Buddy Bear
The Buddy Bear ( English buddy "Kumpel", "Freund") is an individually painted life-size bear sculpture made of weather-resistant glass fiber reinforced plastic . The Buddy Bear adapts an idea that has been successful in other large cities since the late 1990s (see animal parades ), originally initiated by the Zurich Cow Culture in 1998.
history
Development of the archetypes in 2001
The Buddy Bear was developed in 2001 by Eva and Klaus Herlitz in collaboration with the Austrian artist and sculptor Roman Strobl . Four different bear models were designed: a “friend” standing on all fours, a “dancer” standing on his hind legs, an “acrobat” doing a headstand and a sitting “friend no. 2”.
In 2001, around 350 bears were painted in Berlin and placed around the city; it should be a one-time action. Because this symbol was well received by Berliners and tourists, the Berlin Senate extended the campaign several times and it has been running without restrictions since the 2010s. Many of the bears are no longer in Berlin. A total of almost 2,000 bears were produced (as of May 2017), 1,600 are outside of Berlin and Brandenburg .
Brief description and locations
The two meters high and around 50 kilograms heavy, upright bears are painted by artists from all over the world. A studio in Berlin-Tempelhof is used for this; then the bears are mounted on a concrete base outdoors. The initiators recommend hiring professional artists for painting. A well-known exception is the buddy in front of the Lichtenberg town hall , which was designed by a group of students.
Politicians and business managers have meanwhile spread Berlin's symbolic bearers: for example, Queen Elizabeth II of England received a bear, and then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented a member of the Kennedy family (Ted Kennedy) with a friend designed in honor of John F. Kennedy , which was placed in the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston .
In front of numerous German embassies and consulates general (e.g. in Washington , Brasília , Tokyo , Dhaka , St. Petersburg , Taipei , Paris , New Delhi ), Buddy Bears promote a tolerant, free and democratic Germany. In 2016, the Federal Foreign Office decided that Buddy Bears should gradually be set up in front of all German diplomatic missions abroad. The design should be entrusted to artists from the respective country.
Special events
Many Buddy Bears found a new home at or after city events : 18 bears traveled to Buenos Aires for the Long Night of the Museums in 2004 , in connection with the Urban Sculptures exhibition , 23 Buddy Bears were designed by Chinese artists in the same year and have been in Shanghai ever since . In 2005 and 2006, 75 Buddy Bears, which were designed by local artists, shaped the streets and alleys of St. Gallen and were later auctioned for the benefit of a children's facility in Switzerland. The street bears around the world with their raised arms of the standing buddy bear are focused on spreading friendliness and optimism.
The Buddy Bear kicker was a special event : in 2006, Berlin was caught in a World Cup football fever - the world's largest kicker was in the Kranzler Eck ( Kurfürstendamm ) in Berlin. Two years later, this Buddy Bear kicker delighted football fans in Vienna on the occasion of the European Championship .
A United Buddy Bear traveled to Paris in December 2009 . This bear, designed by the French artist Bruno di Martino , stood for 4 days in the foyer of the Salon 2009 de la Société des Beaux-Art in the Louvre , an exhibition under the patronage of the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy . In 2010 the Buddy Bear Quadriga was ceremoniously unveiled in the presence of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit , and the actress and ambassador of this Quadriga, Rebecca Lina .
At the Expo 2010 in Shanghai , a big Buddy Bear represented the capital Berlin in front of the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate in the German Pavilion. Balancity - a city in balance . Berlin Partner GmbH from Fuenfwerken Design AG had designed it on behalf of the Expo. In 2012, on the occasion of the opening of the TU Berlin campus in El Gouna, a buddy bear was unveiled as a symbol of the special connection between the two study locations.
The first interactive Buddy Bear has been around since the beginning of 2015 . It is on Washingtonplatz behind Berlin Central Station ; it glows and changes color as soon as you hug it.
The Human Rights Buddy Bear has been standing in the courtyard of the Foreign Office in Berlin since March 2015 - the logo and the word “Human Rights” are artistically implemented in seven languages on the front . On the back of the bear reference is made to Article 1 of the UN Charter of Human Rights : “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ”.
United Buddy Bears
The United Buddy Bears project began in 2002. After the successful Buddy Bear Berlin Show 2001 and the street bears , which was so named by the Berlin Senate , this was a further idea.
Berlin is a multicultural city, the bears are an element of the welcoming culture for people from all over the world. According to the ideas of the initiators, the popularity of the bears should serve to give people from all over the world food for thought to better understand one another - understanding the different living conditions in other countries and dealing with different cultures as a basis for peaceful coexistence and coexistence. From this basic consideration, the idea of the United Buddy Bears was developed under the motto “We have to get to know each other better, then we can understand each other better, trust more and live together better!”.
