Euregional Media Center Aachen

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The Euregional Media Center of the City and CitiesRegion Aachen (formerly Media Center of the District of Aachen and Stadtbildstelle Aachen ) with the participation of the German-speaking Community of Belgium provides educational institutions in the catchment area (didactic) media packages via the online media service EDMOND NRW and lends pedagogically supported media technology. In addition, the employees of the media center advise and qualify teachers and specialists in media education and technology. In the school environment, the Euregional Media Center cooperates under one roof with the media consultants of the competence team of the Aachen city region in the form of a state-communal community of responsibility. The media center has been based in the former tram depot on Talstrasse in Aachen since 2017 . The basis for the operation of the intermunicipal and cross-border facility is an agreement under public law between the three above-mentioned contractual partners, the first version of which came into force on September 10, 1999 with the approval of the Cologne District Government and which was revised by the same on January 1, 2018 has been.

Foundation of a picture and film office in Aachen (1924–1929)

On April 1, 1924, the city school councilor Peter Kremer founded the “Bildspielbund Deutscher Städtische”, Landesverband Aachen, and set up a picture and film station in a tower of the city hall of the city administration of Aachen. At the same time he opened a school cinema in Westpark Aachen . The Bild- und Filmstelle then provided educational media and equipment for the film screenings there and for the schools in the region. The first photographs and cultural films bought were “ Der Berg des Schicksals ” by Luis Trenker and the Waldemar Bonsels film “ Maya the Bee ”. With the establishment of the facility, the schools began to be equipped with devices for glass projection. Series of photos and films as well as screening licenses were purchased from the teaching material fund for the students. By 1929, an archive of around 4,500 photos and 70,000 meters of film was created in the Bild- und Filmstelle. The series of photographs were made available to the schools free of charge for lessons, while the films were shown in the Westparkkino for an entrance fee of 0.15  Reichsmarks per pupil.

The cityscape during National Socialism (1934–1945)

In 1934, the Prussian minister of education Bernhard Rust , who belonged to the NSDAP , was commissioned to set up a Reich Ministry for Science, Education and Public Education . In the course of this, he issued a resolution on June 26, 1934, which made the picture offices official and obligated every city and district to set up and expand a picture office. The main task was to show the pupils the cultural and educational films selected by the then Ministry of Education, Popular Education and Propaganda and considered suitable. Through the decree, the "Bildspielbund German Cities", which had only been semi-official until then, received full state support. From then on, the tasks of the former image and film office were continued under the name Stadtbildstelle Aachen with the identification number A40B. With steady funding of 13,000 Reichsmarks per year, the loan from the Stadtbildstelle has been steadily expanded. The school cinema in Westpark was completely destroyed during the war. After the war, this resulted in the new approach of equipping the schools themselves with sufficient technology and supplying them with the appropriate image and sound material via the cityscape center. At the same time, a new film theater was planned for the youth in Aachen.

Reconstruction of the media and equipment inventory (1945–1957)

In 1945 the Stadtbildstelle was at Pontstrasse 13 in Aachen. The walls and ceilings of the picture area were badly damaged due to water damage. Overall, the cityscape area suffered a quarter of a million damage. All film and recording devices, film cameras and almost all still picture devices were lost during the war. In addition, the occupying powers confiscated 2/3 of the still existing photographs and 14 films for history lessons in all existing copies. However, subsidies of 2,000 to 3,000 DM annually from the state to repair war damage, special funds from the Grenzlandfonds for the procurement of teaching materials and the support of the Düsseldorf company Liesegang , with which the Stadtbildstelle already worked closely before the outbreak of war, made a reconstruction possible . At that time, the use of film and image was strongly promoted in schools because there was a lack of other learning materials. The "Working Regulations for the City and District Image Offices" of the Minister of Education of North Rhine-Westphalia of September 26, 1946 included the obligation to create image areas and expanded the areas of responsibility as follows:

  • Educational tasks: The Stadtbildstelle advises and supports authorities, school and extracurricular educational and cultural institutions for all age groups in the use of film and image.
  • Collection task: Films, pictures and records are collected, loaned and archived.
  • Technical tasks: the film, radio and image devices are managed, used and repaired if necessary. The educational staff is given technical advice and trained in how to use the devices.

