Black Deutschland is a made-for-television documentary film, directed by Oliver Hardt and produced by de-Arte.
[2] Filmed in German and English, Black Deutschland investigates the lives of these people to understand and explore identity formation in Germany.
One of the characters, and African-American writer Darius James, puts it best when he says: “one of the things I was very much interested in when I moved here was the diversity of black people.
Black people come from everywhere, they are everywhere.” Another central theme in the film is the power the language has and its place in contemporary racial relations.
They also discuss the racist legacies of nursery rhymes including "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and "Zehn Kleine Nergelein", the latter song continually throughout the film.