Interview with Lennart (2016)
Single-channel video
16:24min running time, colour, sound

IN COLLABORATION WITH RICHARD COOKE

SUPPORTED BY SBS AUSTRALIA PUBLIC BROADCASTERS

Credits:
Journalist:
- Richard Cooke
Fixer:
- Sarah Rudolf
Translation:
- Henning Pfieffer (Live)
- Samira Damato (Transcription)
- Florian Cramer (Additional transcription)
- Peter Sattler (Additional transcription)
Camera:
- Seecum Cheung
- Laurens Verwoest


Seecum Cheung has been conducting a series of interviews to study the rise of right-wing radicalism within Europe, featuring footage collected from Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, Denmark, Belgium and the UK.

Her film 'Interview with Lennart' is the first chapter of a larger project, which focusses on a key interview with Lennart Schwarzbach, a young candidate for the German political party the NPD, which is known to attract neo-Nazis’ as part of their followers.The interview conducted in October 2015 (in Harburg, Germany) questions the candidate’s stance upon the current immigration crisis, and his views on racial solidarity, oppression, and multiculturalism.

This interview was conducted in collaboration with writer and journalist Richard Cooke, and supported by SBS public broadcasters.