Geißstrasse Sieben Foundation
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| Legal form: | Foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Discussion platform, remembrance work on Stuttgart's history, interculture, housing project |
| Chair: | Klaus-Peter Murawski (Chairman of the Board of Trustees) |
| Managing directors: | Michael Kienzle |
| Consist: | since 1994 |
| Seat: | Geißstrasse 7, D-70173 Stuttgart |
| Website: | www.geissstrasse.de |
The Geißstrasse Sieben Foundation is a non-profit foundation under civil law in Stuttgart-Mitte . It was created in 1994 as a result of an arson attack and has been culturally, socially and historically active ever since.
history
On March 16, 1994, the house at Geißstrasse 7, built around 1900, burned down in Stuttgart's old town. The fire was the biggest catastrophe in Stuttgart since the Second World War. 7 people were killed and 16 injured, many of them refugees. A racist background to the arson cannot be ruled out to this day. The Geißstrasse 7 foundation was founded one year later. The building, which belonged to the Stuttgarter Hofbräu KG brewery , was transferred to the new foundation after the attack, which has its headquarters and venue there. The foundation's housing project, which took in people in need of housing, was intended to set an example against discrimination and racism. It was formerly funded by the social welfare office of the city of Stuttgart and looked after by social workers. In 2004 the foundation received the culture award from the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft .
Events
The foundation promotes democratic life in Stuttgart and offers a forum for critical dialogues. This makes it a public place of encounter and exchange and dedicates its series of events to cultural, literary and social topics. Every year around 20 events are coordinated independently or in cooperation with other institutions: with reference to and comments on current topics, such as B. human rights , migration , urban development or even acute events, such as the 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti . Every year, she sets a key theme for which further events, including study trips, are offered. These were e.g. B .:
- 2009: luck
- 2010: goods / consumption
- 2011/012: The history of the Swabian children with an excursion to Wolfegg and Ravensburg
- 2012/013: Home sweet home? A cooperation project
- 2017: The power of words (on the subject of hate speech )
Another element of the event is the “Mein Stuttgart” series of walks. Here Stuttgart personalities from politics, theater, the art and music scene lead through the state capital of Baden-Württemberg . This series is carried out in cooperation with the Stuttgarter Zeitung. From 2014, this series will feature walks to places of the future. Other partners accompany the Geißstraße Foundation in its events or hold seminars and lectures themselves in the Foundation's rooms (e.g. the Forum of Cultures in Stuttgart).
Projects
Series Denkblatt
The “Denkblatt” series is a special reminder of Stuttgart personalities and events. The thinking sheets (18 in total) help describe the intellectual topography of Stuttgart and write against oblivion.
Sign of remembrance
In 2001, the Geißstraße 7 foundation organized a student competition together with the Stuttgart 21 information store with the aim of creating a design for a memorial at the north station in Stuttgart . In 1941–1944, over 2,000 Jewish people were deported to the Inner North Station. The evaluation of the work took place on May 4, 2002. In 2004 the association "Signs of Remembrance" was founded. The city made the site available. Half of the construction project was financed from funds injected by the city and half from donations.
The memorial was inaugurated in the summer of 2006. In 2003 the study trip “Train to Theresienstadt” took place with artists, journalists, young people and the two contemporary witnesses Inge Auerbacher and Garry Fabian. Auerbacher and Fabian survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp . In 2003, the Stuttgart community foundation awarded the Geißstrasse 7 foundation a recognition award for the project “Signs of Remembrance”.
In 2011, the memorial was opened by the Association of Characters of Remembrance. V. taken over.
Publications
Book title
- Garry (Gerhard) Fabian: Look back. How a boy from Stuttgart survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-933231-97-3 .
- Michael Kienzle (Ed.): Signs of Remembrance. Train to Theresienstadt. Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-00-013368-2 .
- Geißstrasse Foundation (ed.): Staged happiness. The renewed Stuttgart old town 1909. Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7828-1319-8 .
Thinking sheets
In the order of their publication, most recently the most recent:
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Postcards
With 30 boards in special places in Stuttgart with commenting epigrams by regional and national authors, a small poetic educational trail was created. These text panels are also published as postcards.
- City densification Stuttgart. 29 text panels as a postcard set. 2004, Stuttgart 2004.
literature
- Roland Ostertag: A sign of memory. Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7828-4047-7 .
- Foundation Geißstraße 7 (ed.): Chronicle of the first decade. March 16, 1994 - 16. March 2004.
On the fire disaster on March 16, 1994:
- Barbara Czimmer-Gauss: Seven people die in a March night. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. No. 62, 2009, p. 21.
- Claudia Pralle: Foundation Geißstrasse 7 in Stuttgart. In: DZOK communications. Issue 47, Ulm 2007, p. 24.
- Erik Raidt: A new life began for me then. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. No. 59, 2004, p. 22.
See also
About the Hans-im-Glück-Quartier in Stuttgart (foundation seat): Hans-im-Glück-Brunnen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schulz-Braunschmidt: Sea of Flames transforms stairwell into fire trap ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . No. 59, 2004, p. 22. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ↑ Poggel: A new, intellectual spirit should prevent something similar. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. No. 62, 2009, p. 21.
- ^ Forum of Cultures Stuttgart e. V. Homepage of the Forum for Cultures in Stuttgart , accessed on January 10, 2011. In 2018 the 100th walk with the actor Walter Sittler took place.
- ↑ Stuttgart North Station Memorial on the website of the City of Stuttgart. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
