King code
King-Code is a cooperation project of two Berlin schools to visit the Baptist preacher Martin Luther King jr. in September 1964 in Berlin. Pupils from the Ernst Reuter secondary school (Wedding) and the Rosa Luxemburg grammar school (Pankow) went on a search for clues and met contemporary witnesses . The project was coordinated by the Berlin-Brandenburg Community Youth Service.
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Students from both schools worked together to search for traces of Martin Luther King during his visit to Berlin. At that time King had traveled unannounced from West to East Berlin; The trigger was that 14 hours earlier, GDR border guards shot at and seriously injured Michael Meyer, who was fleeing over the Berlin Wall . In East Berlin, King criticized "dividing walls of hostility". For this purpose, the students researched libraries, archives and interviewed contemporary witnesses of King's visit in 1964. On a website they presented a virtual tour that followed in King's footsteps during his visit to Berlin. In addition, the students worked on a traveling exhibition that went through Berlin and Brandenburg schools. In September 2014 the exhibition was on public display in the Marienkirche (Berlin-Mitte) .
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Creation of the King Code project
“50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. his words remain relevant than ever. This became clear during the radio interview of the King-Code students with Sebastian Noß from 98.2 Radio Paradiso. Before that, the students had the speech Dr. Kings from 1963 and started talking to each other in the rooms of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium. The students reported on their experiences with discrimination & racism in everyday life and at school, but also talked about their dreams and wishes in relation to Dr. King. The radio reports can be heard on the project homepage. "
The students met with Michael Meyer, a jockey who fled across the death strip from East to West Berlin in September 1964 and who received 300 shots. They interviewed contemporary witnesses from the church sector, who gave them information about the circumstances under which Martin Luther King was able to preach sermons in two churches in the eastern part of Berlin. In Werdau , Thuringia , students from the project visited a Martin Luther King Center. In private, church and radio archives, they were able to evaluate films and sound recordings that were difficult to access and, in some cases, not known beforehand.
Supporters and celebrity voices
The project sponsors include the Martin Luther King jr. Memorial Berlin , SCLC Atlanta-Berlin Committee , the EU program Erasmus + YOUTH IN ACTION , the US Embassy Berlin , German Children's Fund , State Institute for School and Media Berlin-Brandenburg .
Peter Kloeppel , editor-in-chief of RTL, helped the students with their research and with the presentation of the results. Even Wolfgang Thierse turned out to be patron of the action available.
"The" King Code "project is an example of a good initiative that helps to convey the great impact and importance of human rights to children and young people in a clear and sustainable manner."
The film was made on behalf of RTL at the Eikon (production company) in cooperation with the Evangelical Church in Germany, funded by the Federal Foundation for the coming to terms with the SED dictatorship . The film is available as a DVD in German / English as well as a version for the hearing impaired from the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship . The DVD also contains a large amount of didactic material including worksheets for students. In addition, the film was released in a 25-minute version in the media institute of the federal states FWU.
Actions of the King Code project
Belong to the project
- Anti-racism training,
- Dance workshops,
- a city tour using QR codes
- guided city tours / on foot or bike
- a music workshop,
- a traveling exhibition,
- a sponsored run,
- a music festival and
- an art project.
Awards
- 2013 RESPECT wins! Advice for Democracy Berlin
- 2014 Mete-Eksi-Prize / Turkish Parents Association Berlin and GEW-Berlin
- 2015 Honorary Prize "Political Engagement" from the Luxemburg Gymnasium and the Friends' Association
- 2015 "Acting Democratically" - national competition
- 2015 2nd "Prize for Political Education 2015" / Federal Committee for Political Education (bap)
- 2015 State winner history competition of the Federal President / Körber Foundation
- 2015 Comenius EduMedia Award / Medal - European multimedia competition
Web links
- King Code project page on the Internet
- The King Code on www.eikon-nord.de
- The King-Code on the website www.baptisten.de
- Website of the community youth organization Berlin-Brandenburg
- Website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium
- Website of the Ernst Reuter secondary school
- Website by Andreas Kuno Richter
Individual evidence
- ↑ On September 13, 1964, Martin Luther King preached in the West Berlin Waldbühne and in the East Berlin Marienkirche on Alexanderplatz .
- ↑ spiegel.de / one day: “Let my people go!” See also: Wikipedia page on Martin Luther King
- ↑ Freedom through a hail of bullets, article in the BZ on October 4, 2009
- ↑ Representation of the Martin Luther King Center in Werdau
- ↑ The concept sheet of the King Code project (pdf) ( 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.
- ↑ Federal President Joachim Gauck on King-Code ( 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.
- ↑ eikon-film.de
- ↑ bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
- ↑ King Code Blog ( Memento of the original from April 8, 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.
- ↑ King Code Flyer
