Book pirates
The book pirate e. V. was founded in 2002 in Lübeck. The association makes it its business to get children and young people enthusiastic about books. With the book pirates, children and young people can read, write, perform and organize the world of literature and put their own creative ideas into practice. In the children's and youth groups, which take place regularly in the children's literature house, the children and in a team learn to work together and to responsibly carry out their own projects on the subject of literature. The book pirates are also involved in several projects beyond the children's literature house to promote reading. Since 2018, they have hosted the North German Reading Promotion Congress every two years.
Children's literature house
The children's literature house is located in the old town building on Fleischhauerstr. 71 in Lübeck. The book pirates have set up rooms for children and youth groups and an event room in the children's literature house. There the young people can try out their own event formats and carry out projects such as the Lübeck Youth Book Days. Overall, the Book Pirates Festival, a literature festival for children, takes place there once a year.
The charity bookshop is located on the ground floor of the children's literature house, where 40 volunteers sell donated books. The proceeds from the charity shop support the educational work in the children's and youth groups of the book pirates.
The children's literature house is unique in Germany because the young people have a say in the design of the children's literature house. It is not only about the interior design, but above all about the content and the educational offer.
Pedagogical work in the children's literature house
In the children's literature house, young people write, read, discuss and bring stories to life. With the book pirates, they are encouraged to get actively involved and implement their ideas independently. Over ten children and youth groups with different focuses on the subject of reading and writing from 8-19 years. Every year around 280 group meetings and 70 workshops for children and young people take place in the rooms of the children's literature house.
One of the most important groups is the editorial staff of the Blue Page. At www.die-blaue-seite.de, young people between the ages of 12 and 19 publish reviews of young people's books and interview well-known authors. The best-known interviewees include Cornelia Funke and John Green . Another youth group deals with the organization of the Lübeck youth book days. The young people plan a youth literature festival according to their own wishes for a year and invite authors, actors and voice actors for readings from their favorite youth books. Every year at the Book Pirate Festival, the author-explorers award a young author the Golden Book Pirate . The group of authors, in which young people receive input on the subject of writing and exchange ideas about the texts they have written, has existed the longest. The children and young people play a key role in the selection of what is on offer for children and young people in the children's literature house. You decide which new children and youth groups and workshops are offered.
All of the book pirates' projects are financed by donations.
Further projects of the association
- Hui Buh live radio play for the 15th anniversary
- 1001 language - Bilingual picturebooks
- Annual Christmas fundraiser "A book for every child"
- North German Reading Promotion Congress
- Lübeck Youth Book Days
- Book Pirate Festival
Awards
- pluspunkt Kultur 2010 of the Federal Association for Cultural Youth Education
- Selected location 2012 - 365 locations in the land of ideas 2012
- "Golden Brat" of the German Children's Fund for the Lübeck Youth Book Days 2013
- German Citizen Award 2015
- Neighborhood Award 2017 (State Winner Schleswig-Holstein)
- Special award "Reading Promotion" of the avj media award 2020
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Cornelia Funke 2016 - The Blue Side. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview with John Green - The Blue Side. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Birthday with Hui Buh. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Children's literature house in Lübeck. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ dpa: Lübeck youth book days receive Golden Brat | shz.de. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ German Citizenship Award for the books pirates. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Landessieger Schleswig-Holstein - Books pirates. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Association of Youth Book Publishers eV (avj)> Office> Braubachstraße 16> 60311 Frankfurt: avj> Activities> Prices> avj medienpreis. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .