The "International Project Workshop" celebrated its fifth anniversary: This collaborative project between the wannseeFORUM, the Goethe-Institut Berlin, and the Nelson Mandela School marked its fifth year. Thirty-two young participants in a German course at the Goethe-Institut in the wannseeFORUM met with 27 students from Berlin's Nelson Mandela School during their second week of classes to work together on artistic projects. This year, as in previous years, the participants explored creative and practical ways to communicate effectively in German.
"Energy" was the theme of this year's gathering, which took place from January 18th to 24th, 2015, at the wannseeFORUM. In six artistic workshops – music (led by Zarko Jovasevic), theater (Bernhard Gaudian), dance (Sven Seeger), black and white photography (Silke Krüger), visual arts (Hilkka Alaviuhkola), and stop-motion film (Katja Pratschke) – participants explored many questions, both large and small, surrounding the overarching theme: How are energy and movement connected? What do energetic processes mean – in everyday life, in society, in art? How do we obtain the energy we need? And what do energy and fanaticism actually have to do with each other?
As diverse as the questions were, the range of individual answers, approaches, and results presented by the various workshops in the final presentations at the end of the seminar was equally impressive. Leading representatives from the three cooperating institutions were also present and felt reaffirmed in their commitment to continuing this special project in the future – entirely in keeping with the trilateral cooperation agreement that had been officially signed the previous year. The sixth anniversary of the "International Project Workshop" is already eagerly anticipated.
The final film of the stop-motion group:
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