Waldemar Bonsels Foundation

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The Waldemar Bonsels Foundation is a public foundation with legal capacity under civil law and is based in Munich . It was built on July 31, 1977, the 25th anniversary of the death of the writer Waldemar Bonsels , by Bonsel's widow, Rose-Marie Bonsels. Waldemar Bonsels was the inventor of Maya the bee .

The foundation sees itself both as an operational foundation that pursues its goals with its own programs, and as a sponsoring foundation that enables third parties to realize interesting projects and initiatives. In its funding work, the foundation has set itself the following key topics:

  • Memory of the life and work of Waldemar Bonsel as well as the care and further development of the subject matter of Maya the bee
  • Production and mediation of children's and youth literature
  • Reading promotion
  • Promotion of science in the areas of book and media studies
  • Promotion of young talent
  • Funding of the St. Gallen Center for Books (ZeBu)

Board of Directors and Board of Trustees

The chairman is Ralf Kirberg (formerly GF LHI Leasing GmbH , former board member of sculpture network ), the deputy chairman is the lawyer Rainer Karmann. Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Peter Kober, managing partner of LHI Leasing GmbH. Members of the foundation board are Cornelia Kilgus, director of the Eltern-Kind-Programm eV and project manager of the Foundation for Pöcking and Frank Kirchner, IT consultant, lecturer, teaching therapist and coach at campus naturalis GmbH.

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