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Navina Sundaram

Navina Sundaram (* 1 September 1945 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India; † 24 April 2022 in Hamburg),<ref>Obituary in the FAZ, 14 May 2022, accessed on 19 June 2024.</ref> an Indian-German television journalist, filmmaker and author. From 1964 to 2003, she worked as a political television editor for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and as a foreign correspondent for ARD. She was the first television journalist with a migration background<ref>Navina Sundaram: Grüblerisches zum Thema „Heimat in der Fremde“. In: heimatkunde.boell.de. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, accessed on 18 June 2024.</ref> to present renowned programmes such as Weltspiegel<ref>Navina Sundaram: Migranten und Fernsehen der 70er: Anders als die anderen. In: taz.de. Die Tageszeitung, 13 November 2007, accessed on 18 June 2024.</ref>, extra 3 and Panorama<ref name="Spiegel22">Navina Sundaram, 76. In: Der Spiegel. No. 18, 2022</ref>.

Life

Family, youth and education

Navina Sundaram was born into a well-known Hungarian-Indian family of artists. Her grandfather Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870-1954) was a philosopher, artist and photographer from Punjab. Her aunt Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) was a well-known painter and is considered a pioneer of Indian modernism. Navina Sundaram's brother Vivan Sundaram (1943-2023) was one of the most important contemporary visual artists in India. The siblings’ were raised in an intellectual and cosmopolitan environment, their upbringing shaped by the spirit of the young Indian Republic under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), a secular, parliamentary state that among others gave significant impetus to the Alliance of Non-Aligned Countries.

After completing her schooling at the private The Lawrence School in Sanawar near Simla, Navina Sundaram studied English literature at the University of Delhi.

Sundaram became a German citizen in 1987.<ref name="Taz22">Journalistin Navina Sundaram gestorben. In: tagesspiegel.de. 26 April 2022, accessed on 19 June 2024.</ref>

After her marriage, she temporarily went by the name Navina Sundaram-Rummel.<ref>Andrea Böhm: Kein Zündstoff in der Konsenswolke. In: Die Tageszeitung. 17 December 1991, p. 5 (taz.de [accessed on 18 June 2024]).</ref>

Navina Sundaram died in Hamburg on the night of 25 April 2022 at the age of 76 after a long period of chronic lung disease.<ref>Johann Hinrich Claussen: Nachruf: Eine Welt-Journalistin. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25 April 2022, accessed on 19 June 2024.</ref> <ref name="Taz22"/> <ref name="Spiegel22"/>

Journalistic Career

Navina Sundaram owed her first appearance on German television to a family friend, the then correspondent and head of the ARD television studio in New Delhi, Hans Walter Berg (1916-2003). Although she did not speak a word of German at the time, she presented at Berg's request the series Asian Miniatures produced in India from 1963, learning the texts by heart. She was subsequently invited to attend a two-year training programme for television journalists at NDR in Hamburg. From June 1964, she interned in various departments of the broadcaster, from the Tagesschau newsroom, the television drama department under the direction of Egon Monk to the Nachwuchsstudio<ref>Die Geschichten hinter den Nachrichten. In: ndr.de. NDR, accessed on 26 April 2022.</ref>(young talent studio) of NDR radio under Axel Eggebrecht<ref>Hans-Ulrich Wagner: Axel Eggebrecht und das NDR „Nachwuchsstudio“. In: ndr.de. NDR, 13 July 2011, accessed on 19 June 2024.</ref>

In 1966, she returned to the television studio in New Delhi for almost two years as assistant director and editor. From 1970 until 2004, Navina Sundaram worked as a full time editor at NDR, initially in the current affairs department and later as a foreign correspondent. She then worked as a freelance journalist.<ref name="Spiegel22"/>

In the Taz newspaper, she described how in the 1970s and 1980s women were just exotic figures in the men's club referring to the programme Der Internationale Frühschoppen. The Pakistani journalist Roshan Dhunjibhoy and she alternated as representatives of the other world. To the disappointment of host Werner Höfers, she always appeared in European clothing.<ref>Das Altpapier – Die rücksichtslose Meinungsfreiheit des Stärkeren. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 26 April 2022, accessed on 19 June 2024.</ref>

Thematically, two strands run through Navina Sundaram's entire body of work. On the one hand, she has repeatedly focused on the countries of the Global South, especially on South Asia and Africa, the struggles for independence, the complex processes of decolonisation, but also on the effects of international development aid, the monetary policy of the IMF and World Bank and environmental policy issues. On the other hand, within the domestic political discourse in Germany, Sundaram was interested in the situation of people who had experienced migration, asylum seekers and those affected by everyday racism. She also addressed contemporary political demands for equal rights and the recognition of human rights.

Films, news reports for television shows, Moderations (selection)

Films

• 1967: Bharata Natyam

• 1968: Black man, what now?
• 1970: On the path to bliss
• 1971: Portrait of a Patriot - The Saga of Subhas Chandra Bose 1941-1945
• 1972: So long as there are tears
• 1973: Freedom and its Price
• 1973: Darshan Singh wants to live in Leverkusen
• 1974: Talking, my drug - Singing, my sex…
• 1976: My city, your city
• 1977: Ordered to leave Germany
• 1979: When the welcome speeches fade away
• 1982: Only one of forty
• 1983: Summer guests
• 1989: Behind every curtain...
• 1993: The little slaves - Child Labour in India
• 1994: When ships die
• 1995: Zwischen allen Stühlen
• 2007: Amrita Sher-Gil: A family album

News reports for television shows (selection)

• 1973: Disquiet over the Nobel Peace Prize (Weltspiegel)
• 1975: Portrait Mujibur Rahman (Weltspiegel)
• 1976: Spaniens Abzug aus West-Sahara (tagesschau, Weltspiegel)
• 1976: Interview with Edward Braithwaite (Weltspiegel III)
• 1976: The Legacy of Amílcar Cabral (Weltspiegel)
• 1977: Portrait George Fernandes (Weltspiegel)
• 1978: Ransom for GDR citizens (extra drei)
• 1978: Amnesty International - Animal testing (tagesthemen)
• 1979: Two-fold asylum law (Panorama)
• 1979: India: Vanity Contest (Weltspiegel)
• 1982: Asylum in the Federal Republic (Panorama)
• 1982: Foreigners’ test (extra drei)
• 1982: Binational marriages (Panorama)
• 1982: Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (tagesthemen)
• 1983: Women’s shelters (tagesschau)
• 1983: The case of Kemal Altun (Panorama)
• 1984: Midnight’s Children / Salman Rushdie
• 1984: Human Rights Day (Weltspiegel)
• 1991: Bundestag debate § 218 (Commentary, tagesthemen)
• 1992: India: Hindus and Muslims (Weltspiegel)
• 1993: India: Hindus on the warpath dem Kriegspfad (Weltspiegel)

Moderation

• 1963–1964: Asiatische Miniaturen
• 1973–1996 (not on a regular basis): Weltspiegel, Panorama, Gesichter Asiens,<ref>Gesichter Asiens – eine Nacht für Hans Walter Berg. In: presseportal.de. NDR, 14 November 2003, accessed on 19 Junel 2024.</ref>Weltjournal, ARD-Flashpoints and special broadcasts

Texts, Lectures, Publications (selection)

• Thoughts on the Employment of Media in Developing Countries. Sundaram, Navina (1979): in Peter Herrmann & Rainer Kabel (eds.), Media, Technology, Development: The Role of Media Adapted By Developing Countries. Berlin: Spiess.
• Internationaler Künstler-und Kulturaustausch mit der Dritten Welt. Reports and discussions on the film Sommergäste:- Künstlertreffen am Himalaya in the publication series of the Braunschweig University of Art, Volume 7, documentation of the symposiums from 11-13 April 1984.
• Westliche Zivilisation – Befreiung für die Frauen in der Dritten Welt? Speech given at the 1986 Development Policy Symposium in Duisburg – Documentation
• Gedanken zu Europa. (Frankfurter Rundschau) 3 April 1992.
• Frau und Fremd in den Medien. Lecture on International Women’s Day on 6. März 1996 at the Landesfunkhaus Hannover (reprinted in TEXTE ZUR MEDIENPÄDAGOGIK Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für Fortbildung und Weiterbildung im Schulwesen und Medienpädagogik (NLI) 1997).
• Wir machen unser eigenes Bild: Migrantinnen in den Medien, Medien für Migrantinnen. Published in 1998 Auf zum Marsch in die Institutionen! Migrantinnen und Migranten in staatlichen und nichtstaatlichen Einrichtungen – Dokumentation der vierten landesweiten Konferenz der Migrantinnen, Migranten und Flüchtlinge in Niedersachsen, AMFN Publisher. ISBN 3-9806150-0-6
• Mehr Farbe in den Medien oder der alltägliche Rassismus in den Redaktionsstuben.
• Für eine Kultur der Differenzen – Friedens-und Dritte-Welt-Zeitschriften auf dem Prüfstand. Minutes of the conference published by the Ev. Akademie Iserlohn in the Institut für Kirche und Gesellschaft, 2004. ISBN 3-931845-80-X.
• Das Bild des Anderen. Die Erfahrungen einer Inderin in Deutschland und einer Deutschen in Indien. TAZ Magazine, 6/7 August 2005.
• An Outsider’s Inside View or an Insider’s Outside View – India on German TV 1957–2005.
• Import Export Cultural Transfer India/Germany/Austria. 2005 Parthas Publisher, ISBN 3-86601-910-6.
• Grüblerisches zum Thema ‚Heimat in der Fremde‘. In: Heimat in der Fremde, Migrationsgeschichten von Menschen aus Indien in Deutschland, Draupadi Publisher, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937603-30-8.

Honorary engagement

• Member of the Hamburg Senate's Development Policy Advisory Council chaired by Ingomar Hauchler, convened in August 1999 by the red-green coalition; she was involved in drawing up guidelines for a Hamburg development policy in line with Agenda 21. The Advisory Board's attempt to continue its work after the change of government ended with its resignation on 29 March 2004.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Norddeutsche Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung (NUE) from 1999.

Web links

• The Fifth Wall – Media library with works by Navina Sundaram.
• Deutschlandfunk Zwischentöne. Music and Questions to the person on 16 January 2022: Die Journalistin Navina Sundaram „Jede Art von Diversität ist ein Vorteil“, Moderation: Marietta Schwarz

References

1. Obituary in the FAZ, 14 May 2022, accessed on 19 June 2024.
2. Navina Sundaram: Grüblerisches zum Thema „Heimat in der Fremde“. In: heimatkunde.boell.de. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, accessed on 18 June 2024.
3. Navina Sundaram: Migranten und Fernsehen der 70er: Anders als die anderen. In: taz.de. Die Tageszeitung, 13 November 2007, accessed on 18 June 2024.
4. Navina Sundaram, 76. In: Der Spiegel. No. 18, 2022, accessed on 20 June 2024.
5. Journalistin Navina Sundaram gestorben. In: tagesspiegel.de. 26 April 2022, accessed on 18 June 2024.
6. Andrea Böhm: Kein Zündstoff in der Konsenswolke. In: Die Tageszeitung. 17 December 1991, p. 5 (taz.de [accessed on 18 June 2024]).
7. Johann Hinrich Claussen: Nachruf: Eine Welt-Journalistin. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25 April 2022, accessed on 18 June 2024.
8. Die Geschichten hinter den Nachrichten. In: ndr.de. NDR, accessed on 19 June 2024.
9. Hans-Ulrich Wagner: Axel Eggebrecht und das NDR „Nachwuchsstudio“. In: ndr.de. NDR, 13 July 2011, accessed on 19 June 2024.
10. Das Altpapier – Die rücksichtslose Meinungsfreiheit des Stärkeren. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 26 April 2022, accessed on 19 June 2024.
11. Gesichter Asiens – eine Nacht für Hans Walter Berg. In: presseportal.de. NDR, 14 November 2003, accessed on 19 June 2024.