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The postcard project

The postcard project

Making the creative work of young people visible

focus
Cultural education, democracy and schools, democracy and society, the social question and political participation, digitalization and democracy
Greetings from the wannseeFORUM: For collecting, remembering, and sending. We started the postcard project in 2023. Results from various seminars have been published.
Painting with red and grey mountain peaks above a lake with reflection and green bushes in the foreground
Postcard stand with a postcard showing: silhouette of a person against a black background with colorful flowers growing out of the head
Painting of a nocturnal landscape with a river on which stones lie as stepping stones, surrounded by fir trees and in the background a dark rock face under a crescent moon

We want to give more visibility to the results that emerge from seminars. Therefore, we publish works by young people as postcards.

This gives all visitors a closer look at the creative work taking place in the cultural and political youth seminars. The selection includes motifs from various workshops using different media such as comics, painting, tape art, podcasts, and photography. Different age groups are also represented. Two motifs from the bar, designed by the youth advisory board , are also included.

  • (Postcard 1) “The Invention of the Future”, wannseeWERKSTATT, “Untitled” by Julian Jesse from the painting workshop, instructor: Felix Pestemer, with students from the Bettina-von-Arnim and Kurt-Schwitters schools, Berlin 11/2023
  • (Postcard 2) In the postcard rack in the foyer: Picture by Nisa and Rubi from the painting workshop, instructor: Helena Ommert “New Beginnings – What’s Going On, What’s Coming On” in the FSJ final seminar, a cooperation with the Berlin State Youth Council, 2024
  • (Postcard 3) Untitled painting from the painting workshop, instructor: Helenna Ommert, “Your EU – 80 Years of Peace through Understanding” with students from Vienna and Berlin” 03/2025

Postcards are available for pickup at the reception desk in the foyer of the wannseeFORUM.

More postcard examples

  • Tape art (counter in the wannseeFORUM bar) by members of the youth advisory board, 12/2023. Lecturers: Atau Hámos, Toni Prediger
    Tape art image with Brandenburg Gate and TV tower in orange and black
  • Tape art (counter in the wannseeFORUM bar) by members of the youth advisory board, 12/2023. Lecturers: Atau Hámos, Toni Prediger
    Tape art image: wannseeFORUM -Landhaus in blue, green, red
  • “MeMo: Wannseeing AI” from the Workshop Podcast, Lecturer: Jasmin Schäffler “Lifehack Digitalization – #howto Living Diversity in the Digitalized World” with trainees from the Louise-Schroeder-School (06/2023) *Image generated with AI/Midjourney
    Futuristic building with large windows surrounded by tall trees and a QR code with the text 'Podcast: audiyou.de'
  • “R as in Regular Pensioner” by Leni Lucia Fanke from the comic workshop: “Comic ABC” Lecturer: Pauline Recke FSJ seminar trip of the Berlin State Youth Council, 2025
    Black and white drawing of a bird pointing with its wing raised at a list of rules, saying 'FOLLOW THE RULES OR YOU WILL NOT GET A PENSION'
  • “Heal Your Inner Child” from the Posters & Placards workshop, instructor: Claire Chaulet in the seminar “Identity and Belonging in a Changing World” with students of the Louise-Schroeder-School (05/2023)
    Black and white illustration of a staircase with a red child figure at the top and colorful lettering 'THE FIRST STEP IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST' as well as blue lettering 'HEAL YOUR INNER CHILD'
  • "Happiness has many colors" from the Posters & Prints workshop, instructor: Claire Chaulet in the seminar "Identity and Belonging in a Changing World" with students of the Louise-Schroeder-School (05/2023)
    Three colorful, slightly crumpled sheets of paper with four-leaf clovers and the words 'luck', 'has', 'many', 'colors'
  • “Onwards to an accessible world” from the poster workshop, instructor: Matteo Cossu, “Lifehack Digitalization – #howto Living Diversity in the Digitalized World” with trainees from the Louise-Schroeder-School, 03/2023, *Image inspired by working with AI/Midjourney
    Astronaut in a spacesuit sits in a wheelchair in front of a purple background with the text 'ON TO AN ACCESSIBLE WORLD'

The postcard project was launched in 2023 with funding from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth's (BMFSFJ) "Future Package for Movement, Culture and Health." The funding program is implemented by gsub and the SPI Foundation. The "Children and Youth Participation in the Future Package" component of the program is managed by the German Children and Youth Foundation (DKJS).