Urban Mining - The City as an Everlasting Source of Raw Materials

In this edition: A bitter row about a possible over-diagnosis of mental illness, a caravan of hope marches on Washington to protest immigration policy and renewed interest in Chancellor Merkel's role in the communist youth movement.

It’s apparent everywhere - Germany is growing increasingly diverse. But even today Sezen Tatlici is often marked as a "foreigner”, even though she’s a German citizen. To raise awareness about the situation of second- and third-generation children of immigrants, she founded the multicultural association "Typisch Deutsch” - or "Typically German”.

Award-winning South African cinematographer and filmmaker Michael Hammon’s latest film Gold profiles three paralympians who took part in the London Paralympics. Hammon grew up in Johannesburg and came to Berlin in the 1980s to study film. Now he’s teaching the next generation of budding movie makers as professor at the renowned film and television academy in Potsdam Babelsberg.