Charitable purpose
According to the initiators, the aim of the Buddy Bear campaigns is to support children's aid organizations through auctions and other activities related to the Buddy Bears. Therefore, companies, sports clubs and celebrities have been committed to the project right from the start, including the Berlin city cleaning companies and transport companies .
Buddy bear activities have made it possible to provide help for children in need - donations and auctions of buddy bears have so far raised over 2.3 million euros for UNICEF and various local children's aid organizations at home and abroad. In order to be able to help children quickly, specifically and unbureaucratically in individual cases, Eva Herlitz founded the association Buddy Bear Help e. V.
United Buddy Bears - World Tour
2002 to 2005
The initiators Eva and Klaus Herlitz intended to advertise tolerance and international understanding through the image of the peaceful coexistence of the bears and at the same time through auctions and other charitable activities, donations for worldwide children's aid organizations (UNICEF, SOS Children's Villages) but also for local, smaller organizations such as to generate the children's and youth work “Die Arche” . The circle of these United Buddy Bears now consists of up to 152 bears, each of which represents a country accepted by the United Nations and was designed by an artist from the country concerned. The event will be by the organizers and The Art of Tolerance ( The Art of Tolerance called). Admission is generally free and enables whole school classes to visit the exhibition. So far, over 35 million visitors worldwide have seen these exhibitions (as of September 2015).
The circle project was first presented in the summer of 2002 on Pariser Platz in Berlin. The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit , opened the exhibition in June. Numerous prominent guests came during the first exhibition, such as the then Federal President Johannes Rau and UNICEF world ambassador Sir Peter Ustinov . In 2003 the project was shown again in Berlin, which has now been opened by Peter Ustinov. Ustinov had advocated that Iraq should also be represented in the United Buddy Bears circle.
Istanbul,
Tepebaşı Pera Square (2004)
Tokyo,
Roppongi Hills (2005)
Seoul,
Olympic Park (2005)
Since then, the bears have been promoting peaceful coexistence between peoples, religions and cultures on their constant world tour. They were exhibited in 2004 in Kitzbühel (Austria), Hong Kong (under the patronage of Jackie Chan ) and Istanbul . Tokyo followed in 2005 (the exhibition was opened by Federal President Horst Köhler and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ; according to Ambassador Henrik Schmiegelow, around three million people visited the exhibition in Roppongi Hills ) - and Seoul in autumn . There, in the Olympic Park , bears from South and North Korea, designed by artists from the respective parts of the country, stood peacefully side by side, paw to paw.
→ see an overview of all United venues
2006 to 2009
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer attested the United Buddy Bears back in 2003 that they were "an impressive work of art and at the same time a symbol for the cultural richness of our one world, which through peaceful coexistence can be much more than just the sum of its parts". The Goethe-Institut characterized the United Buddy Bears as a “project that unites people”. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier described them in a greeting as "Ambassador of Berlin and a cosmopolitan Germany".
In the summer of 2006 the United Buddy Bears could be seen again in Berlin. They stood on Bebelplatz in Berlin-Mitte. Due to the historical location, a controversial discussion arose in Berlin in spring 2006. The Berlin Senator for Culture Thomas Flierl expressed his displeasure with the bears, since the Bebelplatz is a memorial to the book burning of 1933 . This list was welcomed by the Jewish community in Berlin as “an upgrade of the Bebelplatz”. Likewise, the neighboring Catholic community of St. Hedwig's Cathedral , the Israeli artist and sculptor Micha Ullman , the Foreign Office , the Berlin Senate and the Berlin-Mitte district gave positive statements about the installation on Bebelplatz. The official opening of the circle on June 15, 2006 took place in the presence of Federal Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , Mayor Karin Schubert and around 60 ambassadors. The exhibition visit by UN special envoy Mia Farrow was intended to draw attention to the refugees in the Darfur region (Sudan) on World Refugee Day .
After the exhibition in Berlin, the circle went on a world tour again and was first presented in autumn 2006 on Karlsplatz in Vienna , under the patronage of Christiane Hörbiger . In the spring of 2007, the United Buddy Bears exhibition on the banks of the Nile in Cairo was opened by Egypt's first lady, Suzanne Mubarak , on the island of Zamalek . The patron on the German side was Hans-Dietrich Genscher . In the summer, under the patronage of Iris Berben, the long-planned exhibition in Jerusalem , on Safra Square, became a reality. 132 countries stood peacefully hand in hand , including Israel between Iran and Iraq. And Palestine has also been represented in this exhibition that brings people together for the first time since 2007. The Palestine Bear was designed by Ibrahim Hazimeh , President of the Palestinian National Committee of Fine Arts at AIAP / UNESCO . Ban Ki-moon , Secretary General of the United Nations , certified the exhibitions of the United Buddy Bears in October 2007 that they “show the high creativity of artists from many different countries” and thus “carry a message of harmony and peace out into the world” .
Berlin,
Bebelplatz (2006)
Vienna,
Karlsplatz (2006)
Cairo, United Buddy Bears
on the banks of the Nile (2007)
Jerusalem,
Safra Square (2007)
In May / June 2008 the exhibition came to Warsaw . On the Plac Zamkowy (German: Schlossplatz) - in tradition and as a reminder of the Weimar Triangle - the opening was jointly organized by the three mayors of the cities of Warsaw ( Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz ), Berlin (Klaus Wowereit) and Paris (Vice Mayor Anne Hidalgo ) performed. In summer 2008 the United Buddy Bears made a guest appearance in Stuttgart on the Schloßplatz around the anniversary column. The exhibition was opened by Mayor Wolfgang Schuster .
The German Embassy in North Korea brought the bears to the city center of Pyongyang in autumn 2008 . They stood at the foot of Moran Hill, near the Kim Il-sung statue. It was the first art exhibition that came from abroad and at the same time the first that was freely accessible to everyone in North Korea. The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations wrote on October 20, 2008 (ifa cultural exchange): “The exhibition in Pyongyang will certainly not change the world, but it will change the world in North Korea very much.” The FAZ was surprised that the United Buddy Bears succeeded to arrive in the isolated Pyongyang as “the first public art exhibition from abroad that is accessible to everyone”.
In spring 2009, the grand opening of the first exhibition on the American continent was celebrated on the Plaza San Martin in the Argentine metropolis of Buenos Aires ; the Philharmonic from Buenos Aires played. The opening in front of around 500 invited guests was carried out by the mayor Mauricio Macri . Under the direction of the Minister of Culture, Hernàn Lombardi, the city was able to look back on 7 weeks of exhibition time with many events and hundreds of thousands of visitors. The 17th exhibition was opened in May in Montevideo in the presence of the President of Uruguay , Tabaré Vázquez , the Mayor of Montevideos, Ricardo Ehrlich and the German Ambassador to Uruguay, Bernhard Graf von Waldersee .
Warsaw,
Palace Square (2008)
Stuttgart,
Schloßplatz (2008)
Pyongyang,
Moranbong (2008)
Buenos Aires,
Plaza San Martin (2009)
2010-2014
The United Buddy Bears overwintered in Berlin for the first time and were exhibited from the end of November 2009 to mid-April 2010 in the Berlin Central Station (U 55) in the so-called Dudlerpassage . The exhibition - under the patronage of Federal Minister Ursula von der Leyen - was opened by the actress and special ambassador of the United Buddy Bears, Dennenesch Zoudé , as well as the Ambassador of Kazakhstan , Nurlan Onschanow , who announced that the next exhibition in the summer of 2010 in the heart of the Kazakh Capital Astana will be presented.
Akim ('Mayor') Imanghali Tasmaghambetow of Astana officially opened the aforementioned Buddy Bear exhibition in front of around two thousand invited guests and with many artistic and folkloric contributions from the ethnic groups of Kazakhstan in mid-May 2010 instead of in the summer . The exhibition, which lasted two and a half months, was located at the foot of the Bayterek Tower .
Astana (Kazakhstan),
Bayterek Tower (2010)
Helsinki,
Senate Square (2010)
Berlin, Central Station
"Indoor" (2010)
Sofia,
St. Nedelya Square (2011)
The 20th exhibition of the world tour, which Mayor Jussi Pajunen opened on Senate Square in Helsinki , took place in Northern Europe in September and October 2010. The German Embassy and the Goethe Institute in Finland were responsible for this exhibition , with the support of the City of Helsinki and DB Schenker .
The German Embassy in Sofia organized the Germany Weeks in Bulgaria under the motto Diversity in Germany . The Germany Weeks officially opened in early April 2011 with the United Buddy Bears art exhibition. The exhibition symbolizes international understanding and tolerance. The patronage was the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and the Mayoress of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova . The 22nd exhibition was opened in the hometown of the Buddy Bears on the occasion of the anniversary celebrations on the Kurfürstendamm on June 26, 2011 and was present there for over 3 months. The next trip took the Buddy Bears to Asia again, first to Southeast Asia, to the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur . Under the patronage of the Sultan of Selangor, the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, Tan Sri Ahmad Fuad bin Ismail, and the Minister of Tourism, Datuk Victor Wee, opened the exhibition around the fountain in front of the Pavilion KL , on the Boulevard Bukit Bintang , in December 2011 . in a festive, pre-Christmas setting, before it ended after almost 3 months and officially registered 2.5 million visitors with a ceremony in favor of children's aid activities.
Berlin
Kurfürstendamm (2011)
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia (2011/2012)
St. Petersburg
Alexander Park (2012)
Paris, Eiffel Tower
Champ de Mars (2012)
Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana (2014)
Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana (2014)
As part of the Germany Year Germany and India 2011–2012 , the United Buddy Bears were guests in New Delhi from March to May 2012 . Sheila Dikshit (Chief Minister of Delhi), Klaus Wowereit (Governing Mayor of Berlin) and Eva and Klaus Herlitz (initiators of the United Buddy Bears) opened the exhibition in Central Park at Connaught Place, in the heart of New Delhi. Thanks to the support of the Hamburg Süd shipping company and the logistician DB Schenker, the total of 147 bears were then transported in eight 40 'containers to St. Petersburg , where the exhibition near the Winter Palace ( Hermitage ) was hosted by Ulrich Brandenburg, the German ambassador in Moscow, at the end of June 2012 , was opened in Russia as part of the Year of Germany .
The exhibition opened in Paris in autumn 2012: The United Buddy Bears are ambassadors for Berlin and Germany and are a reminder in France that the foundation stone of Franco-German friendship was laid 50 years ago with the signing of the Élysée Treaty on January 22, 1963 . "Only on the solid foundation of Franco-German friendship can we succeed in shaping today's world," said Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle - in line with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU .
The exhibition was shown on the occasion of the German Year in Brazil - under the patronage of Frank-Walter Steinmeier - in May 2014 for the first time in a Portuguese-speaking country, in Brazil , in Rio de Janeiro , on the Copacabana . It was also free for all visitors to see on the beach in the Leme district during the World Cup . The initiative came from the German Consulate General as well as the city of Rio de Janeiro - the program included, among other things, local workshops that dealt in detail with the history and the message of the "Buddy Bears". Over a million visitors saw the exhibition.
In mid-December 2014, Cuba and the USA announced that they would normalize their relations after more than 50 years of diplomatic ice age. This was the reason for the Federal Foreign Office to send the United Buddy Bears to Havana from January to March 2015 . In the Plaza San Francisco de Asis , in the heart of the old town, the exhibition was organized by the city historian and unofficial mayor of the Cuban capital, Eusebio Leal Spengler , as well as by Irmgard Fellner (AA Berlin), Peter Scholz (German Ambassador to Cuba) and the initiators Eva and Klaus Herlitz officially opened.
From 2015
The eight containers with around 140 United Buddy Bears were shipped from the Cuban port of Mariel to Chile in mid-March 2015 , where the following exhibition opened in the Parque Bicentenario in the Vitacura district of Santiago at the end of April . The Chilean Foreign Minister Heraldo Benjamín Muñoz congratulated "all the artists who have contributed to making the" United Buddy Bears "an important cultural and charitable event of international importance during its 14-year journey through five continents".
The second exhibition in Southeast Asia followed in autumn 2016 ; the '' Chief Minister of Penang '' Lim Guan Eng opened the county in the capital of Penang , in George Town . In 2017 the exhibition returned to its hometown Berlin after six years. On the Christmas illuminated Walter-Benjamin-Platz ( Leibniz-Kolonnaden ), near the Kurfürstendamm , the 141 bears, designed by 141 artists from 141 countries - during the Advent season and at the turn of the year 2017/2018 - set an example for tolerance and a peaceful one Together. Marianne Freifrau von Weizsäcker was the patron of the exhibition . The opening was made by Sawsan Chebli , State Secretary in the Berlin Senate, the initiators Eva and Klaus Herlitz , together with representatives of seven major world religions, including Christians, Jews and Muslims.
At the invitation of the German Embassy in Riga , the exhibition was on view in July and August 2018 on Cathedral Square in the Latvian capital. The bears' first visit to the Baltic States was a gift from Germany to the people of Latvia on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the state.
Havana,
Plaza San Francisco de Asís (2015)
Santiago de Chile,
Parque Bicentenario (2015)
Berlin,
Walter-Benjamin-Platz (2017)
Riga,
Dom Square (2018)
In November 2018, the Ibero-American Summit took place in the World Heritage City of Antigua (Guatemala). A conference at the 22 heads of state or government from the countries of the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula came together. Germany took part as a guest of honor. As a gift from Germany, a Buddy Bear was presented by the German Ambassador Harald Klein on behalf of Chancellor Angela Merkel . From April to June 2019 the United Buddy Bears will have their first "double exhibition" in one country: First in the former capital Antigua, located in the central highlands of Guatemala , on the Plaza Mayor, then in today's capital Guatemala City , just 50 km away . in the Plaza de la Constitución .
Antigua (2019)
(Guatemala)
Guatemala City
Plaza de la Constitución
(2019)
Berlin Zoo
(2020)
On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Tierpark Berlin , the United Buddy Bears returned to Berlin after many stops. At the opening of this new highlight of the zoo in Friedrichsfelde, zoo and zoo director Andreas Knieriem also welcomed Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey , who, together with the governing mayor Michael Müller, has taken on the patronage of the exhibition. "With the Tierpark Berlin as a place of diversity, this extraordinary exhibition fits perfectly into the natural backdrop. On their world tour through five continents so far, the United Buddy Bears are promoting tolerance and understanding between peoples, cultures and religions. I wish that this important message will continue to be carried into the world through this project. "
Many more cities are in the pipeline, including Athens , Beijing , Singapore and Prague .
Overview of United Buddy Bears exhibitions
| date | Country / City Place of issue |
Patronage opening of the exhibition by |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 June – November |
 Germany Berlin / Next to the Brandenburg Gate - Pariser Platz |
Klaus Wowereit , Governing Mayor of Berlin |
| 2003 July – November |
Germany Berlin / Next to the Brandenburg Gate - Pariser Platz |
Sir Peter Ustinov , actor and UNICEF World Ambassador |
| 2004 January – February |
 Austria Kitzbühel / open spaces next to the tennis stadium |
Benita Ferrero-Waldner , Austrian Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Horst Wendling, Mayor of Kitzbühel |
| 2004 May – June |
 Hong Kong Hong Kong / Victoria Park |
Jackie Chan , actor and UNICEF International Ambassador Patrick Ho , Hong Kong's Secretary for Home Affairs |
| 2004/2005 December – January |
 Turkey Istanbul / Tepebaşı Pera Square |
Ahmet Misbah Demircan, Mayor of Beyoğlu Reiner Möckelmann , Consul General in Istanbul |
| 2005 April – May |
 Japan Tokyo / Roppongi Hills Mori Tower |
Jun'ichirō Koizumi , Prime Minister of Japan Horst Koehler , President of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2005 October – November |
 South Korea Seoul / Olympic Park |
Greetings from the Foreign Minister of South Korea, Ban Ki-moon |
| 2006 March – April |
 Australia Sydney / Sydney Opera House - Circular Quay |
John Howard , Prime Minister of Australia Ken Done , artist and UNICEF Ambassador to Australia |
| 2006 June – July |
Germany Berlin / Bebelplatz |
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Karin Schubert , Senator from Berlin Mia Farrow , American actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador |
| 2006 September – October |
Austria Vienna / Karlsplatz |
Grete Laska , Vice Mayor of the City of Vienna Karin Schubert , Senator of Berlin Christiane Hörbiger , actress and UNICEF ambassador |
| 2007 April – May |
 Egypt Cairo / Gezira Promenade - Zamalek |
Suzanne Mubarak , First Lady of Egypt Hans-Dietrich Genscher , former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Abdel Azim Wazir , Governor of Cairo |
| 2007 August – September |
 Israel Jerusalem / Safra Square |
Tzipi Livni , Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Amedi , Vice Mayor of Jerusalem Iris Berben , actress and winner of the 2004 Women's World Awards |
| 2008 May – June |
 Poland Warsaw / Palace Square |
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz , Mayor of Warsaw Klaus Wowereit , Governing Mayor of Berlin Anne Hidalgo , Vice Mayor of Paris |
| 2008 July – August |
Germany Stuttgart / Schloßplatz |
Wolfgang Schuster , Lord Mayor of Stuttgart |
| 2008 October |
 North Korea Pyongyang / Moran Hill , within sight of the bronze Kim Il Sung statue |
Mun Jae Chol, Foreign Affairs of North Korea Thomas Schäfer , German Ambassador to North Korea |
| 2009 March – April |
 Argentina Buenos Aires / Plaza San Martín |
Mauricio Macri , Mayor of Buenos Aires Hernán Lombardi , Minister for Cultural Affairs |
| 2009 May – June |
 Uruguay Montevideo / Plaza Independencia |
Tabaré Vázquez , President of Uruguay Ricardo Ehrlich , Mayor of Montevideo Bernhard Graf von Waldersee , German Ambassador to Uruguay |
| 2009/2010 November – April |
Germany Berlin / Hauptbahnhof , indoor for the first time |
Ursula von der Leyen , Federal Minister for Family and Youth Dennenesch Zoudé , actress and special ambassador for the United Buddy Bears |
| 2010 May – July |
 Kazakhstan Astana / At the foot of the Bayterek Tower |
Imanghali Tasmaghambetow , Akim von Astana Rainer Eugen Schlageter , German Ambassador to Kazakhstan |
| 2010 September – October |
 Finland Helsinki / Senate Square |
Jussi Pajunen , Mayor of Helsinki Peter Scholz , German Ambassador to Finland |
| 2011 April – May |
 Bulgaria Sofia / Sveta Nedelja Cathedral Square |
Jordanka Fandakowa , Mayor of Sofia Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's Governing Mayor Matthias Martin Höpfner , German Ambassador to Bulgaria |
| 2011 June – October |
Germany Berlin / Kurfürstendamm |
Klaus Wowereit , Governing Mayor of Berlin Monika Thiemen , Mayor of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf |
| 2011/2012 December – February |
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur / In front of the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur |
Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah , Sultan of Selangor Ahmad Fuad Ismail , Mayor of Kuala Lumpur |
| 2012 March – May |
 India New Delhi / Connaught Place |
Sheila Dikshit , Chief Minister of Delhi Klaus Wowereit , Governing Mayor of Berlin |
| 2012 June – August |
 Russia Saint Petersburg / Alexandrowskij sad |
Ulrich Brandenburg , German Ambassador to the Russian Federation Dmitry Mesphiev , Senator for Culture of St. Petersburg |
| 2012 October – November |
 France Paris / Eiffel Tower - Champ de Mars |
Guido Westerwelle , Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Schapira , Member of the European Parliament Susanne Wasum-Rainer , German Ambassador to France |
| 2014 April – July |
 Brazil Rio de Janeiro / Copacabana |
Eduardo Paes , Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Jürgen Trittin , Member of the German Bundestag Harald Klein , Consul General Rio de Janeiro |
| 2015 January – March |
 Cuba Havana , Plaza San Francisco de Asis |
Eusebio Leal , city historian of Havana and “Good Will Ambassador” of the United Nations Peter Scholz , German Ambassador to Cuba |
| 2015 April – June |
 Chile Santiago de Chile , Vitacura , Parque Bicentenario |
Edgardo Riveros Marín , Deputy Foreign Minister of Chile Hans Henning Blomeyer-Bartenstein , German Ambassador to Chile |
| 2016 August – October |
Malaysia Penang , Georg Town |
Lim Guan Eng , Chief Minister of Penang |
| 2017/2018 December – January |
Germany Berlin / Walter-Benjamin-Platz |
Marianne von Weizsäcker , patron of Sawsan Chebli , representative of the State of Berlin at the Bund Reinhard Naumann , Mayor of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf |
| 2018 July-August |
 Latvia Riga / Dom Square |
Dace Melbārde , Minister of Culture of Latvia Nils Ušakovs , Mayor of Riga Rolf Schütte , German Ambassador to Latvia |
| 2019 April – May |
 Guatemala Antigua / Parque Central |
Sandra Jovel , Foreign Minister of Guatemala Susana Asencio Lueg, Mayor of Antigua Harald Klein , German Ambassador |
| 2019 May – June |
Guatemala Guatemala City / Plaza de la Constitución |
Sandra Jovel , Foreign Minister of Guatemala Ricardo Quiñónez Lemus , Mayor of Guatemala City Eva Herlitz and Harald Klein |
| 2020 July– |
Germany Berlin / Tierpark Berlin |
Franziska Giffey , Federal Minister for the Michael Müller Family , Governing Mayor of Berlin Andreas Knieriem , Director of the Zoo, Tierpark and Aquarium Berlin Eva Herlitz and Klaus Herlitz |
United Buddy Bears - The Minis
Many of the international artists have also designed a small United Buddy Bear one meter tall for their country, which together also form a circle. This circle, called The Minis , was exhibited at different locations in Germany, such as the Sony Center in Berlin, Frankfurt Airport , the Babelsberg Film Park , Wasserburg on Lake Constance and the Osnabrück Zoo . The first exhibitions outside of Germany took place in Bratislava ( Slovakia ) and Borås ( Sweden ) in 2012 .
For ten years the Buddy Bears have been traveling around the world as ambassadors for peace, tolerance and international understanding. Ex-Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, “In 2013 there is no better place for you to take a break than here in Germany, in Gladbeck , where we are celebrating the year of tolerance as part of the Luther Decade ! The Martin Luther Forum Ruhr brings Luther and Buddy Bears together. A clear signal that we need tolerance and international understanding, especially when dealing with foreign religions and cultures, with people of different or non-believers. This is not done with isolation, but only through a real dialogue - according to the motto of the Buddy Bears initiators: We have to get to know each other better, then we can understand each other better, trust more and live together better. "
The smaller version of the United Bears was present at the end of the Germany Year in Russia in Yekaterinburg ( Russia ). The opening was made by the mayor Alexander Edmundowitsch Jakob, the German consul general Andreas Klaßen and the initiators, Klaus Herlitz. At the end of 2013 the one meter tall bears were exhibited in Calais ( France ).
In summer 2015 the "United Buddy Bears - The Minis" traveled to Kazan , the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan ( Russia ). In the summer of 2017, they were on Wittenbergplatz in Berlin-Schöneberg , not far from KaDeWe .
criticism
In the Sculpture.Projects 2007, Andreas Siekmann included Trickle down with his contribution . The public space in the age of its privatization is critical of this form of urban art , in which the urban space is taken over by private companies. For his work of art, Siekmann said he smashed 13 figures with the help of a scrap press and placed a ball formed from the remains - together with the press - in front of the Erbdrostenhof in Münster.
literature
- Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz: United Buddy Bears - The Art of Tolerance on World Tour . Self-published Berlin 2017/2018, ISBN 978-3-00-057649-2 .
- Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz: Buddy Bear Berlin . 4th edition, self-published, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-051097-7 .
- Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz: United Buddy Bears - The Art of Tolerance . Self-published, Berlin 2009/2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029417-4 .
- Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz: United Buddy Bears - World Tour . NeptunArt Publisher, 2006, ISBN 3-85820-189-8 .
- Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz (eds.): United Buddy Bears - The Art of Tolerance. 2nd Edition. Bostelmann & Siebenhaar, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936962-00-6 (bilingual: German / English).
- Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz: Buddy Bear Berlin Show. Neptun Verlag, Kreuzlingen 2001, ISBN 3-85820-152-9 .
- Jian-Min Huang: Public Art as Festival . Hong Kong 2005, ISBN 986-7487-48-6 (title page and pp. 63–111: Buddy Bears ; bilingual: Chinese / English).
Web links
- Website of Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH - including a bear gallery and press articles
- Website of the Buddy Bear Help e. V.
- Website of the BB photographer with thousands of photos
- Jackie Chan & United Buddy Bears
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Kilimann, Rasso Knoller, Christian Nowak: Berlin - sights, culture, scene, excursions, tips . 2nd Edition. Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89794-269-1 , p. 140.
- ↑ a b c Andreas Kurtz: Papa Bear . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 23, 2017, p. 11.
- ↑ The National, Art & Culture, May 28, 2019: "'It represents solidarity between people': the UAE's first Buddy Bear is unveiled at Abu Dhabi Mall"
- ↑ Buddy Bears in Buenos Aires
- ↑ Buddy Bears in Shanghai
- ^ Buddy Bears in St. Gallen
- ↑ Panorama picture of the Buddy Bear Kicker
- ↑ Louvre Paris - A Buddy Bear is missing in Berlin Central Station! ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 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.
- ↑ Buddy Bear Quadriga ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 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.
- ↑ Video: Interactive Buddy Bear at the main train station ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 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.
- ↑ Human Rights Logo
- ↑ buddy-baer.com: Charity activities
- ↑ Buddy Bear campaign breaks the two million euro mark . In: WAZ , November 23, 2013.
- ^ Buddy Bear Help e. V. ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost , March 2, 2011, p. 28.
- ↑ Videos of the United Buddy Bears exhibitions worldwide
- ^ Peter Ustinov & Buddy Bears
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - Hong Kong ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Buddy Bear in Hong Kong
- ↑ Jackie Chan & Buddy Bears
- ^ The Year of Germany in Japan 2005 ( Memento from July 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - Seoul 2005 ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Dorothee Dubrau : Architekturführer Berlin-Mitte Volume 2, Berlin 2009, pp. 1078-1079, ISBN 978-3-938666-07-4 .
- ↑ Mia Farrow & United Buddy Bears
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - Cairo 2007
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - Jerusalem 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2007 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.
- ↑ Ban Ki-moon & Buddy Bears
- ^ The Seoul Times 2008
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Pyongyang 2008
- ^ Exhibition in Pyongyang, FAZ October 25, 2008
- ^ FAZ , October 25, 2008.
- ↑ Panoramic picture 360 °: United Buddy Bears in Buenos Aires 2009
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost , April 15, 2009, p. 28.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - Montevideo 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2012 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.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Berlin Central Station 2010
- ↑ Dennenesch Zoudé and United Buddy Bears ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2014 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.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Helsinki 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - Helsinki 2010 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 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.
- ↑ Website of the German Embassy Sofia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel , June 26, 2011.
- ^ Ambassador of Peace
- ↑ German Embassy Kuala Lumpur: "United Buddy Bears in Kuala Lumpur" ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 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.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears World Tour, Kuala Lumpur
- ↑ My Sinchew December 9, 2011
- ↑ Video: United Buddy Bears in Kuala Lumpur
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Malaysia
- ↑ Germany and India 2011–2012 . Goethe-Institut website , accessed on July 4, 2013.
- ↑ Video: United Buddy Bears in New Delhi
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in New Delhi
- ↑ The St. Petersburg Times, July 4, 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2013 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.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears on their way to Russia ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Greetings from the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Guido Westerwelle, on the exhibition of the “United Buddy Bears” in Paris (PDF; 301 kB)
- ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, October 12, 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Greetings from the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on the exhibition of the 147 “United Buddy Bears” in Rio de Janeiro
- ↑ Südwest Presse, June 11, 2014: 145 Buddy Bears for the World Cup excursion to Rios Copacabana
- ↑ German Consulate General Rio de Janeiro: "United Buddy Bears"
- ↑ Brazil Portal: The exhibition of "Buddy Bears" comes to Rio de Janeiro, in the name of tolerance and peace
- ↑ Kisses for the cuddly bears . Deutsche Welle, July 3, 2014.
- ↑ Die Welt Kompakt, January 19, 2015: Buddy Bears for Reconciliation between Cuba and the USA
- ↑ Süddeutsche.de, January 17, 2015 - Video: "Buddy Bears in Cuba" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Cuba Hora: Adiós, y gracias, United Budy Bears
- ↑ T13, 20, April 2015: "Osos por la tolerancia: Exposición" United Buddy Bears "llega a Chile por primera vez"
- ↑ Condor: April 24, 2015: Embajada alemana invita a las familias chilenas a la exposión international "United Buddy Bears"
- ↑ a b United Buddy Bears on Walter-Benjamin-Platz in Berlin , www.buddy-bear.com; accessed on December 1, 2017.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears on Walter-Benjamin-Platz in Berlin
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Riga
- ↑ Berlin.de: "100 Years of Latvia: Bears and Classical Music as a Gift"
- ↑ General-Anzeiger, Bonn, July 13, 2018: "Berlin Buddy Bears in Riga"
- ↑ La Red November 15, 2018: "Oso de Berlín, embajador de Angela Merkel en Cumbre Iberoamericana 2018"
- ↑ Diario de Centro América, 15/11/18: "Cancilleres develan Oso Iberoamericano, muestra de solidaridad y amistad entre Alemania y la región"
- ↑ Los 148 osos que promoverán la convivencia, el respeto y la tolerancia estarán en junio en la Ciudad de Guatemala. In: Prensa Libre. January 21, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ 2019: El hito cultural que marcará el año en Guatemala. In: Soy 502. January 3, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 (Spanish).
- ^ Exhibition in the Plaza de la Constitución, Guatemala City
- ↑ Berliner Abendblatt, July 3, 2020: "Berlin-Friedrichsfelde: Bear visit to the zoo"
- ^ Tokyo 2005
- ↑ Berlin 2006
- ↑ Cairo 2007
- ↑ Berlin - Central Station 2010
- ↑ Video: United Buddy Bears in Sofia, Bulgaria ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2012 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.
- ↑ Buddy Bears promote global understanding; New Straits Times, December 15, 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2011 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.
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- ↑ New Delhi 2012 ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 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.
- ^ Bears of the world unite
- ↑ Goethe-Institut Russia: Year of Germany in Russia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2013 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.
- ↑ Panorama picture St.Petersburg ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2012 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.
- ↑ Opening in St. Petersburg ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2013 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.
- ^ French embassy in Berlin: "Berlin Buddy Bears under the Eiffel Tower"
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Paris, Video 2012
- ↑ Today - News from ZDF on October 12, 2012, 7 p.m. ( Memento from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ TV report Globo : Exposição de ursos no Leme encanta os cariocas
- ↑ Today - ZDF news, May 1, 2014, 7 p.m.
- ↑ Ruptly TV Brazil: 'United Buddy Bears' in Rio 2014
- ↑ DFB: WM-Splitter: United Buddy Bears - the art of tolerance .
- ↑ amerika21, December 27, 2014: 128 Berlin bear sculptures in Havana
- ↑ rbb-online: Berlin Buddy Bears are now in Havana
- ↑ “Germany sends peace message through sculptures in Cuba” ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 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.
- ↑ Pictures from the exhibition of the “United Buddy Bears” in Havana 2015
- ^ Cóndor, German-Chilean weekly newspaper, March 5, 2015: “United Buddy Bears” se exhibirá en Santiago
- ↑ United Buddy Bears in Penang
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 25, 2018: "100 Years of Latvia: Bears and Classical Music as a Gift". Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 25, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ "Tolerance and international understanding, fun and a good cause - Ceremonial opening of the exhibition 'United Buddy Bears' on Riga Cathedral Square"
- ↑ Carribian-News (German): "United Buddy Bears: This year a cultural highlight in Guatemala" ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ República, April 29, 2019: "La exposición de Osos Buddy en Antigua Guatemala que debes ver"
- ↑ News in America, April 9, 2019: "Un mensaje de tolerancia y paz llega a Guatemala"
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, July 2nd, 2020: "146 colorful bears now adorn Tierpark Berlin"
- ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, July 28, 2011
- ^ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 17, 2011
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - The Minis in Bratislava 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2013 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.
- ↑ Video Borås 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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.
- ↑ BoråsBorås TME FROM Nov. 8, 2012
- ↑ F.-W. Steinmeier helps with the search for a sponsor (PDF; 248 kB). In: WAZ , February 8, 2013.
- ^ TV report, June 21, 2013, United Buddy Bears in Yekaterinburg
- ↑ Impressions of the United Buddy Bears - The Minis in Yekaterinburg
- ↑ United Buddy Bears - The Mini in Calais ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 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.
- ↑ TV report about the exhibition in Kazan (Russia)
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