Akubiz
| AKuBiZ e. V.
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Pirna |
| Branch | political education, memorial and remembrance work |
| Website | www.akubiz.de |
AKuBiZ eV is an association from Pirna (AKuBiZ = alternative culture and education center). AKuBiZ works as a non-governmental organization for the democratization of democracy , against anti-Semitism , against racism , against nationalism , against sexism and other ideologies of inequality.
The fields of activity of AKuBiZ extend over history work, educational work, cultural work and youth work. In 2010 the association rejected the Saxon Prize for Democracy .
history
The AKuBiZ eV association was founded in 2001 as a reaction to an aggressive and violent neo-Nazi scene in Saxon Switzerland. The original goal was to create a self-managed and alternative youth center for non- right-wing youth. However, since 2001 there has been a change in the direction and focus. On September 15, 2012, the readers of the daily newspaper awarded the association chairman Steffen Richter the taz Panter Prize . Further recognitions followed in 2013, including an award from the Dynamo Dresden football club and the Radebeul Courage Prize. As early as October 2015, the association applied in a competition lasting more than five months, the Google Impact Challenge, with the project "Memorial Places", a digital historical atlas, and is among the last 200 finalists * from more than 2,200 applicants * come inside. As a local project, the public voted for the association as one of the winners in a public vote in February 2016.
History work
AKuBiZ deals with coming to terms with the era of National Socialism in the city of Pirna and in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . Among other things, in collaboration with the historian Joachim Schindler, the book “Red Mountaineers - On their way in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains” was created, which deals with the resistance of the so-called Red Mountaineers within the United Climbing Department against National Socialism.
AKuBiZ took part in the International History Congress in Móra d'Ebre , which dealt with the processing and effects of the Spanish Civil War , especially the battles on the Ebro River .
AKuBiZ advocates reparation payments from Germany to Greece . In 2009 they demonstrated together with Manolis Glezos in front of the German Embassy in Athens and met the President of the Greek Parliament Filippos Petsalnikos . In addition, two interviews with Greek TV channels were recorded.
The association takes part in the "sentieri partigiani" in the province of Reggio Emilia ( Italy ) every year. This is a history project consisting of hikes in the Apennines and meetings with former partisans .
An event is held annually to commemorate the November pogroms in 1938 . In this context, the AKuBiZ 2008 showed bronze sculptures of the Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg in the Pirna Hospital Church. On October 30, 2011, a concert was held in Bonnewitz with pieces by composers who were murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .
Another work is the processing of the development and history of the satellite camps of the former Flossenbürg concentration camp in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district. The aim is to create a memorial at every historical location. In the meantime, information sheets have been drawn up and published about every satellite camp in the district.
On September 5, 2012, AKuBiZ published a commemorative brochure in cooperation with the Heilpädagogik-Bonnewitz non-profit foundation. This is dedicated to Martin Kretschmer, the founder of the Bonnewitz facility. Together with Annemarie Spitzner and Margarete Bär - Heinrich Bär's sister - he opened a curative education facility until he was arrested by the Gestapo in June 1941. On February 19, 1942, he died in the Oranienburg clinker works subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
In November 2012 the exhibition "Jewish life in Pirna and Saxon Switzerland", created in cooperation with the Pirna youth initiative and the Pirna historian Hugo Jensch, opened, providing insights into the history of Jewish life in the Saxon Switzerland district.
Since 2016, the association has published a digital historical atlas on the history of the Saxon Switzerland / Eastern Ore Mountains district and is constantly expanding it.
Extremism clause
On November 9th, 2010 the association AKuBiZ eV rejected the Saxon Prize for Democracy . The reason was the required submission of a declaration of democracy, the signature of which is a prerequisite for the granting of funding by the federal government and which is rejected by the association. There was nationwide coverage of the rejection. On April 25, 2012, the AKuBiZ won the first instance before the Dresden Administrative Court with its lawsuit against the extremism clause . The district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains appealed against the judgment, which will be heard before the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Bautzen. On February 25, 2013, the association declared the legal dispute before the OVG Bautzen to be settled and took legal action the following day before the VG Dresden against the "new" extremism clause.
"This (" new ") extremism clause also puts citizens under general suspicion, it calls for a one-sided commitment to a state whose institutions have repeatedly failed against right-wing terrorism and is an intellectual rollback into the 1970s. It should be abolished. "
Other Projects
The association has been organizing an "anti-racist soccer cup" since 2006, in which at least 15 mixed teams take part every year. In July 2015, a team wore a jersey with the label "Love Sports - Hate Germany", and publications by the New Right tried to stir up national outrage. But already on the match day, players in the tournament were racially insulted and threatened by spectators. The city of Hohnstein then prohibited the association from holding events at the city's sports facilities for three years. The campaign against the association culminated in a nightly attack on the association's office.
In 2008, the association published the comic “Now enough in Sachsnitz”, which deals with racism and neo-Nazis. The comic is aimed at children and young people and was distributed nationwide in three editions. The second part of the comic has been available since 2016 under the title "Nothing new from Sachsnitz".
Since 2007 AKuBiZ has been involved in the “AG Asylum Seekers”, which is committed to improving the living conditions of asylum seekers in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district. What was achieved was the payment of cash instead of catalog orders, the renovation of the communal accommodation in Langburkersdorf and a rethinking of the administration towards decentralized accommodation for asylum seekers. Since 2016, the Asylum Seekers Working Group in Pirna has been running an international meeting center in the city center with numerous offers, not just for refugees.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article in "Die Zeit."
- ^ AKuBiZ declaration on the extremism clause
- ^ Judgment in Dresden: Administrative court overturns extremism clause Spiegel Online
- ↑ Court smashes extremism clause from time online
- ^ Court throws down extremism clause , Zeit Online April 25, 2012, accessed July 5, 2012.
- ↑ District appeals against the judgment on the "extremism clause". Lausitzer Rundschau , July 27, 2012, accessed on August 25, 2012 .
- ↑ Why we couldn't win against the extremism clause ... (No longer available online.) Akubiz , 2013, archived from the original on April 21, 2013 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 .
- ^ Saxon newspaper
- ↑ about "Now enough in Sachsnitz" ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )