LesArt - Berlin center for children's and youth literature
LesArt , the Berlin center for children's and youth literature, is a public institution for the promotion of culture in the State of Berlin .
The literary house for children and young people is located at Weinmeisterstraße 5 in Berlin-Mitte and is one of the five publicly funded literary houses in Berlin.
background
The sponsoring association of LesArt is the association founded on May 23, 1990 for the promotion of children's and youth literature (eV). The aim of the association is "... to promote reading as a prerequisite for the cultural development of every person" (statute). Members of the association are writers and literary intermediaries (authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, scientists and students).
concept
LesArt has been developing creative models for literary and aesthetic education since April 2, 1993 (Hans Christian Andersen Day), incorporating all the arts and media. These are based on childhood or adolescent life, reading and picture experiences.
In addition to teaching classical material, the events are based on the books nominated or awarded as part of the German Youth Literature Prize. LesArt uses this as a reliable choice.
LesArt acts as a coordinator and cooperation partner for children's and youth literary activities in Berlin, Germany and beyond. With this in mind, the Literaturhaus initiates and multiplies event models for children, young people and adults in Berlin outside the house, nationwide and in other countries.
Exhibitions (selection)
Exhibitions with illustrations by children's and young people's book illustrators can be seen regularly in the gallery rooms:
- 1995: My rocking horse has wings - Austrian illustrations and children's books, together with the International Institute for Youth Literature and Reading Research in Vienna
- 1998: s'il vous plait ... dessine-moi la nuit! Please draw me the night! - Eight pictures and four hundred books interpret the world in French, together with the bureau du livre de jeunesse , the Institut français and the Embassy of the Republic of France
- 1999: From A as in Avonturen to Z as in tenderness - picture books, children's and youth books from Flanders and the Netherlands, with exlibris flandria, the Nederlands Literair Prodktie en Vertaalingenfonds, the Children's Book Museum The Hague and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- 2000: Out into the world - pictures and books by Eric Carle , together with Gerstenberg Verlag
- 2001: Six come through the world - roots, wanderings, contradictions in original illustrations by Eric Carle , Leo Lionni , Peter Sís , Grégoire Solotareff , Tomi Ungerer and Ed Young , together with the picture book museum in Troisdorf
- 2002: Elizabeth Shaw [1920-1992] - City-Country Views (2002)
- 2003: One two three beasts, sad tiger, lizards shortly after six and other bizarre creatures - illustrations, posters, figures, picture puzzles by Nadia Budde
- 2005: ABC does not W - illustrations and works around the alphabet to texts by Bertolt Brecht and Edward Lear , originals by Franz Zauleck and students of the HTW
- 2005: Twelve by post - paper cutouts for fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen , together with the Nordic embassies, Berlin youth libraries and schools from twelve districts on the occasion of International Children's Book Day on April 2nd
- 2006: Free kick for Franz - original illustrations and texts from A to Z, presented and passed on by Karsten Teich , accepted and placed by LesArt
- 2007: The monkey is in the giraffe, but not the worm in the tower - originals and illustrations by Isabel Pin along with poems on all kinds of animals
- 2008: Chen Jianghong - illustration and painting , together with the picture book museum Troisdorf , the museum Haus Löwenberg in Gengenbach , the museum im Schloss Pyrmont and the Moritz Verlag
- 2009: Poetry for children - illustrations for world literature by Aljoscha Blau , Klaus Ensikat , Tobias Krejtschi , Isabel Pin and Sabine Wilharm , together with Kindermann Verlag (2009)
- 2011: Snippets of sketch books - original worlds of images by Julia Friese
- 2012: The vastness behind the words - book illustrations in the original by Aljoscha Blau
- 2012/13: ... that's how they still live today. Ten fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm in illustrations from 200 years - 100 book illustrations for the 200th birthday of Grimm's fairy tale
- 2014: I am small, but important - The Children's Republic of Janusz Korczak , depicted in historical photos and current illustrations by Iwona Chmielewska and Gabriela Cichowska , together with the International Youth Library in Munich
- 2015: Above table and benches - the unique world of images of Ilon Wikland , in collaboration with Ilons Wunderland in Haapsalu and the Estonian Embassy Berlin
- 2016: No wild animal - creatures and stories of Mr. Meschenmoser
- 2017: It's always tea-time - An exhibition with originals by 72 artists from 16 countries on Alice in Wonderland
- 2019: The Neverending Story - Originals by Sebastian Meschenmoser on the classic by Michael Ende
Interactive exhibition tours take place as part of the exhibitions shown at LesArt .
Further projects and collaborations
LesArt works regularly with Berlin cultural institutions:
- In cooperation with the children and youth program of the International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb), authors from the ilb have been guests at LesArt since 2003 during the festival .
- In the House of Literature Berlin who find exquisite Sundays instead.
- LesArt takes part in the Berlin Poetry Festival , organized by the Berlin Literature Workshop .
- In 2001, the Berlin literary houses jointly organized the festival at a different location .
- There are various collaborations with the youth theater of the German Theater - Junge DT .
- For many years, LesArt u. a. commissioned by the Goethe-Institut to give workshops for teachers, educators and library staff in various countries around the world, e.g. in Kiev , Warsaw , Granollers and Vienna .
- Since 1997 invite LesArt and the Berlin public libraries in the last summer vacation week Hort- and day care groups within the framework of Reading in the park too readings, literary games and visual art workshops in parks and playgrounds.
- For many years, LesArt has been working with the Evangelical Johannesstift Berlin and the campaign to inspire children . The Johannesstift is involved in reading in the park and LesArt employees organize ten reading nights per year on the monastery grounds.
- In 2018, under the motto "What moves the world? - 25 years of LesArt ", there were over 50 cooperation events with 25 partners from Berlin city life. The aim was to bring children's and youth literature to places that play a role in selected books or that fit thematically. Venues were u. a.
- the Berlin Medical History Museum on the cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- the BSR to the book Momo by Michael Ende
- the BVG on the non-fiction book Discover your city by A. Leitzgen and L. Rienermann
- the Degewo for the book Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten by Andreas Steinhöfel
- the DRAUSSENWERBER the book Kai out of the box by Wolf Durian
- the Jewish Museum Berlin on the book Blumka's Diary by Iwona Chmielewska
- the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin for the book Akim rennt by Claude K. Dubois
- the Museum for Communication Berlin on the book Unheimliche Veranstaltungen auf Quittenquart by Nadia Budde
- the Riedel shipping company on children's books by Joachim Ringelnatz
Publications
The recommendation list Der Rote Elefant , published by the community for the promotion of children's and youth literature, appears once a year . To this end, around fifteen specialists sift through picture, children's and youth books from the autumn production of the previous year and the spring production of the year of publication every year. Socially relevant topics, aesthetic quality and importance for the development of children and young people are decisive for each recommendation.
Various publications accompanying exhibitions have also appeared.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Literature houses in Berlin
- ↑ The Association of www.lesen-in-deutschland.de
- ^ Articles of Association of the Association
- ↑ Concept of the house
- ↑ LesArt series of events
- ^ Article in the Berliner Zeitung of March 13, 1999
- ↑ Article on www.flammerouge.com ( Memento of the original from July 22, 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. dated June 14, 2005
- ^ Berlin: LesArt shows an exhibition with illustrations by Franz Zauleck and his students from June 14, 2005
- ↑ Article on www.lesen-in-deutschland.de from June 22, 2006
- ↑ Culture tip for the bookseller days: pictures by the artist Isabel Pin can be seen from today at LesArt in Berlin from June 1, 2007
- ↑ Pictures by the artist Chen Jianghong can be seen from today at LesArt in Berlin on September 23, 2008
- ^ Original illustrations from Kindermann Verlag at LesArt Berlin from June 8, 2009
- ↑ Announcement of the exhibition at the Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education
- ↑ Exhibition report on www.kinderundjugendmedien.de
- ↑ Berlin: Ilon Wikland's first retrospective in Germany opened on February 14, 2015
- ^ Article in the Berliner Zeitung from February 16, 2015
- ↑ Exhibition report on www.kinderundjugendmedien.de
- ^ Berlin: LesArt shows originals by the artist Sebastian Meschenmoser from February 13, 2016
- ↑ Article on www.berliner-lokalnachrichten.de
- ↑ Article on www.buchpaula.de
- ^ Berlin: Opening of the LesArt exhibition "It's Always Tea Time" on March 5, 2017
- ↑ Article on www.berliner-lokalnachrichten.de
- ^ Berlin: Opening of the LesArt exhibition "The Neverending Story" on September 8, 2019
- ↑ rbb exhibition review
- ↑ http://www.literaturfestival.com/kjl/archiv/programmhefte/
- ↑ Selected example on the website of the Literaturhaus ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ selected example event on the website of the literature workshop
- ↑ selected example event on the website of the literature workshop
- ↑ Article in the Tagesspiegel from October 19, 2001
- ↑ Summer project 2016 on the DT website
- ↑ Goethe-Institut Kiev
- ↑ Goethe Institute Warsaw
- ↑ Documentation of a workshop in Granollers
- ↑ Reading Academy Vienna 2014
- ↑ Press release of the Spandau City Library from 2014
- ↑ Event report of the Evangelisches Johannesstsiftes
- ↑ Event report on www.lesen-in-deutschland.de
- ↑ Event information on http://www.berlin-programm.de
- ↑ Report of a reading night participant
- ↑ Map with all venues
- ↑ History of the recommendation list and selected reviews
- ↑ Selection list of LesArt publications
