Tamera

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Water retention landscape as a means against desertification based on a design by Sepp Holzer in Tamera, Portugal

Tamera is a working and living community founded in 1995 in the Alentejo , Portugal . The participants refer to the project as a “peace research center” and “healing biotope”. Around 170 people live there, many from German-speaking countries, but also from Portugal and other European countries, the USA and the Middle East. The focus is on developing and testing a model for peaceful coexistence between people, animals and nature, striving for regional energy and food self-sufficiency, and implementing the idea of free love . The initiator of Tameras is Dieter Duhm .

Ideas and implementation

Part of the Tamera community already lived and worked in Germany in the previous projects “Bauhütte” in Schwand / Black Forest (from 1979) and “Meiga”, which were also set up by Duhm.

The 134 hectare site near Relíquias was bought in 1995 by Sabine Lichtenfels , Duhm's partner, and a group of friends and later on in various shares to Ilos Ltd. and transferred to two clubs. Duhm and Lichtenfels are considered to be the founders of Tamera. Duhm's ideas, especially regarding his concept of free love, continue to influence the community.

Sunpulse solar Stirling engine in Tamera, Portugal

Since 2005, so-called “Grace Pilgrimages” have been taking place in Israel-Palestine, but also in Colombia and Portugal under the direction of Sabine Lichtenfels and Benjamin von Mendelssohn. In 2007, the construction of a water retention landscape began, a measure with which the incipient desertification was to be reversed. The design of the permaculture water landscape comes from the Austrian mountain farmer Sepp Holzer .

According to the organization, a "peace civilization" according to Dieter Duhm should be conveyed. A one-year basic offer has been available since 2009. The graduates see themselves as "peace workers". One focus of this peace work is the Israel-Palestine conflict . In the opinion of critics, Israel is seen unilaterally as the cause of the conflict. Visitors from Israel and Palestine come to Tamera regularly to look for possible solutions together.

The introduction to the “peace worker”, the summer courses and other events also serve to finance the village community and its infrastructure.

Stone circle in Tamera, Portugal

Tamera is made up of sub-projects, the project managers of which form a so-called planning council. There is also a three-person “government” made up of representatives of the younger generation.

The idea of ​​“free love” is decisive for the project. This is understood to mean a love between lovers without jealousy, fear of loss, claims to property, neediness and pretense. To realize the idea of ​​free love between one or more love partners, trust within the community is of elementary importance.

In Tamera, self-portrayal methods are used for this purpose (e.g. the ZEGG forum developed in the 1980s ), a form of authentic portrayal of emotional processes that has its roots in the self-portrayal method of the Action Analysis Organization (AAO) called action analysis . At the end of the seventies, Duhm had visited the AAO in Austria, which Otto Muehl had set up , and was enthusiastic about its radical commitment to art and free love .

Tamera sees itself as part of an international peace movement. By building a settlement model with social and ecological sustainability and non-violence, a "field formation" of peace should take place. Duhm's political theory is thus based on the assumption of the existence of morphic fields by the English biologist Rupert Sheldrake , an approach that critics call esoteric .

Tamera maintains the “Global Campus”, the “SolarVillage”, the “Youth School for Global Learning”, the “Institute for Global Peace Work” and is working on the creation of a “children's community”.

As the first “healing biotope”, Tamera is said to be an “acupuncture point of peace” (Dieter Duhm). The healing should primarily concern the relationship of man to nature and creation, to love and sexuality and to community.

The information about Tamera is mainly based on own representations. There is hardly any reception in the specialist literature. Few media reports refer to the community.

Own publications

  • Leila Dregger: Tamera - a model for the future . Verlag Meiga, Wiesenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-927266-26-1 . Read online
  • Dieter Duhm : future without war. Global Healing Theory . Meiga publishing house, Wiesenburg 2006, ISBN 3-927266-22-1 .
  • Dieter Duhm: The sacred matrix. From the matrix of violence to the matrix of life. Foundations of a new civilization . Synergie-Verlag-Buchhandlung, Belzig 2001, ISBN 3-932517-50-4 .
  • Dieter Duhm: The unredeemed Eros . Meiga publishing house, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-927266-06-X .
  • Dieter Duhm: Political texts for a non-violent earth . Meiga Verlag, Belzig 1992, ISBN 3-927266-08-6 .
  • Sabine Lichtenfels : Grace. Pilgrimage for a future without war . Meiga Verlag, Wiesenburg 2006, ISBN 3-927266-23-X .
  • Sabine Lichtenfels: Dream stones - a journey into the age of sensual fulfillment . Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen / Munich October 2000, ISBN 3-7205-2135-4 .
  • Sabine Lichtenfels: Soft power. Perspectives for a new consciousness of women and for a new love for men . Berghoff and friends, Belzig 1996, ISBN 3-9805234-0-3 .
  • Sabine Lichtenfels: The hunger behind the silence. Approaching sexual and spiritual realities . Verlag Meiga, Belzig 1992, ISBN 3-927266-07-8 .
  • Sabine Kleinhammes (Ed.): Save sex. A manifesto by women for a new sexual humanism . Verlag Meiga, Radolfzell 1988, ISBN 3-927266-01-9 .

Web links

Commons : Tamera  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Alleweldt: The plan of the healing biotopes. Retrieved October 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Strohschein : The aggrieved society: Suffering from devaluation and happiness through recognition. Riemann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 3-57050-178-7 , p. 232 ff .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Tamera homepage. Retrieved October 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Judith Felizita Säger: Visit to Tamera, Portugal - 20 years of free love. (PDF manuscript) Deutschlandradio Kultur: Zeitfragen, July 8, 2015, accessed on September 28, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Florian Höhne: The village of opportunities for love . TAZ online July 24, 2004
  6. ^ Grace Pilgrimages and Global Grace Day. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 10, 2015 ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tamera.org
  7. ↑ For ZEGG and Dieter Duhm see: Florian Höhne: The village of love opportunities . TAZ online July 24, 2004

Coordinates: 37 ° 42 ′ 55 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 55"  W.