Leisure time

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YMCA -Leisure Castle Solms (1953)

Camps are time-limited measures that are offered for different age and interest groups, for example in holiday resorts, conference houses or as tent camps in the great outdoors. The origins lie in the church. Today's sponsors of leisure time are also other non-profit associations and clubs, youth associations, municipal youth care agencies such as district youth welfare offices or commercial providers (especially for "language holidays").

Within some churches and free churches that work in the area of ​​the former GDR , leisure times are also referred to as set-up times .

history

Even before the First World War , events in church circles that lasted several days or weeks and served for spiritual preparation and / or recreation were referred to as leisure activities . Leisure time has its historical roots in the Protestant youth movement. The first German event for which the term leisure time was used was offered in 1913 by the Evangelical Association for German Women 's Youth for "the daughters of the educated classes". Hulda Zarnack (1883–1977), superior of the Burckhardthaus Berlin-Dahlem and vice president of the Young Women's Christian Association, was the organizer of this travel event. In the spring of 1912, foreign friends had drawn her attention to a “läger”, a youth camp in Sweden, with a “little booklet”. Hulda Zarnack took part in this camp and then made the proposal to the board of the aforementioned association that a similar event should be held in the Christian recreation center in Tambach ( Thuringia ) in January 1913 . During the preparations for this winter trip, it was also about a name for this event. Zarnack wrote about this in 1920 in a look back at the then still young history of leisure time:

“ It was a great help that just at that moment a new employee came into our group, Miss Diehl , who immediately went with us to work on the idea. The name? She found the word leisure . Hardly had it been pronounced on a trial basis than the founder of our association and then chairman, Pastor Joh. Burckhardt , realized with his own certainty: this is a name that is being used. "

- Hulda Zarnack: Die Geschichte der Freizeiten, in: Zeitschrift Jugendweg , Volume No. 1, 1920, p. 7.

Further impulses for the German leisure movement, which started here, came primarily from the English youth camp movement and the so-called retraits of the Anglican Oxford movement . The retreats practiced in the Catholic area did not remain without effect on the implementation and content of Protestant camps.

Until the 1960s, camps were primarily understood as church or religious events. Both in general and in relevant lexicons, attention was drawn to the religious content of camps. The Brockhaus Encyclopedia from 1968 names in their article Leisure only church organizations as organizers of camps and has its religious character out: ". Allen F [reizeiten] is listening to the Word of God together" Only recently, the term Leisure also Used by non-religious (for example workers' welfare ) and organizers with a different ideology (for example free religious community ).

Target groups

First men's and women's free time of the YMCA Nuremberg (Lago Maggiore, 1954)

The target group of the first free time were exclusively girls from upper social classes. The spectrum has expanded considerably over the decades. In addition to gender-specific leisure time (girls, boys, women and men), there are those that are age-based (leisure time for children, teenagers, young people, young adults, senior citizens). But also cross-generational offers can be found in the catalogs of the different providers. These include, among other things, family camps, camps for single mothers or fathers with children, father-son or mother-daughter camps, grandparents-grandchildren educational camps and, for example, camps for newlyweds, single persons and widowers.

Many camps are assigned to specific interest groups. For people with a religious orientation, Bible, pastoral care, fasting and free time from silence are offered. Those interested in sport will find, among other things, hiking, climbing and skiing leisure time. Further examples from the extensive range are motorcycle, sailing and camping camps. Adult education institutions occasionally use the term “educational leisure time” for events lasting several days that combine seminar elements of state-sponsored further education with sociable and leisure-oriented elements.

Currently, camps are being held by numerous youth associations across Germany. Empirical data are collected and published by the research project Leisure Evaluation. The leading federal associations (Bundesforum Kinder- und Jugendreisen and transfer eV) published a compendium on leisure time for the first time in 2014.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Stange: Article youth work , in: Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon. Ecclesiastical-theological concise dictionary (Eds. Heinz Brunotte, Otto Weber et al.), Göttingen 1957, Sp 469.
  2. ↑ Encyclopaedia: Zarnack, Hulda ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2012 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. ; accessed on August 14, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enzyklo.de
  3. ↑ E. Wunderlich: Leisure time. In: Hans Freiherr von Campenhausen , Erich Dinkler , Gerhard Gloege & Knud E. Løgstrup (eds.): The religion in past and present. Handbook for theology and religious studies. Volume II (D-G). Tübingen 1958, p. 1122.
  4. ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia in 20 volumes: Article Freizeit , Volume 6 (F – GEB), Wiesbaden 1968 17 , p. 580, Sp II.
  5. ^ AWO Baden: leisure time ; Accessed July 24, 2013.
  6. ^ Free religious community Mannheim: Home page ; Accessed July 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ Individual proofs are not required, since the leisure time periods mentioned here can be found numerous in the Internet catalogs of the leisure time providers.
  8. ↑ For example Kinderschutzbund Bielefeld: Educational leisure time for mothers and children  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on August 15, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dksb-bielefeld.de  
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Ilg, Judith Dubiski: When one goes on a journey. Evaluation results of youth camps and international youth encounters. 1st edition. Wochenschau, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0185-5 , p. 158 .
  10. ^ Ansgar Drücker, Manfred Fuß, Oliver Schmitz: Guide to travel education for children and young people. Potential - research results - practical experience. 1st edition. Wochenschau, Schwalbach, ISBN 978-3-89974-920-5 , p. 461 .