Freedom is…
…not so easy to describe, as the approximately 50 participating student representatives from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Hector Peterson , Friedrich Ebert, and Ellen Key schools discovered during a seminar week at the wannseeFORUM. In addition to exploring student rights and the opportunities available to the student council, the artistic and media-based exploration of the theme of "freedom" was also on the agenda in small groups.
We all want to be free, but where and when do we actually feel free? What prevents us from feeling free? Where does our freedom end, so that the freedom of others is not unduly restricted? How do freedom and school fit together, and does anything need to change for that to happen?
In the film "Freedom is..." by the video group, the difficult attempt was made to definitively answer the question of what freedom is. Despite intensive scholarly efforts, the question could not be conclusively resolved. However, a very beautiful poem emerged from the research.
The audio group also failed to reach a definitive conclusion in their radio program "wannseeWELLE". Despite a large-scale street survey, they ultimately collected not one, but many definitions of freedom, concluding that there is probably no single answer that fits everyone.
For the rap group, however, the answer was obvious:
- "We live for freedom and fight for equality,
- Freedom means that everyone shares
- no one is left behind and no one screams,
- "Because only in this way can we form a unit."
…they rapped on Friday when the results from the workshops were presented to guests and fellow students.
The theatre group staged the play "On Invisible Threads", which depicted the various limitations of one's own freedom using a marionette.
In three photo shows entitled “Pure Freedom” , “The Cliché” and “Trapped in the Room”, the digital photography workshop presented its visions on the topic of freedom.
Before returning to everyday life, the four school groups gathered for two GSV meetings and were able to practice submitting proposals, leading a meeting, or stepping into the role of parents or teachers and representing their interests.
In the end, it became clear that the elected student representatives must also use their freedom to form a student council to bring about change in their schools in the direction of freedom for themselves and their fellow students.