Sabriye Tenberken

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Sabriye Tenberken

Sabriye Tenberken (born September 19, 1970 in Cologne ) is a German Tibetologist and founder of the Braille Without Borders organization .

Life

Sabriye Tenberken grew up in Bonn . Tenberken began to go blind from the age of nine due to a retinal disease. She has been completely blind since she was twelve . Until she went blind, she attended a Waldorf school , then the German Institute for the Blind in Marburg . She then studied Tibetology , sociology and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Tenberken developed a special Braille script for the written Tibetan language . This has since become the official braille for Tibetan .

In 1997 she traveled alone to Tibet , where she met the Dutchman Paul Kronenberg . Together they founded the organization "Braille Without Borders" in 1998 and the first school for the blind in Tibet, which began in Lhasa with teaching five blind Tibetan children to read and write Tibetan braille. In 2000 she made a documentary about her life and work, With Different Eyes . Because of this film she received the charity Bambi .

The Climbing Blind Project took place in 2004 : Sabriye Tenberken took part in a mountaineering expedition in Tibet led by Erik Weihenmayer (the first blind Mt. Everest climber) together with Paul Kronenberg and teenagers from the school for the blind in Lhasa, as well as an American film team. However, due to bad weather conditions, the expedition had to be canceled before reaching the summit. The film Blindsight won various audience awards: Berlinale, Palm Springs, AFI Los Angeles and in October 2007 also in Ghent . The film was shown in German cinemas from January 2008.

In 2005 Tenberken was nominated as one of 1000 women in the 1000 Women Project for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2009, in Kerala , India , Tenberken and Kronenberg founded the "International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs" called kanthari , in which blind people from all over the world learn to set up organizations and carry out projects in their respective home countries to tackle discrimination.

In 2017, Tenberken's visa to Tibet was not extended for no reason, so she could not continue working in Lhasa. The school for the blind has been threatened with closure since then.

Awards

  • March 8, 2000 elected Woman of the Year by the members of the International Women's Club ( Elisabeth Norgall Prize )
  • August 2000 together with Paul Kronenberg the "Zilveren Jandaia", a Dutch award for the work to improve the lives of people in the third world
  • December 8, 2000 Charity Bambi for the German Media Prize
  • January 29, 2001 named “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum
  • September 1, 2002 together with Paul Kronenberg Albert Schweitzer Prize of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel , presented by the 80-year-old daughter of Albert Schweitzer
  • September 2002 together with Paul Kronenberg "Nürnberger Teddy für Menschenliebe"
  • October 7, 2003 the knighthood of the Order of Orange-Nassau
  • March 2, 2005 Leila Hadley Luce Award for Courage from the Wings Trust "Women of Discovery" Awards
  • June 2005 - Together with 999 other women, Sabriye Tenberken is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
  • October 4, 2005 Award of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by Federal President Dr. Horst Köhler ( Germany )
  • September 2006 “Chomolongma Friendship Award” from the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region
  • October 2006 National Friendship Award from the Government of the People's Republic of China in Beijing
  • October 2006 Mother Teresa Award for Sabriye Tenberken and Braille Without Borders
  • April 2009 Marburg beacon for social civil rights , awarded by Egon Vaupel, Lord Mayor of Marburg and the Humanist Union of Marburg
  • March 2012 Presentation of the pedagogical honorary award "Der Bornheimer" awarded by the European School Bornheim to Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg.

Publications

  • My way leads to Tibet. The blind children of Lhasa . Droemer Knaur, October 2004, ISBN 3-426-77600-6 .
  • with Olaf Schubert: Tashi's new world. A blind boy shows us Tibet . Dressler, November 2000, ISBN 3-7915-1998-0 (awarded the “Weitsichtpreis for socially committed photographers and journalists” 2003).
  • The seventh year. From Tibet to India. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, August 22, 2006, ISBN 3-462-03691-2 .
  • My seventh year: The blind children of Tibet . March 2008. Knauer Verlag. ISBN 3-426-78025-9 .
  • The dream workshop of Kerala: Changing the world - that can be learned . Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, September 2015, ISBN 3-462-04717-5 .

literature

  • S. Tenberken . In: Karin Kampwerth, Susanne Kraft: Strong Girls - Strong Women. 24 life stories of extraordinary girls and women who go their own way. Ravensburger Buchverlag, February 2004, ISBN 3-473-35767-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Waltraud Tschirner: Blind people with a calling. Sabriye Tenberken founded Tibet's first school for the blind. In: Deutschlandfunk . January 13, 2008, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Ulrike Timm: Sabriye Tenberken - Why do you see your blindness as a gift? In: Deutschlandfunk . October 26, 2015, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Joscha Weber: "Blindness is an opportunity". In: Deutsche Welle . March 5, 2010, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Mansi Choksi: sabriye tenberken: Using Adversity to Unleash Innovation. In: National Geographic . June 8, 2014, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Evelyn Stolberg: "This glamor is not my world at all". In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) . December 12, 2000, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  6. ^ Adrienne Woltersdorf: Blind entrepreneurs in India. In: Deutsche Welle . June 8, 2011, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Felix Lee: Center for the Blind in Tibet before the end. In: TAZ . August 3, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Niels Altenmüller: Bonn native is fighting for a school for the blind in Tibet - China wants to end the project. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . August 6, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Felix Lee: Out for German blind school in Tibet. In: The Rhine Palatinate . August 4, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  10. ^ Franz-Josef Hanke: "Leuchtfeuer 2009" to Sabriye Tenberken. In: Humanistic press service . April 17, 2009, accessed January 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tenberken, Sabriye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker, founder of the Braille Without Borders organization
DATE OF BIRTH 19th September 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne