Volkshochschule Frankfurt am Main

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Logo of the German Adult Education Association and also of the VHS Frankfurt

The Volkshochschule Frankfurt am Main is owned by the city of Frankfurt and emerged on January 1st, 1999 from the Office for Adult Education / Adult Education Center founded in 1976 . As a municipal further training provider for adult education, the VHS Frankfurt promotes and accompanies lifelong learning. The beginnings of the VHS Frankfurt go back to the late 1860s. The Frankfurt VHS has been LQW certified since July 2005 .

Educational offers and locations

The Volkshochschule Frankfurt am Main employs 130 full-time employees, plus over 1000 freelance course instructors. The VHS offers around 4200 events annually. The offer encompasses the topics of society, culture, health, languages ​​and professional development. A special area makes offers for holders of honorary positions, senior citizens, foreign new citizens of Frankfurt as well as gifted children and young people.

In addition to the headquarters in Frankfurt's Ostend, there is also the West District Center in Höchst for historical reasons , and since November 2017 the VHS Center North in the North West Center . The VHS courses take place at over 100 locations in the Frankfurt city area. To this end, the VHS cooperates with a number of public, church and private educational institutions.

Film forum Höchst

The Filmforum Höchst , which has existed since 1975, is the municipal cinema of the VHS Frankfurt. It shows films that are rarely or never shown in commercially operated cinemas. In doing so, emphasis is placed on portraying the film as a work of art and showing connections within the film series. Documentaries and films in their original version with subtitles form an essential part of the program . The Filmforum Höchst has been awarded the Hessian Film Art Prize several times for its work . The Filmforum Höchst is affiliated with the Neues Theater Höchst .

history

Photography course at the VHS Frankfurt 1961
Sewing lessons at the VHS FFM 1961

At the end of the 19th century, popular education associations and committees for popular lectures were founded in Frankfurt and many surrounding places. Their aim was to raise the general level of education of large sections of the population so that they could keep up with the upheavals of the time. In 1868 the later Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt am Main Höchst was founded in Höchst am Main , in 1890 the later Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung was established in Frankfurt . Both associations are the origin of the Frankfurt am Main adult education center. As part of the Rhein-Mainischer Verband für Volksbildung ( Rhine-Main Association for Popular Education) founded in 1898, they ran an extensive educational and cultural program, maintained public libraries and organized theater events. After coming to power of the Nazis the highest club in 1933 was dissolved into line and the organization Kraft durch Freude affiliated. Three years later, the Frankfurt Educational Association suffered the same fate after the Jewish association members had been excluded as early as 1933. This particularly affected the long-time managing director Wilhelm Epstein (1860–1941).

Both educational associations were re-established in 1945 with the approval of the American occupation forces, Else Epstein (1881–1948) and Carl Tesch (1902–1970) took over management in Frankfurt. In October 1947, the association for public lectures in the Main and Rhine regions , which was dissolved in 1933, was re-established by an Allied decree as the Hessian state association for adult education , Carl Tesch took over management. The educational and cultural offerings of both associations quickly reached the level of the time before 1933. The Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung ran the adult education center in the city of Frankfurt, the Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt am Main Höchst the adult education center in the western parts of Frankfurt, especially in the former City of Höchst. In 1953 the Seminar for Politics (SfP) was created within the framework of the Frankfurt VHS, which was continued independently from 1960. With the Hessian Adult Education Act passed in 1970, adult education work could be professionalized.

The city of Frankfurt, which has been providing financial support to adult education centers for many years, communalized both adult education centers and the political seminar in 1976 and continued them as the newly established office for adult education / adult education . For economic reasons, the Frankfurt Adult Education Center was converted into an independent operation of the city in 1999 . In 2005, the VHS Frankfurt moved into its new domicile in Frankfurt's Ostend , after the reopening of the education and culture center in 2009, the Höchst branch could move into new rooms. On November 4, 2017, the opening ceremony for the new VHS Center North took place in the North West Center.

literature

  • Klaus Kippert: From popular education to adult education. 100 years of the Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt / Main-Höchst eV 1868–1968. Höchst history books 14/15. Frankfurt-Höchst 1968: Association for history a. Antiquity.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 56 ″  E