Ear kiss

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Ear kiss ... in there, out there
OhrenkussLogo2.jpg
description Culture magazine
language German
publishing company Downtown workshop
for culture and science
First edition 1998
Frequency of publication half-yearly
Sold edition 4000 copies
Editor-in-chief Katja de Bragança
Editor Bärbel Peschka
Katja de Bragança
Web link www.ohrenkuss.de
ISSN (print) 1439-5118

Ohrenkuss (subtitle: ... there in, there out ) is a culture magazine that is made by people with Down syndrome and is unique in its conception. Only texts and possibly illustrations that have been written by people with Down syndrome will be presented. The layout and photos are from professional photographers.

history

Katja de Bragança came up with the idea for a corresponding magazine at an international congress on Down syndrome in 1987 as part of a lecture about a young man with Down syndrome who retold the story of Robin Hood . At the time, it was believed that people with Down syndrome were generally unable to learn to write and read.

From 1998 to 2000, de Bragança, who holds a doctorate in biology, headed a research project financed by the Volkswagen Foundation at the Bonn Institute of Medical History . The initial questions were:

How do people with Down syndrome experience the world? How does the world see people with Down syndrome? - A comparison.

De Bragança's claim was a scientifically based project that should nevertheless be contemporary and presented in a form that was visible and understandable to the public. The idea was to create a magazine from original and unique texts by people with Down syndrome. This appeared to be a suitable medium to convey the skills and creativity of people with Down syndrome to a wider public. At the same time, a magazine would serve as a forum to develop the potential of people with Down syndrome and to strengthen their self-confidence.

The title of the magazine Ohrenkuss ... there in, there out was created in one of the first sessions. An author spontaneously kissed de Bragança on the ear, whereupon everyone laughed and someone shouted: “A kiss on the ear!” The explanation followed immediately: “You hear and see a lot - most of it goes into one ear and immediately into the other ear out again. But some things are also important and stay in your head - that's a kiss on the ear. ”Funding from the Volkswagen Foundation ran over a period of two years. It was in this context that the first four Ohrenkuss issues were created, but the authors, de Bragança and the readers wanted the magazine to be continued.

subjects

Each issue of the magazine has a specific topic, e.g. B. love, work, music, sports, reading, writing, fashion, superpowers, living and dreaming. The topics are put up for discussion and selected by the authors themselves in an editorial meeting. The Ohrenkuss team often goes on excursions to research.

In 2005, de Bragança and the authors Angela Fritzen and Veronika Hammel, accompanied by GEO journalist Susanne Krieg and photographer Michael Bause, traveled to Mongolia . An Ohrenkuss magazine "Mongolei" (No. 15/2005) and a detailed article in GEO (8/2006) were created for this trip . For the issue on the subject of “Fashion” (13/2004), the Ohrenkuss authors were dressed in fashionable clothes and photographed by the professional photographer Mathias Bothor . For the edition “Luxus” (18/2007) the team visited the historical Green Vault in Dresden , for “Wohnen” (16/2006) the Bauhaus model house Am Horn in Weimar . As part of the topic “Beyond good and evil” (14/2005), the Ohrenkuss team was in the Buchenwald memorial and wrote emphatic texts. In addition, the editors visited an exhibition on Erwin Wurm in the Kunstmuseum Bonn for the topic “You are a person” (25/2010) and the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck for the topic “Paradise” (23/2009). For the magazine “The Beginning of the World” (36/2016), the Ohrenkuss team visited the Arp Museum as well as the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.

editorial staff

The editorial office is based in Bonn; editorial meetings take place every fortnight. Around eighteen people with Down syndrome between the ages of 19 and 58 are among the permanent authors who regularly attend the sessions. In addition to their work at Ohrenkuss, the authors pursue professional activities or are still in (school) training.

The texts that arise during the editorial meetings are either written by yourself or dictated to a writing assistant. Neither spelling nor content is corrected. In addition to the Bonn editorial team, Ohrenkuss has around 40 active long-distance correspondents in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the USA who send their contributions on the respective topics to the editorial office in Bonn. The final selection of the texts is subject to a text editing, only a small selection of the written texts is printed. During the mostly half-yearly editorial work of the Bonn authors, numerous texts emerge, the content of which increasingly condenses in the course of the research. The writing style of the authors is often described as idiosyncratic, imaginative and unadulterated.

With its professional layout , the magazine stands out from publications in the area of ​​the disabled. Ohrenkuss works with changing professional photographers. The Cologne graphic artist Maya Hässig is dedicated to the aesthetic design of the booklets, which combines photographs with illustrations by the Ohrenkuss editors. In both the online and print editions, Ohrenkuss does not use any advertising.

readership

The subscribers include journalists, copywriters, artists, photographers, doctors, midwives, human geneticists, Germanists, teachers and people with Down syndrome, their relatives and friends.

