Das vergessene Volk . Eine Reise zu den letzten Jägern und Sammlern

This award-winning live reportage is a moving journey into our own past, as we have spent 95% of human history as hunter-gatherers. The Maniq people live deep in the rainforest. Self-sufficient, hidden, alone. They are among the last hunter-gatherers on our planet. Researcher Khaled Hakami set off into the rainforest with many questions for the Maniq, lived with them for months and returned with some surprising answers.

Today, the Maniq are among the last hunter-gatherers on our planet. Their nomadic life in the remote rainforests of the Malay Peninsula knows no social, political or economic inequality, neither between men and women nor between children and adults. The image of primitive Stone Age people in school books and the media has little to do with reality. The same applies to romantic notions of indigenous life in harmony with nature. But how and why does a society function without hierarchy, without property or ownership, without social institutions and without complex technology? What do people think for whom there is no future or past, only the present? What does daily life look like in a world that does not extend beyond the boundaries of the rainforest? What do people who have no faith believe? How do they parent when there are no "children" and "adults"? And if we have lived like this or something similar for the longest time in our history, why did we have to change? These are typical questions of the WEIRD people (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic), which only interest us, but not the hunter-gatherers. To them, we are just strange beings from another world who can't find their way around the rainforest. Khaled Hakami was allowed to (survive) as an average WEIRD person among the Maniq and shares this experience of culture shock with the audience.
"The Forgotten People" is a multi-award-winning live reportage and has won the international Discovery Days Festival 2022 in Laax, Switzerland, among others. Following the lecture, we will delve even deeper into the rainforest with Khaled Hakami and the audience in a round table discussion.
This lecture is a highlight of this year's TRAUM & ABENTEUER season and is absolutely worth seeing!

KHALED HAKAMI
The Viennese Khaled Hakami researches and works as a freelance academic at the University of Vienna. In addition to his classic teaching activities, the renowned scientist organizes conferences, was a guest on the radio series Punkt Eins on Ö1, at the Long Night of Research, at the Researcher Slam and also arouses great interest outside anthropological circles with his live reportage.