Berzan Kejo was an artist, filmmaker, media designer, author and certified 3D game developer. Kejo was born in Al Kamishly, Syria in 1960 as a stateless Kurd. In 1986 he fled Syria and had to spend four years in asylum accommodation in Germany. He received political asylum, but also experienced racism and exclusion in Germany and could not remain silent about these experiences. His themes were flight and its consequences, life in exile and the search for home. In 2016 he proclaimed the “New Degenerate Art” in order to give these issues a voice in the cultural world as those affected and commented on them in detail in his artist catalog of the same name. In his novel Ro Jîn - Sonne des Lebens he worked through part of his past. Kejo passed away on January 12, 2021.