In the organizer's words:
"The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is ready..."
The long road to becoming a university city
About the play
The reading takes a look at the long road to founding a university in the Hanseatic city: From the idea of an international university in the post-war period to a campus university with a traditional canon of subjects to the reform university based on the "Bremen model" behind the city forest. What hopes were associated with the project and what resistance had to be overcome? Which concepts were pursued and rejected? Who were the key players? And how did the Bremen public react?
On October 9, 1959, the Scientific Commission of the German Council of Science and Humanities (WR) recommended the expansion of the Wilhelmshaven School of Social Sciences by adding a Faculty of Law and a Faculty of Philosophy and suggested Bremen as the location for this new university. At this time, there was still no university in this north-western region of Germany. Six months later, the WR was already advocating the establishment of full universities. On November 3, 1959, the Bremen Senate commissioned an expert opinion on the spatial, financial and personnel possibilities of founding a university. On the basis of this concept for a campus university based on the US model, the Senate made a fundamental decision on March 21, 1961 and announced: "The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is prepared to take on the new task of founding a university in addition to its essential task of maintaining and expanding the port and trade. However, the associated obligations exceed the financial capacity of the city-state of Bremen." Ten years later, on October 14, 1971, the new university was opened in Bremen's town hall. The founding process is characterized by the passionate educational policy debates of the 1960s and the demands of the student movement. Instead of a comprehensive university based on traditional structures and a canon of subjects, a reform university without faculties was created, initially focusing on the social sciences and humanities as well as the training of teachers and lawyers. The principles of the social democratic "Bremen Model" include the co-determination of all members (one-third parity), transparent decision-making, research geared towards the pressing issues of society and the interests of employees, the development of new, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented teaching and learning formats (project studies) and the promotion of equal educational opportunities. The founding process was accompanied by widespread media interest and defamation of conservative parties and associations. But it was not only at the end of the 1950s that the trading and port city was confronted with the challenge of taking on another new task and promoting science and education with the aim of educating young people to become critical and active citizens. In 1947, as a result of the experiences of the Nazi era, the Bremen Senate discussed the idea of founding an international university. It was to serve international understanding and cultural exchange and offer new, interdisciplinary forms of knowledge transfer and acquisition, such as the studium generale, as well as further education for non-graduates. This project was also intended to contribute to the re-education of the people of Bremen and was supported by the US military government. On December 16, 1948, the Bremen Parliament passed the law to establish an international university in Bremen. The project failed due to questions of accommodation - the barracks site in Bremen-Grohn was not available as expected - and a lack of financial resources. Some conceptual ideas, e.g. the educational mission of the new university, which was also to be reflected in the structural design as a campus university based on the US model, were taken up again in the debates of the 1960s.
Cast
Scenic reading. Cooperation of the association "Aus den Akten auf die Bühne" with the bremer shakespeare company, the University of Bremen and the University Archive Bremen.
Concept: Dr. Schöck-Quinteros. Set-up text/scene: Peter Lüchinger. With: Simon Elias, Peter Lüchinger, Petra-Janina Schultz, Markus Seuß.
Archive photos: Hinrich Meyer, photo archive SKB-Bremen
Duration: approx. 2:15 incl. intermission
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