Sandra Schürmann
Sandra Schürmann (born February 14, 1970 in Witten ) is a German social entrepreneur .
life and work
Even a former school refusal, after studying social work she worked for an educational institution in Recklinghausen and designed qualification projects for unemployed young people. Based on the experience of her own refusal to go to school and the dissatisfaction with the one-sidedness of education in the transition from school to work as a purely technical qualification, she started looking for new, holistic forms of education.
In summer 2005, during a student play, she had the idea of combining acting with career choice orientation. Since no sponsor agreed to implement this in their interests, she and friends founded the association Projektfabrik e. V. and submitted the concept to the German Youth in Work Prize . The sponsorship award was advertised once in Germany and was endowed with 300,000 euros. The concept won first the state award and then the German sponsorship award on a national level.
Together with Brigitte Rieser , social scientist and cosmologist (1943–2011), Schürmann developed the demand for a new education for Germany and Europe in which the development of the self-determined personality is at the center of the efforts. From their point of view, the consequence of this demand is to develop “art as an educational principle” and to bring it to social acceptance . This is intended to promote people's impetus and creative power in order to overcome problems such as unemployment .
In 2011, Sandra Schürmann converted the association into a non-profit GmbH . In 2012 she and Hans-Ulrich Ender (actor, director and trainer for theater pedagogy) opened “THE SCHOOL for art, communication and economic design” in Witten, creating a place of its own for training and research on personal development . DIE SCHULE has been training social artists since January 2014 .
Prizes and awards
- 2006: German Youth in Work Prize
- 2007: Finalist Social Entrepreneur
- 2008: Schwab Foundation
- since 2009: Ashoka Fellow
- 2010: Federal Cross of Merit
- 2011: Finalist Social Entrepreneur
- 2011: Schwab Foundation
- 2012: Vision Award of the Vision Summit 2012
Web links
- Clear the stage for the unemployed! , Die Zeit, No. 25, June 16, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Rilo Chmielorz: Coal comes from art , the daily newspaper, March 20, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schürmann, Sandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |