Mannheim Evening Academy
| Mannheim Evening Academy and Adult Education Center | |
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| founding | 1899 |
| Sponsorship | GmbH |
| place | Mannheim |
| Manager | Susanne Dess |
| Employee | 80 |
| Website | www.abendakademie-mannheim.de |
The Mannheim Evening Academy was founded in 1899 and is one of the oldest adult education centers in Germany .
With over 160,000 hours of lessons held annually, it is the top-performing adult education center in Baden-Württemberg . With around 5,500 courses per year, it reaches over 53,000 participants. If you add around 15,000 visitors to events, lectures, exhibitions, concerts and consultations, the Mannheim Evening Academy has over 560,000 visits a year. In addition to around 70 full-time employees, it employs around 1,200 freelance course instructors. With the move to the new seven-story building on Kurpfalzkreisel, the evening academy has had 120 classrooms and offices and a roof terrace in the city center in U 1 on 8,500 square meters since May 2009 .
Courses
The evening academy courses cover the following areas:
- Career and profession / IT
- German as a foreign language / second language
- Foreign languages: around 40 different languages
- Society and politics
- Culture
- Dance & Lifestyle
- health
- Young family: pregnancy, baby, toddler, living together
- Early childhood education
- young vhs: children and young people
- Schools and basic education (literacy for adults, preparatory course for the non-school pupil examination for secondary school leaving certificate, secondary school leaving certificate and high school diploma)
- Learning accessible: courses for people with and without disabilities
- vhs on tour
history
In November 1899, the lecturers' meeting at Heidelberg University approved the Mannheim request and agreed to support the establishment of a popular university.
Lord Mayor Otto Beck approached the University of Heidelberg in the summer of 1899 with the request to hold general educational lectures in Mannheim for interested laypeople. On November 28, 1899, the vice-rector of the university agreed to this request and the adult education center in Mannheim began its work under the organizational umbrella of the “Association for Adult Education”. Since then, 1899 has been considered the year the Mannheim Evening Academy was founded, even if the first event was not held until January 1900.
With the takeover of power by the National Socialists and the dissolution of the adult education center, the success story of adult education in Mannheim came to a temporary end. After the end of the war, Hans Werner Langer was able to resume his interrupted work in 1946. He ran the school until his death in 1953 without any organizational and legal structure underlying his work. Finally, in the same year, Lord Mayor Hermann Heimerich suggested the creation of a registered association, which was constituted on June 8th under the name Mannheim Evening Academy. Günter Schulz became the head, and city councilor Karl Breiling acted as chairman of the board of directors.
As a model, the Mannheim Evening Academy became a non-profit GmbH in 1980 . Since then, the city of Mannheim has held 70% of the shares , the original association 30%.
Public bookcase of the Mannheim Evening Academy
The bookcase of the Mannheim Evening Academy was officially opened to the public on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Thanks to the weatherproof cupboard, books can be exchanged around the clock on the forecourt in U 1 or left to take away. Like all public bookcases, it works on the principle of give and take: interested parties take whatever they like free of charge and unbureaucratically. After reading it, you can decide whether to keep the book or bring it back. On the other hand, book donations, such as well-preserved novels, thrillers, (auto) biographies, illustrated books, children's books, non-fiction or audio books, can be left in the closet.
literature
- Willi Wendling: The Mannheim evening academy and adult education center. Your story as part of local adult education. From the beginnings in the 19th century to 1953. (Special publication of the Mannheim City Archives No. 7) Heidelberg 1983
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tour of our house. In: www.abendakademie-mannheim.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 32.6 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 16.4" E