Actress Julia Richter has appeared in dramas such as the Oscar-nominated film "Raju" and starred alongside Annette Frier in the series Ella Schön, which was filmed on the Darß. Anuka Maria Lässig won first prizes at the national music competition "Jugend musiziert" in 2016, 2018 and 2019
A better world starts with each individual
Kinship is an obligation. This is especially true if you are the grandson of a man who stood for non-violence and gentleness like no other political pioneer. But the young Arun Gandhi was no model student in this respect; he was notorious for his fits of rage and was repeatedly involved in fights. When he was twelve years old, his parents no longer knew what to do; they sent him to the Sevagram Ashram in central India to live with his grandfather. Over the next two years, he learned to see the world anew in his grandfather's care. Mahatma Gandhi taught him the most important lessons of life, a legacy that Arun shares with us in this book. Together with him, the reader penetrates questions about truth, waste, loneliness and family - and how to deal with anger.
Mahatma Gandhi changed the world with his teachings. His idea of resistance through civil disobedience and non-violence inspired thousands, including Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.
"We should not be ashamed of our anger. It is a very good and very powerful thing that motivates us. But what we should be ashamed of is the way we misuse it."
Mahatma Gandhi
Arun Gandhi, born in 1934, is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi. For thirty years he worked as a journalist for the 'Times of India' and also wrote for the 'Washington Post'.
Arun Gandhi is President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute and regularly speaks on the practices of peace and non-violence. He lives in Rochester, New York.
Mahatma Gandhi's teachings on peace have changed the world.
His grandson Arun shows how important his grandfather's lessons are for us today, at a time when violence is once again omnipresent and often perplexing. He shows us that those who answer anger with anger, reproach with reproach, cannot change the world - or in Gandhi's words:
"An eye for an eye - and the whole world will be blind."
About Julia Richter
Julia Richter was not yet seven years old when she first heard the lure of the stage. "I saw the famous GDR clown Ferdinand and really wanted to play with him". This wish was soon fulfilled and little Julia immersed herself in the fairytale world of scenery and fabulous characters. "Life backstage, the laws of the theater, adults who don't grow up - I think I fell in love with all of that," she says today.
Julia Richter has been on stage in the Friedrichstadtpalast children's ensemble for almost ten years since she was a child. This was followed by professional acting training. Immediately afterwards, the Berlin native began
Berlin-born actress began filming immediately afterwards, but continued to act in theater (including at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Volkstheater Munich, Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg), playing roles such as "Sabina Spielrein", "Effi Briest" and "Maria Stuart".
For several years, she has been working with musicians on various scenic musical evenings, including on Usedom at the Benz Chamber Music Festival.
She made her breakthrough in her first professional year in 1995 with her leading role as lesbian 'Kati' in "Kommt Mausi raus?". Since then, Julia Richter has become a permanent fixture in the cinema and TV landscape.
Julia Richter has been able to show many different faces, appearing in dramas such as the Oscar-nominated film "Raju" and in numerous crime thrillers, including years as the commissar's wife in Schwerin's Polizeiruf 110. Julia Richter also likes comedy, such as in the movie "Sushi in Suhl", the ZDF comedy "Der Klügere zieht aus" or alongside Annette Frier in the successful series "Ella Schön", in which two very different women try to master a special patchwork situation.
Alongside her own acting, she has been a passionate teacher for many years. She has directed her first plays for film and theater, and Julia Richter is also enthusiastic about this work.
She uses her training in the school subject "Happiness" for personal development and psychological well-being and as a movement teacher of the Franklin Method®. Both flow into her own play and into her work with other people.
For Julia Richter, playing and working with people means listening, staying open and moving. Through the Ella Schön shoot, she fell in love with Fischland-Darß again, became an ambassador for the Darß Nature Film Festival and is now delighted to be in Ahrenshoop with Arun Gandhi's "Anger is a Gift".
Anuka Maria Lässig was born in Berlin and began her cello training at the age of three with Sybille König at the "Bela Bartok" music school in Berlin Pankow.
She played her first public concert in Niederschönhausen Palace at the age of four. She played her first concert as a soloist with orchestra at the age of 9.
Since the age of 10 she has been taking lessons with Prof. Kleif Carnarius, the solo cellist at the Komische Oper Berlin, who is still her teacher today, and a year later became a student at the Hanns Eisler School of Music and the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School in Berlin, where she continued her school and musical education.
Anuka Maria won first prizes at the national music competition "Jugend musiziert" in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
She plays a Viennese cello from the second half of the 18th century.
