Cultural ring of youth

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The Kulturring der Jugend (abbreviation: KdJ ; short form: Kulturring ) is a cultural program founded in 1945 as part of the state youth welfare service of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The aim of the measure, children , adolescents and young adults about the membership in the KDJ by heavily subsidized ticket prices access to cultural events in Hamburg allow. The measure was modified several times, but has been continued to this day and is currently located at the authority for schools and vocational training and there at the youth information center (JIZ) and its shop in downtown Hamburg for the public.

Emergence

After the end of the National Socialism , the youth in Hamburg should immediately be introduced to classical culture and art again. As early as 1945 the idea of ​​creating a “cultural ring for young people” was born, the name of which immediately established itself after the introduction of the program in October 1945 by the “Office for Youth Promotion” set up by the British occupying forces and which has been retained to this day. At that time, tickets for museums , film screenings, and cultural and scientific lectures were also funded . The KdJ also organized book advance orders for children and young people.

The annual fee for membership in the KdJ was initially 5.00 Reichsmarks , then from 1950 8.00 D-Marks .

From autumn 1949 a printed program preview with the title Hamburger Jugendbrief was published every six months .

description

The aim of the Kulturring der Jugend is to enable children, adolescents and young adults who have their first place of residence in the federal state of Hamburg to access traditional cultural events in the city through heavily subsidized ticket prices; The prerequisite for this is membership in the KdJ. To this end, the Senate cooperates with almost all orchestras , operas and theaters in the city, as well as with the Literaturhaus Hamburg, and buys up ticket contingents from tax funds , which are then sold on to eligible young people at a fraction of the actual face value . Tickets that have not been sold expire at the expense of the public purse. This procedure ensures the institutions involved in the measure a certain minimum sales of tickets, which in turn is a form of supplementary subsidy, especially for small organizers.

At the same time, teachers and multipliers are provided with group contingents for school classes and groups for special events.

Information on selected current cultural events is regularly published in the KdJ's bi-monthly newsletter in PDF format.

criticism

The work of the cultural ring was and is critically monitored and discussed in different ways in the media . It is also regularly the subject of parliamentary initiatives in the Hamburg citizenship , the state parliament. For the 16th to the 21st electoral term, 52 printed matter dealing with the KdJ can be found in the parliamentary database (as of March 2017).

Content censorship

In the 1950s, the KDJ acted as de facto censorship : performances of the play , the right to self by Rolf Italiaander that in the Hamburg Chamber of games during the season was 1951-1952, was banned in May 1952. Youth performances. The background is that the play is about a family and their homosexual son at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offense.

Use of tax money

The Hamburg Court of Auditors complained in 2002 that the costs of the KdJ were "irresponsibly high": 300,000 euros in personnel costs were compared to 30,000 cards sold, while in 1978/1979 173,000 cards were still issued. The then competent authority for education and sport (BBS) agreed to "examine" the matter; The media were already speculating about the “end” for the youth cultural ring. The criticism at the time did not take into account the fact that up to the mid-1990s, not only classical cultural events were part of the cultural ring's offer, but also regular cinema tickets and tickets for pop and rock concerts .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christine Zeuner: Adult education in Hamburg 1945-1972: Institutions and profiles. Habilitation thesis at the University of Hamburg . Page 84. LIT , Hamburg 2000. ISBN 3825850803 .
  2. ↑ a b Doris Foitzik: Youth without momentum? Youth culture and youth policy in Hamburg 1945-1949. Pages 134 and 193. Results-Verlag, 2002. ISBN 9783879160655 .
  3. ^ Erich Lüth: New Hamburg. Evidence of the reconstruction of the Hanseatic city. Volume 5.Page 96. Hammerich & Lesser, Hamburg 1949.
  4. ^ Office for Youth Promotion (ed.): Hamburger Jugendbrief. Edition 1. Program of the youth cultural ring for September 1949 to June 1950. Hamburg, 1949.
  5. ^ Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Framework Concept for Children and Youth Culture in Hamburg 2012. Communication from the Senate to the citizens, printed matter 20/4450. Focus 8: “The youth cultural ring”, page 38. June 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Small written inquiry on theater visits by school classes , printed matter 18/3179 from November 18, 2005.
  7. ↑ Court of Auditors of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: 2004 results report, chapter “Effectiveness of state services”, section “Youth cultural ring”. Page 28, Hamburg, 2004.
  8. ↑ Description of the tasks of the KdJ, accessed on March 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Newsletter ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2017 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. des KdJ, January / February 2017, accessed on March 1, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburg.de
  10. ^ Written small inquiries about the Kulturring der Jugend from the members of parliament Luisa Fiedler (printed matter 17/2862 of June 10, 2003) and Holger Kahlbohm (printed matter 17/3700 ​​of November 18, 2003).
  11. ↑ Bernhard Rosenkranz, Gottfried Lorenz: Hamburg on other ways: The history of gay life in the Hanseatic city. Chapter "Rolf Italiaander: The right to yourself". Page 136–138. Lambda-Verlag, Hamburg 2006. ISBN 9783925495304 .
  12. ↑ a b Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt : Out for the youth cultural ring? dated June 7, 2003, accessed March 1, 2017.
  13. ↑ Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Strengthening the culture of children and young people through the “Kulturring der Jugend”, citizen's request from Drs. 18/1216. Information from the President of the Citizenship, printed matter 18/4696 of June 30, 2006.
  14. ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Statistiches Jahrbuch 1972. Issues and allocations for the cultural ring of the youth in the years 1968 to 1972. Pages 6, 112 and 367. Hamburg 1972.