Center Français de Berlin

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Center Francais de Berlin GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
Seat Müllerstrasse 74, 13349 Berlin
management Florian Fangmann
Managing Director
Number of employees 9 (as of 2015)
Branch Cultural center , hotel
Website www.centre-francais.de/de

The Center Français de Berlin (CFB, German : French Center of Berlin ) is a German - French cultural center in Berlin . It is located in the same building as the Hôtel de France .

history

The Center Français de Berlin on Müllerstrasse with the miniature Eiffel Tower

The French military government had a new building built on a previously undeveloped site from 1960 to 1961, with the center being opened in 1961 under the name Center Culturel Français . Until 1992 it was operated as a cultural center by French armed forces who had occupied part of Berlin . The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 resulted in the withdrawal of the occupying powers, which is why the French troops also withdrew and the center was closed.

The building complex at Müllerstrasse 74 was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the two-plus-four contract and the unification agreement . The governments of France and Germany have come to the conclusion that the center should be reopened “in the spirit of Franco-German friendship” and “the European idea of international understanding ”. The building was rebuilt over a period of around two years and reopened in 1994 as the Center Français de Berlin. The French Embassy , the German-French Understanding Foundation , the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , the Senate Department for School, Youth and Sport for the Senate of Berlin , the City of Paris and the Wedding District Office were involved in the new direction .

organization

On the French side, the Center d'Échanges Internationaux (CEI), based in Paris, is responsible as the sponsoring association ; on the German side, it is the Stiftung Sozialpädagogisches Institut Berlin .

The staff consists of nine people (as of 2015). Employees are regularly employed as part of the European Voluntary Service and the Franco-German Voluntary Service.

tasks

The Center Français de Berlin has seven main tasks. These are the ones

  1. Organization of international exchange projects (school, extracurricular, group or individual exchange) for young people and professionals,
  2. the revival of the city ​​partnership between Paris and Berlin in the form of the "Paris-Berlin tandem" with the support of the Berlin Senate,
  3. maintaining the diversity and participation network with the support of the FGYO ,
  4. the coordination of the individual student exchange program Voltaire ,
  5. promoting professional mobility and supporting young people in their project in the partner country,
  6. the care of a local cultural center as a meeting place with cultural events,
  7. the provision of the premises for socio-cultural projects in the public interest and for the training of young people.

See also

Web links

Commons : Center Français de Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .
  2. ^ Center Culturel Français. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .
  3. ↑ The Center Français. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b History of the CFB. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Annual report CFB 2013. ( PDF ) Retrieved on August 1, 2014 .
  6. ↑ The CFB. Retrieved August 1, 2014 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 30.3 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 20.6 ″  E