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How can the conversion of a former mourning hall into a library be realised without making fundamental structural changes to the existing building? Thanks to the team of architects led by Rainer Tönnes (planplus GmbH), the answer to this question had long been clear: a free-standing, walk-in bookshelf, which has been taking shape since the beginning of this month.
March began very politically this year and showed us that Fritz Bauer has lost none of his topicality. Whether it’s the Ver.di trade union strike together with the climate movement or the „Last Generation“ campaign, which many perceived as an attack on the German constitution, Fritz Bauer still provides answers to the pressing questions of our time:
„The term working and economic conditions not only covers what can be regulated by collective bargaining, but is a collective term for all the labour law and social policy interests of trade unions and their members.“
„You can make paragraphs, you can write articles, you can make the best constitutions. What you need are the right people who live these things.“
We are therefore all the more pleased that we have been able to introduce many people to the jurist Fritz Bauer this month, and that we have found initiatives and individuals who would like to work with us in his spirit.
In the coming years, we want to bring the topics of human rights and resistance into a university context. To this end, we have met with various employees of the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Witten/Herdecke and considered the framework in which we can implement events and seminars. We are therefore pleased to inform you that our first seminar in this context will start on 4 May 2023 at the University of Witten/Herdecke. Registrations are here still possible.
A whole range of different stories are also currently being created for the interactive Fritz Bauer Library. For example, employees of HÁWAR.help are writing the stories of the founders Düzen and Tuğba Tekkal for the digital library. We were also able to publish two stories this month. On the one hand, the one by Victor Kugler who hid the family of Anne Frank, and the life story of Augusta Farvo an Italian partisan and anarchist.
On 9 March 2023, lawyer Peter Fahlbusch presented his findings in a lecture based on the proceedings he has conducted on detention pending deportation. Unlike the federal states and the federal government, Fahlbusch keeps statistics on the constitutionality of deportation proceedings based on his clients.
The shocking result: in half of the cases he has conducted, courts have found that the persons concerned were detained unconstitutionally. In the second part of his presentation, Fahlbusch pleaded for a real change in this situation and presented some ways in which we can all help those affected – because it is often enough for those affected not to have to face a court alone. According to Fahlbusch, this change does not even require additional laws, but simply compliance with the Basic Law and human rights.
20.04.2023: RA Gabriele Heinecke in Q1 in Bochum
04.05.2023: Start of the seminar series at the University of Witten/Herdecke