Berber (homeless person)

The title of this article is ambiguous. For more meanings, see Berber (disambiguation) .

The word Berber is an occasionally used self-designation of a socially organized subgroup of homeless people .

Usage contexts

The term Berber is reflected in a wide variety of contexts. The Berber letters published by the homeless Hans Klunkelfuss in the late 1980s, which can be seen as the forerunners of today's street papers, can be seen in a prominent place . A more recent example is "Berber Info", an internet platform that was launched by the homeless Jürgen Schneider in 2007, which provides information for homeless people, usually contact points, emergency overnight stays, advice centers, etc. The poverty network emerged from the Berber Info in 2012 .

A Citizens for Berbers Association has been founded in Esslingen.

The Landes-Arbeits-Gemeinschaft (Landes-Arbeits-Gemeinschaft), organized by the homeless people, organizes Berber meetings every year. The 11th Berber meeting took place in 2007 in the St. Ursula Home in Offenburg, the 13th Berber meeting in Offenburg was on July 4th and 5th, 2009.

Other names

The word Sandler in Bavarian and Austrian German denotes homeless or homeless people, the ambiguous term bum is for the same group of people, according to the Duden, "casually derogatory" meant, see also homelessness .

Others

• The Cologne band “De Höhner” thematizes the situation of Berbers in their song “Alles verlore”.
• "Berbersommer" is the title of a text collection published in 1992 by the authors HPKerr and Walter Wehner .

literature

• Wolfgang Ayaß : "Vagabonds, hikers, homeless and non-sedentary": a short history of the concept of help for the homeless , in: Archive for Science and Practice of Social Work 44 (2013), pp. 90-102.
• Rüdiger Heins: About Berbers and city rats. Lamuv, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-88977-506-3 .
• Hannes Kiebel : "Well, you old Berber" - description of a search for traces of the term "Berber". In: mob magazine # 6 from September 1995; Berlin 1995, p. 2ff. and in: homeless 3/95. Bielefeld 1995, pp. 102-105.
• Jürgen Malyssek, Klaus Störch: Homeless people - exclusion and stigmatization. Lambertus Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7841-1867-3 .

Web links

• berber-info.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiebel, Hannes: Well, you old Berber. Description of the search for traces of the term "Berber". In: drstefanschneider.de . 1995, accessed on April 16, 2014 (German). 
2. ↑ Verein Bürger für Berber eV ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Report from the Berber meeting 2007 in Offenburg
4. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/offenburg/kampf-fuer-eine-sozialere-gesellschaft--16788949.html