The dictionary

To mark the tenth anniversary of the magazine, the Ohrenkuss dictionary was published in November 2008. It gathers texts and photographs by the editors in the style of a reference work . Jennifer Skupin (design agency KesselsKramer, Amsterdam) is responsible for the layout of the book and is self-published by the editors Bärbel Peschka and Katja de Bragança. In 2010, Ohrenkuss received the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany for the dictionary .

Readings

In addition to the editorial work on the magazine, Ohrenkuss also organizes readings in which the authors present their texts live in front of an audience. In the past, these readings often took place within the framework of festivals, for example in 2011 at the “Grenzenlos Kultur Festival” in Mainz there was an ear-kissing reading on the subject of Mongolia . In addition, Ohrenkuss performed at Lit.Cologne in 2014 . In 2008 there was also a reading in which the author Wiglaf Droste read out contributions from the dictionary of the kiss on the ear.

Cooperations

In addition to working on the magazine, the Ohrenkuss editorial team also cooperates with various institutions. The editors of the Ohrenkuss, for example, in cooperation with Aktion Mensch, regularly conduct interviews with public figures, such as Lindenstrasse actress Irene Fischer and radio talk master Jürgen Domian .

In 2014, in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education, several video clips were created in which the Ohrenkuss editors explain political topics such as Europe , voting and inclusion .

Awards

  • 2012 Matthias Claudius Prize for social action
  • 2012 Golden "Image of Woman" for Dr. Katja de Bragança
  • 2011 LVR honorary award for social commitment
  • 2011 Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany in silver for the Ohrenkuss dictionary
  • 2010 Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon for Katja de Bragança
  • 2009 Design Prize NRW: third prize for the Ohrenkuss dictionary
  • 2009 BCP Award Best of Corporate Publishing , Gold
  • Nominated in 2008: Shortlist of the most beautiful German books in 2008
  • 2008 the magazine Ohrenkuss in the "Big book of Brochures"
  • 2007 pulsus health award , campaign of the year
  • 2007 nominated for the Golden Prometheus
  • 2007 AstridAward - International Prize for Good Design New York, bronze
  • 2006 BCP Award Best of Corporate Publishing, Gold
  • 2006 “Selected Location 2006”, Land of Ideas
  • 2006 Youth Culture Prize NRW, 3rd prize
  • 2005 German PR Prize
  • 2004 Oskar Kuhn Prize from the Bleib-Gesund Foundation , 1st prize
  • 2004 Ideas Prize from the Körber Foundation
  • 2004 BEE Award , bronze
  • 2004 Innovation award from the North Rhine General Practitioners Association
  • 2000 Action program “PUSH - Dialogue between Science and Society”, Stifterverband for German science
  • 1999 “Live Democracy” award from the German Bundestag and the “Live Democracy” initiative

Web links

Commons : Ohrenkuss  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Press reports

TV reports (selection)

A full list of television coverage about the Ohrenkuss is available on the Ohrenkuss website .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ohrenkuss: in there, out there - the somewhat different magazine . ( Memento of the original from April 20, 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. accessed on April 13, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volkswagenstiftung.de
  2. ↑ From an article of the GEO from August 8, 2006. ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) 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. accessed on February 8, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ohrenkuss.de
  3. ↑ a b From an interview by Spiegel Online with Katja de Bragança on December 7, 2004 , accessed on February 8, 2016
  4. ↑ Accompanying article of October 9, 2012 to the report of the Nano broadcast format about Ohrenkuss, accessed on February 8, 2016
  5. ↑ "Happy in the Steppe" of August 8, 2006 ( Memento of the original of February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) 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. accessed on February 8, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ohrenkuss.de
  6. ↑ Antje Hildebrandt: Simply a little different. The “Ohrenkuss” is a magazine made by people with Down syndrome . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2003
  7. ↑ "Who actually writes for Ohrenkuss?" On the website of the magazine; accessed on February 8, 2016
  8. ↑ wortknoten.wordpress.com accessed on February 13, 2016
  9. ↑ koeln-kultur-kolumne.de and ksta.de accessed on February 13, 2016
  10. ↑ ksta.de accessed on February 13, 2016
  11. ↑ aktion-mensch.de accessed on February 13, 2016
  12. ↑ aktion-mensch.de accessed on February 13, 2016
  13. ↑ Being in love is a dangerous condition. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  14. ↑ bpb.de accessed on February 13, 2016