Konejung Foundation: Culture

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Konejung Foundation: Culture
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Legal form: non-profit cultural foundation
Purpose: Promotion of cultural projects within the framework of European unification
Chair: Achim Konejung
Bettina Lauterborn
Consist: since May 14, 2004
Founder: Horst Konejung
Foundation capital: approx. 850,000 EUR
Seat: Vettweiß-Müddersheim
Website: www.konejung-stiftung.de

The Konejung Foundation: Culture is a non-profit cultural foundation and was founded in 2004 by the Krefeld entrepreneur Horst Konejung († 2006) with foundation capital of 850,000 EUR.

Foundation, endowment

The foundation supports cultural projects within the framework of European unification. Especially the promotion of historical research and the artistic processing of cultural contrasts and similarities over the centuries. The focus here is on Roman times, the Middle Ages and the wars of the 20th century.

The foundation supports events from theater, literature and film as well as exhibitions that are dedicated to the topics of historical research and artistic processing. A particular aim is to support and promote cultural events across borders. The foundation has been awarding the Horst Konejung Prize since 2005 .

Chairman of the advisory board is the journalist David Eisermann , other advisory boards are Hans-Gerd Dick (cultural advisor for the city of Zülpich), Helga Konejung and Thorsten Engels (deputy managing director of the Siegerland-Wittgenstein tourist association). The board members are the cabaret artist Achim Konejung and the event manager Bettina Lauterborn.

Horst Konejung Prize

The Horst Konejung Prize is endowed with 5000 euros and is awarded annually to people and institutions who have distinguished themselves in the sense of the foundation's goals for cultural and historical projects in the Rhineland and the Euregio Meuse-Rhine border region .

Award winners

Publications

The foundation has published numerous works on historical topics in the Rhineland and provides financial support for specialist conferences and university research. In addition, the foundation is involved in the planning and implementation of exhibitions, for example in 2008 in the Simonskall Experiment Kalltalgemeinschaft - the Cologne Progressives in Simonskall "1919 - 1920 .

Publications

  • 2007: You enter Germany: Hürtgenwald - the long war on the Westwall , DVD
  • 2008: Experiment Kalltalgemeinschaft - the Cologne Progressives in Simonskall 1919-1920 , ISBN 978-3-935-221-97-9
  • 2009: Left tributary of the Nogat , with Armin Erlinghagen (ed.) And Heinz Küpper (author), ISBN 978-3-941-037-18-2
  • 2010: Simplicius 45 (Ed.), Heinz Küpper (Author), ISBN 978-3-941037-45-8
  • 2010: You enter Germany 2: The archive material , DVD

Funded conferences and research work

  • 2004: Time for healing memorial sculpture by Michael Pohlmann in Kalltal
  • 2007: Westwall future project : Ways to a responsible handling of the remains of the Nazi system
  • 2007: Roman tunnel in Drove
  • 2007: Documentary film Memory of Wool Soaps
  • 2008: Exhibition Experiment Kalltalgemeinschaft - the Cologne Progressives in Simonskall 1919-1920
  • 2008: Jens Lohmeier: Peace of the Dead. The dead of the battle in the Hürtgenwald , Master's thesis, RWTH Aachen
  • 2008: Peter M. Quadflieg : "Forced Soldiers" and "Ons Jongen": Eupen-Malmedy and Luxembourg as Recruiting Area for the German Wehrmacht in World War II , Master's thesis at RWTH Aachen
  • 2008: Hiking guide to the "Historical-literary hiking trail Hürtgenwald 1938-1947" in cooperation with the municipality of Hürtgenwald
  • 2009: Conference The Experience of War in a Border Region: Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Germany 1914-1945 at RWTH Aachen
  • 2010: Peter M. Quadflieg and René Rohrkamp : The "Malmedy Massacre": perpetrators, victims, research perspectives. (Volume 6 of the Aachen Studies on Economic and Social History)
  • 2011: Florian Wöltering: Echo of War, Master's thesis RWTH Aachen
  • 2011: Event: Can Cologne be different? Talk of the town in the DOMFORUM: The state of political culture two years after the archive collapse
  • 2011: Event: In need of renovation and threatened with decay. Talk of the town in the DOMFORUM: How the city of Cologne deals with its public buildings
  • 2011: Multimedia presentation: The Rhineland as a crisis region of the 20th century
  • 2012: Conference on East Belgian contemporary history after 1945
  • 2013: Multivision: "Siegfried's Curse" - The Rhineland and the First World War.
  • 2013: Photo book: The Rhineland and the First World War: deployment area - home front - zone of occupation (Author: Achim Konejung)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konejung Foundation: Culture Foundation , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.konejung-stiftung.de/Team.htm
  3. ↑ List of Foundations NRW , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  4. ^ AZ: Horst Konejung Prize to historian Wallraff , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ ns-gedenkstaetten.de: Horst Konejung Prize for Dr. Karola Fings ( memento of December 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on December 29, 2013
  6. ↑ ksta.de: Pleased with the Horst Konejung Prize , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ ksta.de: Awarded for life's work , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ kuvi.de: Becker and Stankowski receive the Horst Konejung Prize , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  9. ↑ BRF.be: “Krautgarten” and Kartheuser receive the Konejung Prize , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  10. ↑ rundschau-online.de: Awarded the Horst Konejung Prize , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ TO: History workshop : Productive, creative and inconvenient , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  12. ↑ brf.be: Horst Konejung Prize 2014 goes to Dr. Herbert Ruland , accessed June 24, 2016