Expansion and cooperation (1957–1983)

Only twelve years after the Second World War , in 1957, the cross-border exchange of cultural goods and German-language teaching material with the German-speaking community of Belgium began. The Stadtbildstelle gained more and more relevance. Every year around 20,000 films and 4,000 picture series were loaned out at the facility. In 1960, that made about 100 loans a day. With the increasing lending activity, the importance of the Bildstellen also grew as an advisory institution on all questions relating to the use of optical-acoustic educational materials, especially when working with teachers, lecturers and youth educators. The expansion of the rental and consulting activities made larger premises imperative. In 1962, the Bildstelle therefore moved to Bergstrasse 14 in Aachen. In the basement of the community secondary school Sandkaulstrasse, the Stadtbildstelle had modern rooms for lending, archive, workshop, photo area with laboratory and recording studio. The Bildstelle was now also involved in regional film productions.

In the 1963 administrative report of the city of Aachen, the task of the Stadtbildstelle is summarized as follows: “ The Stadtbildstelle sees an essential task in serving upbringing and education. It fulfills its function with the help of the new means of expression created by technology. There are rich educational possibilities in film and photographs, in audio tapes and in records. In this sense, everything that the picture area produces with a view to pupils, young people and adults is created in the service of human education. "

Increasing digitization changes the areas of responsibility (1983-2000)

In 1983, the first PCs came to the vocational schools in the Aachen district, including the Commodore 64 . The increasing digitization of schools also called into question the need for media centers to supply educational institutions with analog learning materials. Media could soon be accessed via the Internet. The focus was increasingly on those services that went beyond the mere provision of media and contributed to the qualification of the communal educational and cultural landscape in dealing with media. In 1988, the media pedagogical advisory and training offers for the extracurricular area were expanded. Just ten years later, the Stadtbildstelle procured the first digital media. From 2001, these were made digitally available to schools via the online media service EDMOND NRW. A haptic loan continued to take care of those teachers who could not access EDMOND NRW due to their equipment. In the selection of didactic media packages for distribution, the Bildstelle has been pedagogically supported by a primary school teacher from the city of Aachen since the end of the 1990s.

District and cityscape offices become Euregional media center (2000 – today)

On January 1, 2000, the city and district image offices were officially merged to form the "Euregional Media Center Aachen" with the participation of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Since then, the media center has been supplying and advising around 750 educational institutions in the catchment area with media and media technology and also supports them in developing media skills . Since the school year 2000/2001, the media center has been working under one roof with teachers from the region who have been delegated by the Cologne district government for the field of school media education. These are initially managed under the term e-Teams and have been available to all schools in the city and city region of Aachen for technical and pedagogical qualification offers since the 2007/2008 school year as media consultants for the competence team of the city region. The state-communal community of responsibility in the form of the media center and the media consultants was initially housed in the premises at Blücherplatz 43 in Aachen and in 2017 moved to the renovated former tram depot at Talstrasse 2 in the city of Aachen. At the same time, the media center was realigned and modernized. As a result, the media pedagogical advice and training offers were strengthened in terms of personnel and content, and haptic lending and device repairs were discontinued. In addition to advising and training educational teachers and specialists, the media center also supports the municipal media development plans of the ten municipalities in the urban region and advises on relevant funding programs for equipping educational institutions with media technology. For the entire region, the specialists of the media center develop educational and technical standards and concepts in cooperation with the media consultants of the competence team of the urban region in order to anchor a holistic and sustainable media equipment in the educational institutions and to enable a competent handling of this technology and media in general.

