Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) is an international student housing estate founded in 1925 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . It is home to around 10,000 students, scientists and artists every year.
General
The Cité is divided into 40 different houses (two houses in the 19th arrondissement and one outside of Paris on the Île de Bréhat in Brittany ), which are usually assigned to a nation, Germany is represented by the Maison Heinrich Heine and Switzerland with the Fondation Suisse . In each house, around half of the residents belong to the nationality of the respective house, the other half is made up of other nationalities. This is intended to promote international exchange. The CIUP currently hosts students and researchers from more than 120 countries.
The individual "houses" of the CIUP regularly organize cultural and political events of high quality, which also attract international celebrities from politics and culture. In addition, the CIUP houses its own theater, its own orchestra and a variety of other student groups in the fields of sport, art and culture. The CIUP also has an architectural appeal. The Swiss house was built by the architect Le Corbusier , who also planned the Brazilian house (Maison du Brésil).
The prerequisite for admission to the Cité Internationale is a comprehensive application that should demonstrate professional and social suitability.
history
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris was founded in 1925 with the help of industrial patrons, bankers and foreign foundations. The aim of the institution was and is not only to offer future elites the best possible working conditions, but also (initiated after the trauma of the First World War ) to promote international exchange, peace and friendship between peoples .
location
The Cité Internationale is located in the area of the former Zone non aedificandi in a park of 34 hectares in the south of Paris. It represents the largest concentration of student residences in the Ile de France .
The Cité is located at the Cité Universitaire des RER B station (last / first station in the core zone) and the T3 tram. It can also be reached via line 4 , Porte d'Orléans station.
The individual houses
Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe (1923)
Financed by a generous donation from Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe , designed by Lucien Bechmann and completed in 1923, the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe is an exception in the Cité U - it is not a single house, but seven of them.
Six pavilions accommodate students and doctoral students, one pavilion is reserved for administration and service. There is a large ballroom in the basement, mailboxes, a laundry room with washing machines and dryers and a fitness studio. In the second basement there are rehearsal rooms for musicians and a table tennis table.
On the ground floor there is a dance hall as well as the administration and secretariat premises. Even the Gardien , the guardian and gatekeeper here has his box. The secretariat and porter's lodge are staffed around the clock. The library is located on the first floor and is equipped not only with books but also with a dozen computers with Internet access. On the second floor there is also a TV room and lounge.
A WLAN offers convenient access to the Internet , which has been spread across all seven buildings since 2006 and whose use is included in the monthly rent ( redevance , i.e. fee ) of around 370 euros (as of 2009/10, tariff for students) . Housed in the residential pavilions, there is also a photo laboratory and a bicycle cellar in Deutsch de la Meurthe. A total of around 380 students and doctoral candidates from all over the world live in Deutsch de la Meurthe.
Personalities such as the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre , the Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor and the former French Economics and Finance Minister Raymond Barre also lived in Deutsch de la Meurthe during their studies .
Heinrich Heine House ( Maison Heinrich Heine ) (1956)
The Heinrich-Heine-Haus is the German house of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. It was opened in 1956, built according to plans by the architect Johannes Krahn . Its name pays tribute to the poet Heinrich Heine , who lived in Paris for many years. The Heine House houses around 100 students and doctoral students, the majority of whom are of German origin. According to the statutes, around 50% of the places should be given to non-German students in exchange with other houses of the CIUP; in fact, the non-German students rarely make up more than about a third of the residents.
The rooms are equipped with their own washbasin, shared toilets and showers and a kitchen are in the hallway. The kitchens are equipped with large wooden tables and chairs and are the center of encounter and coexistence. The Heinrich-Heine-Haus also offers its residents lounges, music studios and a TV room . The monthly rent is 410 € (as of September 2012).
In addition to its function as a student residence, the Heine-Haus sees itself as a cultural meeting place. Exhibitions, concerts, colloquiums and lectures take place regularly , in addition to (and sometimes in competition) with the Goethe-Institut . Guests were among others Edgar Reitz , Burghart Klaußner and Nora-Eugenie Gomringer . Every now and then talented residents get the opportunity to play at these concerts themselves. The colloquia do not stop at controversial topics. For example, a one-day colloquium was dedicated to the author Elfriede Jelinek, who is controversial because of her vulgar and obscene texts .
The Heine House houses a German-language library. This is also available to external users (with a knowledge of German) free of charge.
The Heinrich-Heine-Haus also hosted a number of well-known personalities during their study visit to Paris, including the former President of the DAAD , Theodor Berchem , and the political scientist Arnulf Baring .
The Maison Heinrich Heine is located on the southern edge of the Cité Universitaire, directly on the Parisian city motorway Boulevard Périphérique . Christiane Deussen has been the director since 2002.
Literature: Maison Heinrich Heine Paris - Quarante ans de présence culturelle 1956-1996 , Bonn / Paris 1998 (400 pages with numerous black and white photos and index of names)
Swedish House ( Maison des Etudiants Suédois ) (1931)
The Swedish house, built in 1931 by then Crown Prince Gustav VI. Adolf (Sweden) and the French President Paul Doumer inaugurated, is one of the smallest houses of the Cité Universitaire. Since its renovation in 1994, it has 43 rooms and two studios. In terms of admission requirements, it follows the guidelines of the mixture of nations in the houses of the Cité Universitaire and accommodates not only Swedes, but also French and students of other nationalities.
From the beginning, the Swedish house organized cultural evenings ( soirées culturelles ), first with writers such as Jules Romains and André Maurois , and later with the novelist Michel Butor , the journalist André Fontaine and the tenor Jussi Björling . For several years the director of the Swedish house was also the head of the Swedish Institute ( Institut suédois ) in Paris.
Today, the offered cultural events include traditional Swedish festivals as well as concerts and exhibitions. Is a big celebration in particular the Lucia celebration on December 13th and the Walpurgis Night on April 30.
It is said that there has been a house for Swedish students in Paris since the 13th century when 12 young theology students from Uppsala came to study at the Sorbonne. That Swedish house is said to have been called Collegium Upsalienses . At the beginning of the 12th century there were also 2 schools ( collèges ) of the Dioceses of Linköping and Skara .
Maison du Brésil
The Maison du Brésil ( German House of Brazil) was completed in 1959 and designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier in collaboration with Lúcio Costa . Furniture designed for the building is also on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
More houses
In chronological order. The opening date is given. The list is incomplete.
- 1926: Maison des Etudiants Canadiens (House of Canada)
- 1927: Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre (home of the Belgian and Luxembourg students)
- 1928: Maison de l'Institut national agronomique
- 1928: Fondation Argentine (Argentine Foundation) by René Betourné , L. Fagnez and Tito Saubidé
- 1929: Maison du Japon (House of Japan)
- 1930: Maison des Etudiants de l'Asie du Sud-Est (House of Southeast Asian Students, originally and until 1972 Maison de l'Indochine ) by Pierre Martin and Maurice Vieu
- 1930: Maison des Etudiants Arméniens (House of Armenia) by Léon Nafilyan
- 1930: Maison des Etats-Unis (The USA Foundation)
- 1932: Abreu de Grancher Foundation ( Abreu de Grancher Foundation) by Albert Laprade , financed by a Cuban foundation, now managed by the CIUP.
- 1932: Fondation Danoise (House of Denmark)
- 1932: Fondation Hellénique (House of Greece)
- 1933: Pavillon Suisse (Swiss Pavilion) by Le Corbusier
- 1933: Maison des Provinces de France (House of France)
- 1937: Collège d'Espagne (House of Spain)
- 1937: Fondation de Monaco (House of Monaco)
- 1937: Collège Franco-Britannique built thanks to a donation from Edward and Helen Nathan.
- 1938: Collège Néerlandais - Fondation Juliana (House of the Netherlands, Juliana Foundation) by Willem Marinus Dudok
- 1950: Victor Lyon Foundation
- 1950: Maison des Arts et Métiers House of ENSAM students ( École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers )
- 1951: Résidence Lucien Paye , formerly Maison de la France d'Outre Mer (for students from the French overseas territory)
- 1953: Maison du Maroc (House of Morocco)
- 1953: Maison de la Tunisie (House of Tunisia)
- 1953: Maison du Mexique (House of Mexico)
- 1954: Maison de Norvège (House of Norway)
- 1956: Maison des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires
- 1957: Maison du Cambodge (House of Cambodia), closed between 1973 and 2003.
- 1958: Maison de l'Italie (House of Italy)
- 1959: Maison du Cambodge (House of Cambodia)
- 1963: Maison du Liban (House of Lebanon)
- 1967: Résidence André de Gouveia (House of Portugal)
- 1968: Maison de l'Inde (House of India)
- 1969: Fondation Avicenne ( Avicenna Foundation), until 1979 Maison de l'Iran (Iranian House), built by Claude Parent .
- 2005: Résidence Lila in the 19th arrondissement
- 2007: Résidence Quai de la Loire in the 19th arrondissement
- 2016: Maison Île de France
Web links
- Homepage of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (French)
- Location of the individual houses in the area of the Cité Universitaire - be careful with your orientation, on this map south is above and north is below! (PDF file; 1.07 MB)
- Homepage of the Maison Heinrich Heine (French)
- Presentation of the Deutsch de la Meurthe (French)
- Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe. In: Structurae
- Homepage of the Swedish House
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris: House "Haraucourt Donation" on the Île de Bréhat (accessed on April 20, 2011)
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 3 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 8 ″ E