E07 Hans-Jürgen Neumann — Reclaiming Spaces with Capoeira

As an activist and later a church employee, Hans-Jürgen Neumann helped shape society in Thuringia before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In episode 7 of Kampfgefuehl, he describes this engagement and the role Capoeira played in it.

He confronted the far-right radicalism of the 1990s with a face-to-face educational approach. Capoeira and early figures in the scene helped bring new impulses to eastern Germany and keep spaces from being surrendered to fear and violence.

This short description is based on the information accompanying the original episode on YouTube.

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