and Salim Mohammad, all from Syria. They have arrived in Berlin over the past year after fleeing the war in Syria, and have been living in camps in sports halls and hotels across the city.
As they told Radio Spaetkauf recently:
“We started learning coding here in Berlin with the REDI School of Digital Integration. The best way to learn code is to start building an application,” Ghaith said.
In order to launch Bureaucrazy by January 1, the team now needs more support from professional coders and financial backers. You can contact them through their Facebook page.
Listen to their interview on Radio Spaetkauf here.
At our annual outdoor recording in the woods, we interview three Syrian refugees – Ghaith, Omar and Munzer – who have created an app to help deal with German paperwork. It’s called Bureaucrazy. Some rich person out there really give some money to this: https://www.facebook.com/Bureaucrazy.de/
After a glorious weekend of watching movies, watching bands and swimming in the lake, the organizers of the event Joshua and Fernando announce that they need a new name for the festival. The word Weekender is trademarked, can you believe.
Radio Spaetkauf will be recording live at the Mobile Kino Weekender on July 31. Some of our guests will be Syrian refugees who are now living in Berlin. In order to bring them to the festival, we have to cover some costs.
Can you donate €40 to help bring a refugee to the Weekender? After all, festivals should be for all Berliners!
If you can donate, please send us an e-mail to hallo@radiospaetkauf.com. We’ll get back to you with some payment details shortly.
Thanks for your support, and see you at the Weekender!
On this quick update, we talk about the secretive British investment company behind all the problems between punks and police on Rigaer Straße. Daniel thinks the whole scenario could be turned into a musical, possibly called “Henkel’s Leftist Orgy of Violence” after Berlin’s interior minister, who has been embarrassed by a court ruling this week that found the police-assisted eviction at Rigaer Straße 94 to be unlawful.
We also get an update from co-host Jöran Mandik about his attempt to run as a candidate for the upcoming Berlin city elections.
Come along to the Mobile Kino Weekender on July 29-31. It’s a cinematic camping trip out in the woods by a lake. Radio Spaetkauf will be recording a live episode there. Can you sponsor a Syrian refugee to come to the festival? E-mail us if you’re willing to contribute €40: hallo@radiospaetkauf.com
