Trotz Allem
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Founded | 1999 (1999) |
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Type | social center, youth club |
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Coordinates | 51°26′35″N 7°19′55″E / 51.44312°N 7.33208°E / 51.44312; 7.33208Coordinates: 51°26′35″N 7°19′55″E / 51.44312°N 7.33208°E / 51.44312; 7.33208 |
Website | trotzallem.noblogs.org |
Trotz Allem (In spite of it all) is a self-managed social center and youth club in Witten, Germany.
Contents
1 History
2 Initiatives
3 External links
4 References
History
An initiative for a self-managed, noncommercial meeting point in Witten met since 1998. In March 1999 a former shop in residential building Herbeder Straße 8 was rented and in April the Trotz Allem was opened. The same shop was used by the Witten subsidiary of Deutscher Metallarbeiter-Verband (German Metalworker Union) since 1891 and by the Communist Party during the Weimar Republic.[1] The name relates to the conservative Kohl era in a delimiting manner. Similar names like Trotz Allem were used in Witten in the 1980s when an Initiative Trotzalledem from the sphere of the Witten green party published a magazine Trotz-Dem.[2] In Trotz Allem happened talks, discussions, film evenings, parties, concerts and childcare mornings. Vegetarian food was served under the name Supp-Kultur (soup culture) on Thursdays. Trotz Allem organized events with the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp Henryk Mandelbaum and Stanisław Hantz.[3] During the night from 3rd to 4 December 2005 a group of Neo-Nazis threw bottles upon the entrance area. Two visitors were hit but nobody was injured.[4] As a result the landlord did not renew the hiring contract that expired on the end of the year 2005.[5]
A new clubhouse was opened in Augustastraße 58 in August 2006.[6] The space was used as a clubhouse of a Portuguese culture club previously. A coat of arms with elements of the coat of arms and flag of Portugal is still visible at the counter. After an inspection by the fire department, the building regulations authority and the office of public order the Trotz Allem was closed in October 2006.[7] In May 2007 a demonstration and street festival in favor of the reopening occurred.[8][9]
After an alteration the Trotz Allem was reopened in July 2010.[10] On the opening an infoshop was established that was closed in 2012. A club library named Gustav Landauer Library Witten after the German anarchist Gustav Landauer was opened in December 2011.[11]
Initiatives
Several initiatives are based in the Trotz Allem, among others the Gustav Landauer Library Witten, a regugee support group named Grenzfrei Witten, a series of queer events called Transistor and an anarchist group named Anarchist Group Eastern Ruhr Area.[12]Really really free markets and workshops occur irregularly.[13]
External links
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Trotz Allem (German)
References
^ Schoppmeyer, Heinrich, Witten. Geschichte von Dorf, Stadt und Vororte (in German), Volume 1, Witten: Verein für Orts- und Heimatkunde in der Grafschaft Mark, p. 477, ISBN 978-3-00-040266-1.mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Trotz-Dem. Kritisch-solidarisches zur Grün-Offenen-Liste (GOL) Witten (in German) (6), Initiative Trotzalledem. Für ein Anderes Witten, December 1984
^ ""Wenn ich von Lager spreche, spreche ich für die, welche sind gestorben." Stanislaw Hantz, Auschwitz-Überlebender, berichtet über sein Leben mit Auschwitz" (in German). Freundschaftsverein Tczew-Witten. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
^ "Willkommen auf der Homepage des Trotz Allem" (in German). Trotz Allem. Archived from the original on 2007-05-03. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
^ Stodollick, Mirco (December 2006), Alles ohne Knete vom Staat (in German), WAZ
^ "Trotz Allem" zurück (in German), Witten aktuell, 2006-08-30
^ Weshalb jetzt Beanstandung? (in German), Witten aktuell, 2006-11-08
^ Demtröder, Walter (2007-05-14), Friedlicher Protest (in German), WAZ
^ 30 Helfer waren im Einsatz (in German), Witten aktuell, 2007-05-16
^ "Wir sind wieder da!" (in German). Trotz Allem. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ Anna Ernst (2011-12-11). ""Trotz Allem". Bibliothek als Zeichen für die Gewaltlosigkeit" (in German). WAZ. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
^ "Gruppen und Projekte" (in German). Trotz Allem. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ Irmine Skelnik (2013-03-15). "Kost-nix-Trödelmarkt. Einfach mitnehmen, was gefällt" (in German). WAZ. Retrieved 2017-04-03.