Johannes Heimrath

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Johannes Heimrath (born June 25, 1953 in Gosheim ) is a German publicist , entrepreneur , musician and activist .

Musician, composer and instrument maker

At the age of 17, Johannes Heimrath was a federal prize winner for Jugend musiziert . He studied composition and ethnomusicology at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and was one of the rediscoverers of the Renaissance lute . Together with his colleague Michael Korth , he founded the Ensemble Bärengässlin , which from 1975 to 1985 was mainly dedicated to the reconstruction and performance of German medieval song poetry. Heimrath is a member of the "Now! Ensemble" for contemporary music, founded in 1978. In 2005 he founded the Sona gong manufacturer , in which he manufactures gongs based on the construction method established by Michail M. Paiste .

Social Movements and Community

Cohabitation

Since 1976 he has lived in an intentional community that he co-founded, initially near Wolfratshausen in Bavaria. From 1992 to 1997 the core of the community lived in Switzerland. In 1997 the community settled in the village of Klein Jasedow in Lassaner Winkel . The foundation Zukunftswerk Klein Jasedow emerged from the community .

Oya magazine

As a publicist, he publishes the magazine Oya - Think differently, live differently - which appears under a Creative Commons license . The magazine, organized as a cooperative , offers a forum for ecological and social movements that drive social change towards a life-promoting society. It contains regular rubrics on freedom of education, living communities , permaculture and health in the sense of salutogenesis .

Regional development and local politics

Regional development

Johannes Heimrath advises on regional development. He accompanied the Sorbian community Nebelschütz in 2007 and the North Saxon community Langenreichenbach in the application for the European Village Prize . Both communities were awarded a prize. He advised the initiative group for the establishment of a " Serbski Sejm ", which called for the establishment of a democratically legitimized Sorbian parliament .

Local political engagement

From 1999 to 2009 Heimrath was deputy mayor of the Pulow community . Since the community merged with the city of Lassan in 2009 , he has been a member of the Lassan city council. Johannes Heimrath does not belong to any party. In the local elections in 2009 and 2014, he ran for the "Citizens' List Lassaner Winkel".

Civil society engagement

Freedom of education

Johannes Heimrath is committed to freedom of education . He is the author of several books on the subject. From 1987 to 1989 he successfully accompanied Tilmann Holsten, who was nine at the time, in proceedings for refusal to attend school . The judgment issued on September 7, 1989 by the Wolfratshausen District Court (Az .: 2 OWi 46 Js 32069/88) is the only legally effective acquittal for refusal to attend school in Germany to date. Judge Eckermann justified his judgment with a quote from the Bavarian Constitution : "Healthy children are the most delicious good of a people" ( Art. 125, Paragraph 1, p. 1 ). In 1991 Johannes Heimrath wrote a petition for freedom and self-determination in education , which was sent to the petition committees of the state parliaments and the members of the German Bundestag . He was a co-initiator of the Temenos learning group and the resulting model project Temenos Kindergarten e. V. in Wolfratshausen (in Gelting since 2015) and contributed to the establishment of the Lassaner Winkel Small Village School, a free, democratic school.

Citizens' initiative "Landwende"

Johannes Heimrath is co-founder of the citizens' initiative Landwende , which was launched in 2001 as a result of a herbicide accident and which advocates for “grandchildren-friendly”, non-toxic, diverse and rural agriculture. As part of the citizens' initiative, he initiated the Agricultural Poisons? No thanks! , which calls for a ban on all pesticides and in particular the total herbicide glyphosate , and the Urinale 2015 campaign , which carried out the world's most comprehensive data collection on the pollution of the population with glyphosate to date.

Alliance for an agriculture suitable for grandchildren

At Heimrath's initiative, the Alliance for Agriculture Suitable for Grandchildren was founded on January 10, 2018 , an association of 22 organic companies that actively campaign against the use of pesticides.

Book publications

  • Johannes Heimrath and Michael Korth (eds.): Frölich schray as well as we do. Oswald von Wolkenstein. (Ed. With Michael Korth.) Heimeran, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7765-0204-5 .
  • Johannes Heimrath, Michael Korth and HC Artmann (eds.): Carl Michael Bellman. To please the love. Heimeran, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7765-0213-4 .
  • Johannes Heimrath and Michael Korth (eds.): I am you and you are me. The monk of Salzburg. Songs of the Middle Ages. Heimeran, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7765-0288-6 .
  • Johannes Heimrath (ed.): The unleashing of creativity. The human right to avoid school. Drachen Verlag, Wolfratshausen 1988, ISBN 3-927369-00-4 .
  • Johannes Heimrath: The Sonogram of Personality. Gongs as modulators of body energy. Hugendubel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88034-424-8 .
  • Johannes Heimrath: Tilmann doesn't go to school. A successful school refusal. Drachen Verlag, Wolfratshausen 1991, ISBN 3-927369-02-0 . (completely revised new edition Drachen Verlag, Klein Jasedow 2013, ISBN 978-3-927369-67-2 .)
  • Johannes Heimrath: The post-collapse society. How we will live much better with much less - and how we can prepare for it today. Scorpio, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-942166-78-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography. Johannes Heimrath, accessed on January 31, 2019 (biography of Johannes Heimrath on his personal website).
  2. ^ Johannes Heimrath: Report on the specialist conference on May 17, 2012. Serbski Sejm, November 30, 2012, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Lassan: Mayor and city council. In: Website of the Office on the Peenestrom . Accessed January 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Johannes Heimrath: Tilmann does not go to school. A successful school refusal . Drachen Verlag, Klein Jasedow 2013, ISBN 978-3-927369-67-2 , p. 175 .
  5. ^ Johannes Heimrath: Petition for Freedom and Self-Determination in Education , September 18, 1991 (updated and authorized 2008).
  6. ^ Report of the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 14./15. July 2012 through Temenos Kindergarten e. V.
  7. ^ Website of the BI Landwende.
  8. ↑ Post on heute.de, ZDF, March 4, 2016 ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Martin Mair : Glyphosate: Poison or Useful Agent? , Audio contribution, MDR, ARD Berlin, Tagesschau.de, March 4, 2016, 2 p.m. 10.
  10. ↑ Who is there? Citizens' initiative Landwende , accessed on January 31, 2019 (partner of the Alliance for Agriculture Suitable for Grandchildren).
  11. ↑ Organic entrepreneurs are not dreamers. Interview with Johannes Heimrath. In: taz . February 14, 2018, accessed January 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heimrath, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, musician and activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Gosheim