Birger Schmidt

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Birger Schmidt (born October 31, 1964 ) is a German educationalist, founder of the world's first football film festival 11mm and co-initiator, chairman and project manager of the club Lernort Stadion. He is the bearer of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Schmidt grew up on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn in the Puttgarden district , attended elementary school in Burg auf Fehmarn and then went to the Insel-Gymnasium. After training as a hotel manager and doing community service in Lübeck, he moved to Berlin in 1987 to study social pedagogy and educational science at the Technical University .

After working in violence prevention at the Berlin fan project, he created the football education and cultural program “dreams & teams” on behalf of the British Council Germany over several years and in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup. During this time he became a co-founder of the sports culture association Brot und Spiele eV and initiator of the world's first football film festival, 11mm, which he has been running since then together with Andreas Leimbach and Christoph Gabler.

Schmidt and the film festival became known nationwide through his initiative to persuade Sepp Maier to provide private video material of the national goalkeeper of the 1990 World Cup in order to make a film out of it. “We are the champions - Sepp Maier's 1990 World Cup video diary” then celebrated its world premiere in 2012 at 11mm with great public and media interest.

Birger Schmidt got to know the “Playing for success” program in England. He transferred the idea anchored there to use stadiums as extracurricular learning locations for schoolchildren to Germany. As a result, the Robert Bosch Stiftung introduced political education programs in German football stadiums from 2009 onwards. The non-profit foundation of the German Football League (DFL Foundation) became a junior partner and from 2018 the main sponsor alongside the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs for families, senior citizens, women and youth. Over 70,000 young people were able to benefit from this educational approach in the first ten years. Birger Schmidt has headed the project as chairman of the stadium as a learning location since 2014 .

He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture and the jury of the “grips wins” student grant from the Joachim Herz Foundation. He is a lecturer at the Alice Salomon University and the Evangelical University in Berlin .

Birger Schmidt is married and the couple has two daughters.

Award

On May 22, 2019, on the 70th anniversary of the Basic Law in Bellevue Palace, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Birger Schmidt the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for "his outstanding commitment to political education and the communication of the values ​​of the Basic Law" .

“The stadium as a place of learning, which he initiated, has achieved great success nationwide in communicating basic democratic values ​​to the target group of young people with an affinity for football ... With the“ 11mm ”football film festival that he co-initiated, he shows how about the unifying topic of football social and political issues can be conveyed and dialogues can arise - across social and cultural boundaries. "(from the award ceremony on May 22, 2019)

Publications

  • Narrative interview . In: Gerd Koch , Marianne Streisand (Hrsg.): Dictionary of theater pedagogy . Milow, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-933978-98-X , p. 212f ( archiv-datp.de ).
  • with Gerd Koch, Stephan Weßeling: ErzählCafés. Establishment of narrative, scene-safe situations in the field of a university . In: Reiner Steinweg (Ed.): Tell what I don't know . Milow, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937895-14-0 , pp. 87ff.
  • with Stefan Krankenhagen (Ed.): From the half distance. Football biographies and football cultures today (= cultural studies . Volume 15). Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0194-2 , 178 pp.
  • with Jan Tilman Schwab : The round has to be square . In: Ten years of the DFB - Kulturstiftung . National DFB Cultural Foundation WM 2006, Frankfurt 2016, DNB 1152850237 , pp. 42–45 ( dfb.de ).

literature

  • 15_Birger Schmidt . In: Lucia Jay von Seldeneck, Verena Eidel: 111 Berliners that you should get to know . Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-845-6 , p. 38f ( google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ln-online.de/Lokales/Ostholstein/Birger-Schmidt-bekommen-Bundesverdienstkreuz
  2. ↑ https://brot-und-spiele.com/#filter=.portfolio
  3. ↑ https://www.11-mm.de/index.php/de/
  4. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/fussballfilm-festival-elf-schauspieler-muesst-ihr-sein-a-616768.html
  5. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/sepp-maiers-wm-videos-von-1990-wi-arr-se-schaempiens-a-819577.html
  6. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/11-mm-fussball-film-festival-in-berlin-a-960723.html
  7. ↑ https://www.nfer.ac.uk/playing-for-success-an-evaluation-of-the-fourth-year/
  8. ↑ https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/lernort-stadion-politische-bildung-lernzentren-fussballstadien
  9. ↑ https://www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/aktuelles/alle-mektiven/bundesfamilienministerium-unterstuetzt-lernort-stadion-ev-/118596
  10. ↑ https://www.lernort-stadion.de/ueber-uns/
  11. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/birger-schmidt
  12. ↑ https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/2019/05/190522-OV-Matinee-Gelebtes-GG.html
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Birger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist, festival founder
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1964