Educational Center is looking for superheroes for today
Following the very successful youth art competitions of the past years, this year the Anne Frank Educational Center, Frankfurt/Main announces a nationwide comic competition on the theme "Save the world - superheroes for today".
Applicants of all ages can submit a strip or comic story, which should comprise one page, by 3 May 2017. A jury of experts, including well-known comic artists as well as the F.A.Z.-editor and genre experteditor and genre expert Andreas Platthaus, will review and select the winners in three age categories: up to 14 years old, 15 to 19 years old, over 20 years old.
"We are looking forward to young artists' engagement with socio-political issues, their ideas of a 'good world' and their visions of what is worth fighting for today," says Dr. Meron Mendel, Director of the Education Department of the FZS. Meron Mendel, Director of the Anne Frank Educational Institution.
This year, there are attractive prizes to be won again - including a MacBook Pro, a trip to Amsterdam with a visit to the Anne Frank House or a visit to the Comic Salon Erlangen. One or more of the winning comics will become part of the new learning lab "Anne Frank. Tomorrow more." on anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination in the past and present, which will open at the educational institution in 2018. The festive award ceremony will take place on 12 June 2017 - Anne Frank's birthday - in Frankfurt's Paulskirche church as part of the city's first "Anne Frank Day". The best comics will be exhibited for a few weeks in the foyer of the Paulskirche.
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Call for entries
The world is full of evil, injustice and villains*. And in the comic book universe, only Batman, Superman and co. are in charge. It's time for that to change. It's time for your superheroes! We want to know how contemporary superheroes live, love, look, fight and resist. How they fight - and for what. We want to experience the dangers, outrages and opponents they have to deal with today. We want to get to know their superpowers and convictions, their friends, perhaps also their weaknesses. We wonder if superheroes go to the movies and if they can cook. But who says that only humans can be superheroes? We are curious about your creations.
Jury Anke Kuhl (comic artist, Frankfurt), Marijpol (comic artist, Hamburg), Philipp Mohr (William Blair & Company), Andreas Platthaus (comic expert and editor in the feuilleton of the F.A.Z., Frankfurt), Manuel Tiranno (comic artist, Frankfurt), Barbara Yelin (comic artist, Munich)
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What can we still learn from the past today? How do we act in the here and now when we encounter racism? How do we shape the society in which we want to live in the future - and in which everyone has a place? These are questions on which the Anne Frank Education Centre in Frankfurt am Main works.
As a centre for political education and advice in Hesse, the Anne Frank Education Centre develops innovative concepts and methods to strengthen young people and adults for active participation in an open and democratic society.
Participative and interactive: In workshops with different focal points, adolescents, pupils and young adults are encouraged to adopt their own points of view, to use room for manoeuvre and to critically question social developments. In advanced training courses and seminars, professionals learn how to deal with racist, anti-Semitic or discriminatory actions and statements. They receive advice in (acute) cases of conflict and on how to deal with radicalisation and radicalised young people.
Two counselling centres are based at the Anne Frank Educational Centre: response. advises those affected by right-wing and racist violence throughout Hesse, and the Adibe Network Hesse accompanies and supports people who have experienced discrimination. The exchange of theory and practice is promoted in the educational institution - for example in the context of the conference series "Blickwinkel. Forum for Education and Science Critical of Anti-Semitism".
In addition to the permanent exhibition on Anne Frank, the educational institution shows changing special exhibitions on historical and current topics. The Mobile Learning Lab "Mensch, Du hast Recht(e)!" has been touring Hesse since 2014 to raise awareness among young people against racism and discrimination in their immediate environment.
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