The "Weimar triangle" of youth
A trinational project
A sign is needed: The trinational youth concert on Liberation Day 2022 in Oświęcim/Auschwitz (Poland)
The European Union peace and freedom project emerged from the rubble of World War II. May 8, 2022 marked the 77th anniversary of the commemoration of the day of liberation from the scourge of World War II. Against the background of the war in Ukraine, this day takes on a special explosiveness.
This is where the trinational project comes in. On the evening of May 8, 2022, young musicians from France, Germany and Poland sent a strong signal from young people for peace and freedom to the world with a joint concert from Oświęcim/Auschwitz (Poland).
The location was deliberately chosen. Like no other, he bears the memory of violence, destruction and inhumanity. At the same time, today he enables the „encounter with human dignity“ (Christoph Heubner) – and repeatedly admonishes it.
The trinational youth project takes up the idea of international understanding as it was born after 1989 by the three foreign ministers Hans-Dietrich Genscher (D), Roland Dumas (F) and Krzysztof Skubiszewski (PL). On May 8, 2022, it was placed in the hands of young musicians:
Twenty young people each from France, Germany and Poland spent a year in Wissembourg, Landau and Oświęcim preparing for the concert evening on May 8, 2022. In close coordination between those responsible in the music schools, Yvain D’Incà (F), Adrian Rinck (D) and Jola Brandys (PL), a program was created together with the young people, which prepared freedom songs from all three nations for the joint concert. The overall musical direction was in the hands of the French conductor Marc Bender. With the language of music, which crosses borders and connects people, the trinational string orchestra expressed its desire for a united, free, democratic and peaceful Europe.
The joint preparations and rehearsals of the orchestra in Oświęcim at the beginning of May 2022 were linked to a supporting program for the young people, which also included a visit to the Auschwitz memorial sites. The International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz (Director Leszek Szuster) and students specializing in “Human Rights Education” at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau) (Prof. Dr. Matthias Bahr) accompanied this encounter and exchange process.
A second concert on May 9, 2022 in the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice
With a view to the eastern countries of Europe, which will mark the end of World War II a day later, a second concert has been scheduled for May 9, 2022 in the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice. The European consciousness applies to all four cardinal points.
Scientific framing
The music project was framed by an accompanying scientific program that is committed to the idea of human rights education. The content of a conference will revolve around the following problem area: To develop a European identity with national roots – ways of realizing it. Multi-perspective perspectives from the cultural and social sciences.
September 2022: Continuation at Hambach Castle and in the European Parliament
In September 1952, the idea of a European Parliament began – the construction of the „House of Europe“ began. The 60 musicians from France, Germany and Poland therefore came together again from September 10th to 18th, 2022, 70 years later: to deal with the Franco-German history of violence in the border region of Palatinate and Alsace, to commemorate the democratic awakenings and solidarity between the French, Germans and Poles at the Hambach Festival, but above all at concerts at the Hambach Castle, at the locations of the music schools in Landau and Wissembourg and then above all in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. This is also a thank you in important places of democracy, a reason for joy and celebration, an opportunity for encounters and exchange.
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