"Wir brauchen Ideen gegen Interessen, um Kultur gegen Konsum zu setzen. Kultur hat Ecken und Kanten,
Konsum folgt Algorithmen.
Je digitaler, desto scheiße;
es ist der Draht zur Welt,
der uns vom Leben abhält. […] – Und was wir brauchen, können wir nur selber schaffen.“
Bert Papenfuß-Gorek
"Als Erleben Wirklich Erleben Meinte Weil Blosses Erleben / Mehr Bedeutete Als Nur Erleben Als Man Sich So Zwischen / Himmel & Erde Traeumen Liess Als die Tueren Offen Standen".
– Ein Dichter wieder einmal als Seher.
Bert Papenfuss-Gorek war Mecklenburger,
Wahl-Prenzlauer-Berger, Elektronikfacharbeiter,
Beleuchter, dann frei im Underground:
In den Achtzigern wurde er zu einem Fixpunkt der Künstlerszene in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, umgeben von vielen Dichtern, vergessenenen und berühmten wie Sascha Anderson, Adolf Endler, Elke Erb, Jan Faktor.
Die Lyrik des Rebellen Papenfuß wurde1988 doch noch offiziell in der DDR gedruckt, eine Sensation, maßgeblich herbeigeführt von Gerhard Wolf.
Schon im Osten wusste Papenfuß, dass in der Erfüllung es immer schon vorbei ist.
Nach 1989 blieb er dagegen wie andere anarchische Geister.
Er dichtete unangepasst weiter.
Wer nicht im Torpedokäfer diskutiert hat, wer nicht in der Morgendämmerung aus dem Kaffee Burger auf die Torstraße
taumelte, wer nicht in der Rumbalotte Continua kostbare Lebenszeit sinnvoll verplemperte,
der hat Berliner Jahrzehnte sinnlos verpasst.
Jetzt ist Bert Papenfuß-Gorek gestorben, er wurde 67 Jahre alt.
Das Vorbei bedichtete er früh gleichermaßen lakonisch wie melancholisch:
"Dann Reden Wir Drueber Wir Werden Dieser & Jenem Nachtrauern".
Ab dem 01.07.2023 müssen wir die Mietpreise unserer Veranstaltungsräume in allen Vermietungs-Kategorien so moderat wie möglich erhöhen, um kostendeckend arbeiten zu können.
09 July | 14:30h | Demonstration at Oranienburg train station
As every year, the Forum against racism and right-wing violence Oranienburg calls for a demonstration in memory of Erich Mühsam
The demonstration begins on Sunday, July 9, 2023, at 14:30 at the Oranienburg train station and leads to the memorial site of the former concentration camp Oranienburg in the Berliner Straße. At the memorial site of the former synagogue is planned a stop with speeches.
The organizers want to draw attention to the relevance of the redesign of the memorial site again during this commemorative demonstration and urge that it be implemented as quickly as possible. Here it is to be noted that in this framework also Erich Mühsam receives an appropriate memorial place, which reminds of its life and suffering.
After a wreath-laying ceremony, there is the possibility to visit the memorial stone to Mühsam at the Oranienburg cemetery.
The exhibition, which will be on display at the House of Democracy and Human Rights from March 3 to April 26, can be borrowed for a modest rental fee beginning in May 2023.
On 31 rollups, the exhibition portrays children who were born in Auschwitz and other camps under almost unimaginable conditions and talk about their lives.
More than 1,000 participants from 90 countries are expected in Berlin, Germany, from 15 to 18 November for the 8th World Congress against the Death Penalty. As the most important abolitionist event in the world, the Congress will bring together political figures, activists, committed citizens and young people from around the world for four days of debates on the issue of the death penalty, which is still practised on all five continents.
The Congress will be launched on 15 November at the prestigious Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.
The Foundation House of Democracy and Human Rights congratulates Memorial, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work for human rights, democracy and peace. We are happy to have Memorial in our house and wish them much success for their further work!
Statement of the Memorial Society on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize
Memorial was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Today the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bjalyazki, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and Memorial. We thank the Nobel Committee for this honorable award.
The idea and mission of Memorial are human rights, history, assistance to victims of repression, struggle against state violence. Memorial is a network, it is people, a movement. We work in Russia, in Ukraine, in other countries, continuing the work that Andrei Sakharov and Arseniy Roginsky started over thirty years ago.
Like other civil society organizations in Russia, Memorial is currently facing intense state persecution. But memory and freedom cannot be banned. Therefore, we continue our work and will continue to do so under all circumstances.
Our thoughts are constantly with Ales Bjalyazki and the other political prisoners in the prisons of Russia and Belarus, as well as with our Ukrainian colleagues who are forced to work under war conditions.
The prize is awarded at a time when Russia is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine. In Russia itself, human rights and freedoms are being violated every second. It is more important now than ever to remember the thesis that Andrei Sakharov formulated decades ago. Peace, progress and human rights are goals that are inextricably linked. You cannot achieve one of them by disregarding the others. A state that does not respect human rights in its country inevitably becomes a threat to peace.
It's about human dignity - one-time payments are not enough
The Foundation House of Democracy and Human Rights supports the statement of the RAV on the rapidly rising cost of living, which threatens the existence and human dignity of many people.
