Hildegard Lagrenne

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Hildegard Lagrenne (spelling also: Lagrene) (* 1921 ; † March 29, 2007 in Mannheim ) was a Porajmos survivor, an employee of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the Documentation and Culture Center of the Central Council in Heidelberg and the recipient of the Baden Medal of Merit -Wuerttemberg since 1997.

Life

Hildegard Lagrenne grew up in the Rhineland and in May 1940 was deported with her family and other Sinti and Roma families to concentration camps in Nazi- occupied Poland . After the liberation, she moved to Mannheim with surviving family members, including her two brothers. The book published by Michail Krausnick "We wanted to be free!" a. Descriptions and reports from Hildegard Lagrenne.

Due to publications and numerous conversations with journalists and her information work in schools, at youth groups and public events, she became a nationally known personality of the civil rights movement of the German Sinti and Roma, which she shaped. She stood up for education and the fight against antigypsyism throughout her life .

Hildegard Lagrenne worked since 1981 as an employee at the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and since 1991 at the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg .

Honors

In 1997 she received the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg (since 2009 Order of Merit). The Hildegard Lagrenne Foundation (HLS) named after her was founded on October 25, 2012 in Berlin by a network of various Sinti and Roma education initiatives. The Hildegard Lagrenne Prize in Mannheim, endowed with 5,000 euros, for committed personalities who are exemplary for tolerance , human rights and educational justice in Mannheim and the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, is named after her.

Hildegard Lagrenne Foundation

The foundation, founded in 2012, has the primary goal of working against antigypsyism in the education sector. Children, young people as well as adult Sinti and other Roma should be financially supported in their educational careers. The foundation develops and promotes related projects, but also supports disadvantaged families on site in other ways. According to the criterion of origin, it makes a distinction between "promoting ... inclusion and integration, especially of the Sinti and Roma in Germany" and Roma living in Germany (foundation: "staying in Germany") Roma from other "European countries of origin". The managing director is the musician Romeo Franz , the founding board members were the cultural scientist Elizabeta Jonuz , the chairman of the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Sinti and Roma Daniel Strauss and the educational scientist Jane Schuch . All four belong to the minority. Since the end of 2017, Daniel Strauss, CEO, and the photographer and artist Behar Heinemann, who also belongs to the minority, and mediator Jane Simon have formed the board.

literature

  • Michail Krausnick: We wanted to be free! A Sinti family tells. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1983, ISBN 978-3407806420

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sintiundroma.de
  2. ↑ Michail Krausnick (ed.): We wanted to be free! A Sinti family tells . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1983, ISBN 3-407-80642-6 .
  3. ↑ Hildegard Lagrenne , website of the Hildegard Lagrenne Foundation
  4. ↑ Order of Merit of the State: State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg .
  5. ↑ a b Website of the Hildegard Lagrenne Foundation for Education, Inclusion and Participation of Sinti and Roma in Germany
  6. ↑ Hildegard Lagrenne Prize awarded - Mannheim.de .
  7. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: "Gestatten, das-sind-we": Roma culture for a week , in: Der Tagesspiegel, April 8, 2014. Retrieved on November 7, 2016
  8. ^ Romani Rose and his commitment to the human rights of the Sinti and Roma. In: rdl.de. Retrieved March 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ I'm Roma and still made it. In: The BILD report part 2. Accessed on February 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Board of Directors and Board of Trustees. In: www.lagrenne-stiftung.de. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lagrenne, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lagrene, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holocaust survivor, employee at the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and in the Documentation and Culture Center of the Central Council in Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2007
Place of death Mannheim