Flying With Red Haircrow

Updated 15 May 2022

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Current & Upcoming Events

• Nov 2023-Jan 2024 – “Spiel mit der Zeit” live show, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin, Germany
• 7 February 2024 – “Indian” Is Not A Costume” & “Twice Colonized” screening, Salzburg, Austria
• Summer 2024 – 

Honors & Awards

• 2023 Winner Ma’iingan Scholarship Award winner as an early career psychologist in Two-spirit, LGBTQ+, gender fluid, nonbinary and other gender expansive support work
• 2019 Finalist Overcome Film Festival in San Bernadino, CA, USA for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2019 Semi-finalist Courage Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2019 Semi-finalist A Rebel Minded Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2018 Winner Audience Award at Refugees Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2018 Best in Category Buddha Film Festival Pune, India, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2018 Semi-finalist LosAngeles CineFest, USA for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2013 Finalist Contemporary LGBT Fiction at Rainbow Awards for The Agony of Joy
• 2013 Winner LGBT Fiction at Global eBook Awards for The Agony of Joy
• 2012 Winner LGBT Biography at Rainbow Awards for Silence is Multi-Colored in my World

Bibliography & Videography:

• A Lieutenant’s Love 
• Convenience Store Romance 
• Night Shift
• Katrdeshtr’s Redemption 
• The House of Doom, Dreams and Desire 
• The Coat: Secrets of a Hatcheck Boy 
• The Angel of Berlin 
• The Caravaggio and the Swan
• We, The Dead (Danse Macabre Magazine)
  
• Varney the Vampire Remixed
• The Agony of Joy (Global E-Book Awards Winner 2013, Best in Category, Finalist Rainbow Awards 2013)
• Variance: A Short Story Collection
• Child of Light, a short interactive fiction game
• The Angel of Berlin, a short interactive fiction game

Non-Fiction

• Varied Spirits, Vol.1 Anthology (editor, contributor) (31 March 2023)
• Terming Us into New Obscurity, contributor in #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken – Zusammen als People of Color?! Überlegungen zu nachhaltiger Community-Zusammenarbeit III at xart splitta (2  Dec 2022)
• The Color of Your Skin & Threatened by Beads, two poems in “Risings Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution” by University Press (Jan, 2022)
• The Color of Your Skin & Threatened by Beads, two poems in Geschichte schreiben or “Writing History” in Neue Rundschau 2018/2 “Geschichte schreiben“, S. Fischer Verlage (July, 2018)
• Threatened by Beads & The Color of Your Skin in Red Ink: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities (Nov/Dec. 2016)
• The Mountains Are My Kingdom in Red Rising Magazine (May 2016)
• CORE: A Poetry Collection (March 2014)
• Big Mama’s Pears in American Athenauem, Sword & Saga Press (March 31, 2013)
• Eight Poems in Sibling Rivalry Press’ Assaracus Magazine  (January 10, 2013)
• Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World (Rainbow Award Winner 2012 Best Gay Biography)
• Songs of the Universal Vagabond (August, 2, 2011)

Indian Country Today Media Network Articles (ICT*):

• Germany’s Obsession With American Indians Is Touching–And Occasionally Surreal
• A Star Trek Convention for Native Enthusiasts: Inside a German ‘Pow-wow’
• Tribes Demand Return of Native Scalps From Karl May Museum (local)
• Agreement Reached Regarding Scalps at Karl May Museum
• Karl May Museum’s Lastest on Human Remains? WE Decide, Not You. We’re in Control. #Repatriation (related story, local, with interview.)
• Meet WiggleTooth, Germany’s Stereotypical Indian
• Naked Faux Savages and Neo-Racism in Berlin”
• “Ich bin ein Tonto”-Johnny Depp Premieres “Lone Ranger” in Berlin (local)

Lectures, Screenings, Workshops & Exhibitions

• Koloniale Kontinuitäten “Mächtig unFair”. Screening & guest speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” in cooperation with Oldenburg University, Germany and Cine K Theatres.
• Screening & Guest Speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” in cooperation with Culturitical group and Christian Albrecht University at Kiel, Germany (3 May 2023)
• Lecture – “Dismantling The Architecture and Refurbishment of Indigenous Trauma” in cooperation with Saarbrücken University (3 Dec 2022)
• Workshop – “Righting History – How Historical Amnesia and Omission Fuels the New Rise of Normalized” in cooperation with xart splitta for “Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between”, and the Living Archives.
• Lecture – “Beyond the Bubble – The Need for Variance. Recognizing and fulfilling the needs of adaptability and variance in harm free ways” at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria (10 Nov 2022)
• Lecture – “Dismantling the Architecture and Refurbishment of Indigenous Trauma” in cooperation with Saarbrücken University, Saarbrücken, Germany (3 Nov 2022)
• Presentation – “Native stereotypes and their connection to racism, colonialism, and deep societal issues” at Beethoven Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany (Dec 2021-Jan 2022)
• Workshop Series – “Indigenous history is World history – Critical Understanding” at Freie University, Berlin, Germany (Dec 2021-January 2022)
• Special screening – “International Weeks Against Racism,” in cooperation with Friedensau Adventist University, “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (23 March 2021)
• Special screening –  “Schwarz ist der Ozean” (Ausstellung) at Exil – Osnabrücker Zentrum für Flüchtlinge e.V., “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way”(27 February 2021)
• Special discussion, German Writers and Race: Modern Germany’s Cognitive Dissonance on Racism and its Roots in Karl May’s Legacy at Brandeis University, 30 November 2020.
• Special Event – “Playing Indian” at Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg (29 September 2020)
• Seminar – “Critical Perspectives of Native Americans for Daycare, School and Society” at ISTA Berlin (14-15 September 2020)
• Radio Podcast – “Don’t Frack the NT” at Reboot.FM (with Que Kenny & Rachel O’Reilly) on 8 Dec 2019
• Special screening – “Unseen // Unheard: The Indigenous perspective” ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin (4 Dec 2019)
• Special screening -Discussion: “Why are Natives/Indigenous often left out of racism conversations in Germany?” at Xart Splitta (21 Nov. 2019)
• Special screening- Indigenous Film & Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado (14 Oct 2019)
• Official selection – Balkan Can Kino Film Festival in Athens, Greece (10 Oct 2019)
• Special screening – Bildungswerk Berlin Heinrich Böll Stiftung at FSK Kino am Oranienplatz (7 Sept 2019)
• Special screening – “Wer lebt mit wem sommercamp” (18 July 2019, Waltershausen, Germany)
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” Screening and Q&A at Institut für den Situationsansatz, May 24, 2019.
• “Forget Winnetou” Screening & Discussion at “BLUTSBRÜDER” Exhibition at Museumquartier Osnabrück, April 26, 2019.
• “Can you copyright culture?” at dBs Music/Film Berlin, March 13, 2019.
• “Identity in Contemporary Native Literature” at Humboldt University in Berlin, Jan. 2019
• “identity.intersectionality.indigeneity” (film series) in cooperation with xart splitta, Berlin, Nov.7-Dec.5, 2018.
• “identity.intersectionality.indigeneity” (lecture) facilitated by TU Dresden for the “Courage! 2018” Series, Dresden, Nov. 15, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (screening) at Kino im Kasten, Dresden, Nov. 14, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (screening) at Refugees Welcome Film Festival, Berlin, Oct. 29, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (screening) at Daneben im Tröpferlbad, Munich, Oct. 23, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! How projections become reality” at TRAFO Ideenkongress in Halle (Saale), Sept. 19, 2018. AUDIO
• TRAFO-Ideenkongress zu Kultur, Alltag & Politik auf dem Land in Halle (Saale), Sept. 19, 2018.
• Racism: The Invention of Human Races at Deutsches Hygiene Musuem in Dresden, May 19, 2018-January 6, 2019. Excerpt from documentary film “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way.”
• Reclaiming the Ancestors at Berlin Postkolonial Transnational Conference on Prussian Colonial Heritage, October 2017.
• Native American Reparation Movements for Reparation Days Events by BREBIT, October 2017.
• Contemporary Native History at Christian Ernst Gymnasium, Erlangen, July 2017.
• #RepresentationMatters: Decolonizing Indigeneity. Forget Winnetou at Humboldt University, June 2017.
• Native Filmmakers Strike Back! at Saarbrücken University, June 2017.
• Dakota Access Pipeline: Protests, politics and the coverage – The Listening Post, Al Jazeera, Dec. 2016.
• Native American History-Past & Present including Standing Rock at Gymnasium Melle in Melle, Germany (Nov. 2016).
• Dispelling the Myths/Gegen den Mythos at the Tages des indigenen Films for Elements e.V. in Rostock, Germany (Nov. 2014).
• Representation of Indigenous in Film/Repräsentationen Indigener im Film at the Tages des indigenen Films for Elements e.V. in Rostock, Germany (Nov. 2015).
  

Academic Work (at Academia.edu) & Citations (Google Scholar)

• Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Natives: Cultural Competency & Support (2019)
• Research Report-Effects of Ethnicity-Related Experiences on Native or Indigenous People (2018)
• Historical and Contemporary Perceptions and Experiences of Natives with Mixed Ethnic Ancestry (2018)
• The Relevance and Necessity of Indigenous Knowledge (2017)
• There Should be No Native Mascot Discussion (2017)
• The Challenges of Indigenous Studies: A voice from both sides of the desk (2016)
• Ice Engineering Principles Comparison: Native American Historical Trauma (2016)

Other Articles, Comments, Podcasts & Interviews:

• “The Indigenous have already experienced their Apocalypse” – Interview on “Alles Muss Raus” – (Oct 2023)

• Faschingskostüme: Ist Rassismus vielen egal? (Video Interview) at recap bei MDR.de (Feb 2023)

• Karneval: Warum es immer noch “Blackfacing” und “Indianer”-Kostüme gibt (Article) at MDR.de (Feb 2023)
• “Das Problem an #Winnetou: Ein Psychologe über Rassismus und die deutsche Obsession mit dem Wilden Westen” (Interview) at Tagesspiegel (August 2022)
• Mitglied der Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee verurteilt Neuauflage von Winnetou: “Hier geht es um Geldmacherei” (Interview) at STERN.DE (August 2022)
• #MayflowersKill campaign (interviewee on Instagram) at Survival International (October 2021)
• “The Frankfurt Book Fair Sheds Light on Germany’s Strange Obsession with Indigenous Culture” by Francesca Bianco at Montecristo Magazine (Autumn 2021)
• “Neue Erfurcht vom altem Wissen” at Zeitwissen (September/October 2021)
• “Ich bin kein Kostüm!” (documentary participant) by Karsten Gravert at 3Sat Kultur (7 February 2021)
• “German ‘Wild West’ museum to repatriate Native American scalp” at Deutsche Welle, article & video (24 November 2020)
• Stereotype im Kinderalltag: Was Federn, Pfeile und Prärie mit Rassismus zu tun haben at die Tagesspiele (October 16, 2020) Interview
• “When I Think About America” at Medium.com (Feb. 2020) Personal Essay
• Why Germany can’t quit its racist Native American problem at Deutsche Welle (February 26, 2020) Article
• Liebevolles Klischee at Neues Deutschland (July 13, 2019) Article
• Kostüme sind nicht unschüldig at Zeit Online. Article.
• The Indian Citizenship Act at WDR5 Radio Studios (June 2, 2019) RADIO
• “Can you copyright culture? at dBs  Film & Music Studios Berlin (March 20, 2019) VIDEO
• “Indianer-Kostüm-Verbot Das sagen die Nachfahren amerikanischer Ureinwohner dazu” at Hamburger Morgenpost. Article.
• “Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: Twin Cosmos of the Indigenous World” by Barbara Alice Mann (review), for NAISA,  Vol.5.1 2018, University of Minnesota.
• “AKA Through the ‘White Lens’” on RT UK (September 21, 2018) VIDEO
• Unspoken Cultures on The Electric Sheep Film Show (September 19, 2018) PODCAST
• Ideenkongress zu Kultur, Alltag & Politik auf dem Land at TRAFO (September 19, 2018) VIDEO
• Vergesst Winnetou (Film review & comment) at OYA Magazine. In Deutsch. (April 2018)
• Searching For Winnetou (Documentary interview) at CBC Docs (January, 28, 2018) VIDEO
• ‘Native’ Hobbyism is Modern Day Colonialism at CBC.CA (January 26, 2018)
• Film ‘Forget Winnetou!’ studies German idealization of Indigenous culture at Rabble.ca (May 31, 2017)
• Ich bin nur dem Nein begegnet at Der Freitag Newspaper (March 24, 2017)
•  Project Forget Winnetou at Deutschlandradio Kultur Kompressor Radioshow (March 14, 2017) PODCAST & INTERVIEW
•  Red Haircrow at Süddeutsche Zeitung (March 3, 2017) INTERVIEW
• Standing Rock & Indigenous Sovereignty at The Voices Radioshow on Reboot.fm (Nov. 19, 2016) PODCAST
• Professions-What do “Real Natives” Do? at Red Rising Magazine (Jan. 4, 2017)
• Kulturelle Aneignung und koloniale Gewaltat Missy Magazine (Nov. 3, 2016)
• The Songs We Sing-Or We Don’t Sing at K.I.N. Knowledge in Indigenous Networks (Oct. 1, 2016)
• The Challenges of Indigenous Studies in “Our Schools/Our Selves” Vol. 26, no.1 (Fall 2016) published by The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• A Voice From Both Sides of the Desk: Indigenous Studies at Red Rising Magazine (August 2, 2016)
• “Dues Paid”: A Navajo Metal Band in Denmark at Red Rising Magazine (July 11, 2016)
• The Challenges of Indigenous Studies in “Mixed Company” at K.I.N. Knowledge in Indigenous Networks (July 29, 2016)
• Im Wilden Osten at STERN Magazine (Sept. 3, 2015)
• Last of the Munichans at Mother Jones Magazine (July/August 2015)
• Cowboys & Indianer at Ex-Berliner Magazine (July/Aug. 2014)
• Battle Over an Ojibwe Scalp at Deutsche Welle TV (May 2014) VIDEO
• Red Haircrow Interview at PULS (July 2014)
• Dressing Up as Cowboys & Indians Is Big in Germany at Global Post (June 2014)
• Hirnloser Trend oder bewusste Provokation? at PULS (June 2014)
• Interview // Red Haircrow at PULS (June 2014)

Book Trailers by Red Haircrow:

• CORE: A Poetry Collection
• Variance
• The Angel of Berlin
• Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World
• The Agony of Joy

Films & Music Videos at Flying With Red Haircrow Productions:

• Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way (2018)
• Master Session 2018 by Uli Lenz
• City to Seaside by Uli Lenz
• The Dog from Tula by Uli Lenz & Red Haircrow
• Conejitos Amarillos by Uli Lenz & Red Haircrow
• Siempre Y Para Siempre by Uli Lenz
• Love Channel by Uli Lenz
• Blue Lips by Uli Lenz
• Soul Eyes by Uli Lenz
• The Joyous Piano Salon by Uli Lenz
• Korean Maze by 105 Lenz Kubach Johnson Jazz Trio

Documentary Film Trailers

• Extra scene “Manuel” (2019) for ALMOST
• Trailer (2019) for ALMOST
• Film Teaser with Laurels (2019) for Forget Winnetou!
• Film Trailer 2018 (2018) for Forget Winnetou!
• Official Interview Trailer (2017) for Forget Winnetou!
• 1st Promo Trailer for Forget Winnetou! (2017)

Documentary “Forget Winnetou!” (2018) Official Selections, Special Screenings & Awards

• ““Indian” Is Not A Costume” Discussion & “Twice Colonized” Documentary screening, Salzburg, Austria (7 Feb 2024)
• “Forget Winntou! Loving in the Wrong Way” screening, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. (26 Oct 2023)
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” screening + Q&A, Freiburg, Germany. (18 Oct 2023)
• Screening & Guest Speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” with cooperation with Oldenburg University and Cine K Theatres. (10 May 2023)
  Screening & Guest Speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” in cooperation with Culturitical and Christian Albrechts University at Kiel (3 May 2023)
• Special Screening – “Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus” – Theologischen Hochschule Friedensau & “Demokratie leben! – Partnerschaft für Demokratie Burg und südliches Jerichower Land” (23 March 2021)
• Special Screening – “Schwartz ist der Ozean” series at Exil – Osnabrücker Zentrum für Flüchtlinge e.V. (27 February 2021, Osnabrück)
• Special Screening – Unseen Unheard // Indigenous Film Screening at ACUD MACHT NEU (4 December 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Special Screening & Discussion – Xart Splitta (21 November 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Finalist – Overcome Film Festival (October 2018, San Bernadino, CA, USA)
• Film Festival – Indigenous Film & Arts Festival (14 October 2019, Denver, Colorado)
• Film Festival – Balkan Can Film Festival in (10 October, 2019, Athens, Greece)
• Special Screening – Heinrich Böll Stiftung Bildungswerk Berlin (7 September 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Special Screening – Institut für den Situationsansatz (24 May 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Special Screening -“Blütsbruder” Exhibition (26 April 2019, Osnabrück, Germany)
• Semi-finalist – Courage Film Festival 2019 (Berlin, Germany)
• Semi-finalist -A Rebel Minded Festival 2019 (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
• Refugees Welcome Film Festival (Oct. 29, 2018, Berlin, Germany) AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
• Special Screening – PAVED Arts & Wanuskewin Galleries, (January 2019, Saskatoon, SK, Canada)
• Special Screening – Kino in Kasten in cooperation with Technische Universität Dresden (Nov. 14, 2018, Dresden, Germany)
• Native Spirit Film Festival (October 11-21, 2018, London, England, UK)
• NatiVisions Film Festival (29 September 2018, Parker, AZ, USA)
• Indigenous Film Festival (August 2-3, 2018, Pine Ridge, SD, USA)
• Buddha Film Festival (June 9-10, 2018, Pune, Maharashtra, India) BEST IN CATEGORY AWARD WINNER
• First Nations Film & Video Festival (May 1-10, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Semi-finalist- LosAngeles CineFest (April 2018)
• Finalist- Miami Epic Trailer Festival (April 2017)