Storytelling café

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A participatory and interactive method of autobiographically oriented storytelling is called a narrative café . It is a low-threshold educational opportunity and differs in its explicit biographical reference and the accompanying self-reflection from factual arguing and discussions in round tables as well as from “talking about others” or coffee gossip . In the narrative café, everyday stories are valued by ordinary people in a pleasant atmosphere. In adult education and senior work , the storytelling café is a popular way of giving people the space to relate their experiences to the experiences of others and to the historical and social framework of their time. The aim is to listen carefully and to appreciate each individual.

method

In adult education and social work one speaks of a "storytelling café" method. The focus is on listening to and telling life stories that are related to a thematic background and are reflected upon together. The communicative rules according to which the exchange takes place should be made clear in advance. The moderator's task is to ensure compliance with the agreed rules during the event.

There are various narrative café formats and variations in the German-speaking area. In a variant, a person invited by an organizer tells from their own experience about issues that are personally significant, but in which the audience is also interested. Emotions shouldn't be hidden. The combination of feelings and facts make it attractive for the narrative flow and for the audience. The audience initially has the role of the listener, then has the opportunity to ask questions and discuss individual aspects in more detail with the speaker (narrator). The audience has an important function: it promotes the narration through questions and hints that the narrator did not immediately think of. The atmosphere is less formal than familiar or even familiar because it is about content that affects emotionally. In the further variant, a group, accompanied by a prepared moderator, exchanges individual experiences on a defined topic. The moderator spans the past, present and future and allows the participants to reflect on their experiences over the course of time. At the same time, differences and similarities between generations and living environments become clear, which can lead to the reduction of prejudices.

history

The narrative café method has been used since 1987 as an educational offer and dynamic, interactive form of biography work in social work. The idea of ​​founding narrative cafés came to life in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Numerous narrative cafés were set up where East and West Berliners could get to know each other as new neighbors. This revived a forgotten narrative culture and was so successful that it spread in many cities.

See also: Oral tradition

Storytelling cafés in the German-speaking area

Germany

The Frankfurter Erzählcafé is a series of events in the tradition of oral history . It was founded in 1990 by the "Institute for Social Work" in Frankfurt am Main and has been a permanent part of the Institute for Urban History since 1998.

Several narrative cafés have sprung up in Berlin, for example since 2001 in the Kreativhaus , a cross-generational project, as a moderated discussion group on art, culture, literature and life and at the Friends of Old People Association , a member of the international federation les petits frères des Pauvres .

In the Center for General Scientific Further Education (ZAWiW) at the University of Ulm, older people meet with people of the same age and younger in the narrative café under the motto "Give history a face".

The first narrative café for survivors of the Nazi regime is offered in Cologne as a place for exchange and encounter by the Federal Association of Information & Advice for Victims of Nazism.

In 2013, the Bund Naturschutz organized a narrative café in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bremen on the occasion of a Hundertwasser exhibition.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, a narrative café has been held in Zurich's urban center Karl der Grosse since 2007 . It was opened by a surprise guest who told an episode or anecdote from his life.

In 2015 the network Erzählcafé Schweiz, a network of narrative café moderators, sponsors and interested parties, was created. The network offers workshops and workshop discussions and operates a homepage with a public agenda of narrative cafés taking place throughout Switzerland.

Austria

The Austrian Institute for Biography Work regularly offers moderated narrative cafés on specific topics, such as "My apprenticeship and traveling years" and "That used to be chic!"

At a conference on Protestant identities after 1945 in Austria at the Evangelical Academy in Vienna, scientific lectures were supplemented by storytelling cafés with contemporary witnesses and documented in the conference proceedings.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johanna Kohn, Ursula Caduff: Leading narrative cafés: Biography work with old people . In: Bernhard Haupert, Sigrid Schilling, Susanne Maurer (Eds.): Biography work and biography research in social work: Contributions to a reconstructive perspective of social professions . Peter Lang Verlag, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-0343-0406-1 .
  2. ↑ Horst Siebert: Methods for Educational Work: Guide for activating teaching , Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7639-1993-2 , p. 93 f.
  3. ↑ The narrative café as a method . Workshop on biography work, contemporary witnesses and generational dialogue, Protestant conference and study center Boldern, Switzerland  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intergeneration.ch
  4. ↑ a b c Eva M. Antz: Generations learn together: Methods for intergenerational educational work , Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7639-3883-4 , p. 69
  5. ↑ LIFE STORIES: Former guest workers in Höhr-Grenzhausen , Department of Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Koblenz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8423-3185-3 , p. 62
  6. ^ Website of the narrative café in the center of Karl der Grosse in Zurich
  7. ↑ Michael Fleiter (ed.): Witnesses of their time in the Frankfurter Erzählcafé. A documentation , Institute for Social Work eV, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-928053-41-8
  8. ↑ Frankfurt storytelling café. Keyvan Dahesch: As a blind man on a tandem from Passau to Vienna , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 17, 2004
  9. ↑ ErzählCafé, Kreativhaus Berlin
  10. ↑ Erzählcafé, Freunde alter Menschen eV Berlin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.famev.de
  11. ↑ Erzählcafé - Giving Faces to History, Ulm University
  12. ↑ The first Cologne storytelling and meeting café for victims of Nazi persecution ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nsberatung.de
  13. ↑ Kunsthalle Bremen
  14. ↑ Narrative café in the center of Karl der Grosse in Zurich ( Memento of the original from March 24, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzaehl-cafe.ch
  15. ↑ Network Erzählcafé Switzerland: Network Erzählcafé Switzerland - Chronicle. Retrieved September 18, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ Narrative Café. Tell - Listen - Remember, Austrian Institute for Biography Work
  17. ↑ Evangelical Identities after 1945, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Bildungswerke in Österreich (AEBW) ( Memento of the original from April 26, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aebw.at