Services

The Euregional Media Center complies with the legal obligation according to § 79 SchulG NRW for the eleven school authorities in the city region of Aachen and provides the schools with "the [...] learning materials required for proper teaching" and supports them in procuring "state-of-the-art technology" and information technology oriented equipment ”. In addition to the classic media supply, the media center is the central institution for advice and training as well as a wide range of media services for around 750 educational institutions in the region. At the interface between media education and media equipment, it promotes media education in school and extracurricular facilities. The Euregional Media Center is the municipal institution for

  • the media advice, in cooperation with the media advisors of the competence teams of the city region Aachen
  • advanced training for teachers and specialists in media-pedagogical and technical issues
  • media work with preschool children (daycare)
  • the provision of over 6500 didactic media via the online media service EDMOND NRW and devices
  • the media technology equipment in schools in the area of ​​presentation technology. The services are aimed in particular at schools and day-care centers. The media center teaches media competence in the sense of the media competence framework NRW (formerly Medienpass NRW ) from pre-school age. Multipliers (pedagogical teachers and specialists) should find out how they can promote an active and critical use of the media in children and young people as part of advisory and qualification offers. The individual media concepts of the educational institutions are the basis for the advisory and training processes. The digital classroom of the media center - a technically well-equipped demonstration and training room - as well as a media lab enable initial and further contact with modern media equipment for educational institutions.

cables

  • 1924–1929: Founder and director, Peter Kremer, City School Councilor
  • 1929–1959: Arnold Herpertz, teacher
  • 1959–1967: Josef Hugot, mayor inspector
  • 1967–1983: Christoph Wolf, City Administrator
  • 1983–2015: Otto Trebels, administrator and judicial secretary
  • from Jan. 2016: Lara Langfort-Riepe, MA media and communication scientist, focus on media for children, media education

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Aachen, District of Aachen, German-speaking Community of Belgium: Agreement under public law between the City of Aachen, the District of Aachen and the German-speaking Community of Belgium. September 10, 1999, accessed June 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Euregional Media Center Aachen: Website of the Euregional Media Center. City of Aachen, June 18, 2020, accessed on June 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ unknown: Three decades of the cityscape, from the town hall tower to the Great House of Aachen . Ed .: Aachener Volkszeitung. April 14, 1954.
  4. ↑ Unknown: Pictures serve education, 30 years Aachener Stadtbildstelle - in 1953 8182 films were loaned to schools and associations . Aachen newspaper.
  5. ↑ See also Malte Ewert (ed.): New Documents on the History of the School Film Movement in Germany II. The circulars of the Reich Office for Educational Film (RfdU9) and later the Reich Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education (RWU) , Hamburg 2003
  6. ↑ The colorful life is preserved, music on the shelves - Stadtbildstelle provides images, sound and film for school lessons, a “House of Youth” could be the focus of cultural education . In: Aachener Nachrichten of November 11, 1955.
  7. ↑ No. 2022 “Die goldene Gans”, bustling activity in the Stadtbildstelle - 4500 slides and 800 film copies on loan . In: Aachener Volkszeitung from October 22, 1952
  8. ↑ Administrative report of the city of Aachen from 1963, source: Stadtarchiv Aachen
  9. ↑ Audio and video lessons for today's students, the school lesson comes to life: the world comes into the classroom - slide series, audio tapes, color and narrow audio films for 41 subject areas are at hand in the Sandkauelstrasse school . In: Aachener Volkszeitung from June 1, 1963
  10. ↑ More films for education, picture elements increase the stocks for youth and adults . In: Aachener Zeitung of May 7, 1965
  11. ↑ Euregional Media Center: Sensible Use of Modern Media , in Aachener Zeitung on February 11, 2018, accessed on June 18, 2020
  12. ↑ Laws and ordinances | State law NRW. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  13. ^ Media center of the city of Aachen. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .