Open ear festival

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The Open Ohr Festival (OOF) at the Mainz Citadel has been a thematically oriented youth culture festival that has been taking place annually over Whitsun since 1975 with discussion forums , workshops , cabaret and live concerts as well as tent camps .

Structures

The legal sponsor is the youth welfare office of the city of Mainz , financially supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture and the Friends' Association Open Ohr. The actual organizer is the free project group, which is given a great deal of freedom in terms of content, since it has been carrying the main burden of non-administrative organizational work for many years on an ultimately voluntary basis with changing people. One of the early employees and companions here was Reinhard Hippen . The resulting conflicts about special program items have repeatedly challenged, mobilized and kept the culture of conversation over the years.

Open ear support association

Friends of the festival formed the non-profit Open-Ohr Association in September 1995 after the festival was questioned by the conservative parties in the Mainz city council. The aim of the association is to preserve the Open Ohr as a political culture festival, to defend the autonomy of the project group creating the program and to secure the citadel as a festival location in the long term. The association advocates better funding for the festival and supports it with donations. In addition, the association wants to speak out in the cultural and political discussion in Mainz.

content

Set up as a non-commercial , thematic youth culture festival , the Open Ohr offers 5,000 - 9,000 mostly young visitors the opportunity to deal intensively with current social issues over four days. Over the decades, the Open Ohr Festival has acquired the reputation of a nationwide unique example of successful youth cultural work . The current Mayor of Mainz and former youth and social affairs director Michael Ebling called it "the only still existing youth policy festival in the Federal Republic".

In addition to the forums, theater and cabaret productions and live concerts, there has also been a children's program for many years. Over four days, up to 300 artists from music, theater , cabaret, cabaret and action art can be experienced, with many taking place in parallel.

subjects

The themes of the festivals are worked out every year by the independent project group. Panel discussions, readings, roundtables, workshops and art projects will take place at the festival alongside music, theater, cabaret and film. The organizers are talking about providing around 100 speakers from politics, culture, science and business every year.

  • 01. Open Ohr Festival 1975 "Hits & Antihits - Songs, Chansons and Schlager in Germany"
  • 2nd Open Ear Festival 1976 "Work, love, dream in songs, chansons and language"
  • 03. Open Ear Festival 1977 "With and without work"
  • 4th Open Ear Festival 1978 "Don't worry"
  • 5th Open Ear Festival 1979 "Power, Pressure & Co"
  • 06th Open Ear Festival 1980 “Never again! Fascism yesterday, today, tomorrow "
  • 07th Open Ear Festival 1981 “Time to get up! Security Debates & Peace Talks "
  • 08th Open Ear Festival 1982 “Nobody Can! What to do? Get off - change - board "
  • 09th Open Ear Festival 1983 “The Stranger. The stranger. The foreign"
  • 10th Open Ear Festival 1984 "Dance on the Volcano"
  • 11th Open Ear Festival 1985 "Future: Between Tomorrow and Horror"
  • 12th Open Ear Festival 1986 "Africa - Black and White?"
  • 13th Open Ohr Festival 1987 "We are who again"
  • 14th Open Ear Festival 1988 “The recalcitrant paralysis? Set up. Wait. Watch."
  • 15th Open Ear Festival 1989 “Reign times !? Or of freedom, equality, sisterhood "
  • 16th Open Ear Festival 1990 "One World - Burns"
  • 17th Open Ear Festival 1991 "To Fall And Not-Maneuverability - The New World-Sub-Order"
  • 18th Open Ear Festival 1992 "The lazy egg of Columbus - the division of the world"
  • 19th Open Ohr Festival 1993 "Youth '93 - softened and hardened"
  • 20th Open Ohr Festival 1994 "Backward into the Future"
  • 21st Open Ear Festival 1995 "Love, Lust and Passion"
  • 22nd Open Ear Festival 1996 "Endstation Sehnsucht"
  • 23rd Open Ear Festival 1997 "No beautiful country"
  • 24th Open Ear Festival 1998 "On uprisings and conditions"
  • 25th Open Ear Festival 1999 "Power against Power"
  • 26th Open Ear Festival 2000 "Time Out"
  • 27th Open Ear Festival 2001 "The Right-Making Center"
  • 28th Open Ear Festival 2002 "Freedom & Democracy"
  • 29th Open Ohr Festival 2003 "Style over substance"
  • 30th Open Ear Festival 2004 "Abolish Work"
  • 31st Open Ohr Festival 2005 "Aktenzeichen XX unsolved - of small and large differences", plain text "Women - what has (not) been achieved?"
  • 32nd Open Ear Festival 2006 "Private matter!"
  • 33rd Open Ear Festival 2007 "to be afraid ... is fearful"
  • 34th Open Ohr Festival 2008 "Of Consumption and Other Necessities"
  • 35th Open Ear Festival 2009 "Heaven, Ass & Twist", it was about the topic of belief , religion and worldview
  • 36th Open Ear Festival 2010 "Yes No Maybe - The main thing is YEAH!" With opportunities, risks and the disruption of the Millennial generation .
  • 37th Open Ear Festival 2011 “Rien ne va plus - nothing works anymore”. The topic was the global financial and economic crisis and its causes and consequences.
  • 38th Open Ohr Festival 2012 “Restart the system?”. It was about the increased global occurrence of social protest and modernization movements.
  • 39th Open Ear Festival 2013 "We don't get together that young anymore"
  • 40th Open Ear Festival 2014 "Maikäfer Flieg"
  • 41st Open Ohr Festival 2015 "No land in sight"
  • 42nd Open Ohr Festival 2016 "HEIMAT - What the heck ?!"
  • 43rd Open Ear Festival 2017 "Disposable People"
  • 44th Open Ear Festival 2018 "Body Structure"
  • 45th Open Ear Festival 2019 "GET PARTY"

literature

  • Free Project Group, Open ear club and city of Mainz (ed.): Open ear Festschrift 30 . 30 years of political festival - The themes: Music - Songs as a medium; Theater - The pig was saved, cabaret, ear tones etc. 52 pages, Mainz 2004.
  • Open-Ohr Festival Office of the City of Mainz (Ed.): Style over substance?  : 29th Open Ear Festival, Whitsun June 6th - 9th, 2003 Citadel Mainz. Press documentation. Mainz 2003

See also

Socioculture , Federal Agency for Political Education

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Dierks: Special prize of the jury for a special achievement or publication: Burkhard Ihme . In: Comic! Yearbook . tape 2009 . ICOM, Stuttgart 2008 ( excerpts online [accessed on November 26, 2013] interview).