Wannsee Forum
The Wannseeforum ( spelling : wannseeFORUM ) is a house for cultural and political youth education in Berlin .
history
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In 1947, US authorities founded the “Camp of Wannsee” in the banker's villa, which was built between 1906 and 1908, as a contribution to the democratization of Germany. In 1951, the heirs of the Joerger family of bankers sold the entire ensemble of country house, coach house and park to the McCloy Fund as the permanent seat of a youth education center. In the same year, on February 14, 1951, after the denazification was announced and entered into force, the house and property were handed over to the German association “Wannseeheim für Jugendarbeit e. V “by John McCloy , High Commissioner in Germany, and Ernst Reuter , Berlin Mayor. The facade of the building and the representative chimney room were extensively renovated by April 2005.
Architectural history
The ensemble, consisting of the main building, the coach house and a spacious park, is one of the first of the large country houses in and around Berlin that are typical of the Breslauer & Salinger architectural association . They implemented elements of the architecture of Brandenburg mansions, taking into account the country house introduced by Paul Mebes in the sense of "building around 1800" in sophisticated residential architecture for rich industrialists of the imperial era.
location
The listed country house with its coach house and modern atrium is located in the south of Berlin, in the former American sector , at Hohenzollernstraße 14 on the Pohlesee , a southern branch of the Wannsee.
profile
As an institution, the Wannsee Forum is not obliged to any particular party, religion or any other interest group, so it freely represents basic democratic values. It stands for openness to the world, diversity and equal rights for everyone, regardless of gender, religion, social and cultural origin. The profile is evident in the connection between cultural and political education, which goes back to the establishment by US authorities and young Germans in the post-war period. For democracy, against nationalism and militarism, the "Wannseeheim Association for Youth Work e. V. “under the sign of re- education .
Departments
The program includes seminars and projects for young people from the age of 14 and advanced training for employees from youth work and school. The program includes courses and projects for young people and advanced training for multipliers in youth work in the areas of political education, performing and visual arts, music, new media, girls and women education, participation, gender and international exchange.
Some of the Wannsee Forum events are aimed at fixed groups, while others are openly advertised. In addition to the range of seminars for young people and multipliers, other tasks such as advice and support for models for youth education and youth participation are in the foreground of the work.
Three full-time employees work in the pedagogical team in the departments of political education, cultural education and new media.
The house has 100 beds, which are not only frequented by young people, but also by adult groups of all ages.
The Berlin youth forum and polli magazine
Since 2001, the Wannsee Forum has organized the Berlin Youth Forum in the Berlin House of Representatives as part of the Respectabel state program . The Berlin Youth Forum, in which numerous Berlin politicians take part, is the largest youth policy event in Berlin with over 1000 participating young people and the Berlin MPs. The aim is to ensure an exchange between young people, young people and Berlin politics in order to counteract the much-discussed disenchantment with politics .
Polli-magazin arose from the idea of the Berlin youth forum in 2008 . polli-magazin is the first medium in Germany for which both young journalists and members of parliament write. It is a free online magazine. In addition to numerous young authors, politicians like Clara Herrmann and Özcan Mutlu (both Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), Mieke Senftleben , Martin Lindner (both FDP ), Evrim Baba ( Die Linke ), Sascha Steuer ( CDU ) and Bilkay regularly write for the magazine Öney ( SPD ).
In 2009 polli-magazin was awarded a prize for democratic engagement and creative journalism by the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katrin Lesser's architectural office for the renovation
- ↑ My blood, your ghetto . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 27, 2006
- ↑ Berlin youth FORUM. Home page. In: Berliner jugendFORUM. WannseeFORUM Foundation, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Young people took over the House of Representatives . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 15, 2009
- ↑ polli-magazin official website
- ↑ Action-oriented offers . In: taz , December 5, 2008; Interview with editor-in-chief Jens Thomas
- ↑ buendnis-toleranz.de laureate polli-magazin
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 44 ″ N , 13 ° 9 ′ 11 ″ E