Thursday, November 19

“The Child in Front of Us – Capable of Love,
Capable of Hate”
Under the patronage of: Dr. Thomas Goppel, former Minister of State
Josef Schmid, Vice Mayor of the City of Munich
Dr. Dan Shaham, General Consul of the State of Israel, Munich
For the Universal
Children’s Day on
November 20, the
European Janusz Korczak Academy again
cordially invites everyone to the
2015 International
Janusz Korczak Week
This year’s Janusz Korczak Week, themed
“The Child in Front of Us – Capable of Love,
Capable of Hate”, will focus on the issue of respect
as a prerequisite for a considerate and amicable
social conduct, i.e. a society based on mutual respect. He who does not feel respected or noticed
is most likely to be a person lost to society. A person’s unconditional desire for attention can push
them to demand their rights and turn them to
extremism as an obvious being deceived way out.
Janusz
Korczak
respected
children;
his children could always count on his respect.
Says last surviving Korczak orphan Itzhak Belfer,
“We were used to giving and receiving respect.”
Belfer’s autobiography will be presented in its
German translation during this Korczak week.
Program
Wednesday, November 18
5 pm Opening Ceremony of the
2015 Janusz Korczak Week
“Brundibár”
Children’s Opera by Hans Krása
Performed by Jewish and non-Jewish children
and youngsters, conducted by Verena Sarré
This project is organized as a joint event of the
European Janusz Korczak Academy and the nonprofit organization
Sarré Musikprojekte.
Alte Kong resshalle,
T heresienhöhe 15, Munich
Reserve your ticket now
at [email protected]
Thursday, November 19,
7 pm „T he Smallest Stage in the World“
presents: Angels in Shreds – Hasidic Tales
Thursday, November 19 –
Sunday, November 22
“Janusz Korczak’s
Pedagogy:
Education
towards
Respect
instead of Education towards Hate“
Seminar
for
teachers:
Please register at [email protected] to participate. The number of places is limited. This seminar
is aimed primarily at educators.
Friday, November 20 Lectures are open to the public.
However, for organizational purposes we
would like to ask you to register
in advance.
9:30 am
”Respectful Behavior Doesn’t Happen With a
Snap” by Prof. Dr. Arno Gruen,
On October 20, 2015, Prof. Arno Gruen passed
away at the age of 92. He had prepared a lecture
which will be read; furthermore, a movie will be
presented that was shot recently at his residence
in Zurich in which he elaborates further on his
ideas concerning the topic.
‫ז״ל‬
10:15 am
“The Slow Departure from Violence”
by Thomas Mücke, (Violence Prevention Network, Berlin)
11:15 am
“Building Leadership for a Changing World”
by Rabbi Robert Kaplan, New York
This lecture will be held in English.
1:15 pm
“Janusz Korczak’s Idea of Pedagogy:
Fundamental Questions instead of
Fundamentals”
by Prof. Sigrid Tschöpe-Scheffler, (University of
Applied Sciences, Cologne)
Saturday/Shabbat,
November 21 5:30
Book Presentation:
“A White House in a Gray City”
by Itzchak Belfer, Tel Aviv
Presentation and Discussion with Author and
Translator Mirjam Pressler, Landshut
7 pm
Opening of the exhibition
„The Search for a Better Life“
Sunday, November 22
Lectures are open to the public. However, for
organizational purposes we would like to ask
you to register in advance.
10:45am
“Quarreling and the Observation of
Conflict Situations – Korczak’s
Conflict Management”
Lecture by Leo Cappon, Amsterdam This lecture will be held in English.
or
“Janusz Korczak in a Box” – a Project
for Children aged 10 and over presented by Dr. Katrin Diehl, Munich
12.30 pm
“Women, Mothers, Educators:
The Position of the Child within Family, Society
and Tradition according to Different Cultures
and Faiths”
Panel with Open Discussion
Members of the Panel:
Diana Liberova (Pedagogic and politician,
Nurenberg), Nuekhet Kivran (Head of the Advisory Board for Foreigner, Munich), Katinka Ackermann (Partner and Executive Advisor with Equitalent International, Munich), Natalie Schmid,
(Mother, social activist and wife of the Vice Mayor of the City of Munich)
1.30pm
“Project Fair” –
Presentation of Projects for
Self-Fulfillment, Self-Deter mination,
examples of Child and Adolescent
Participation
Monday, November 23 7 pm
Screening of Andrzej Wajda’s “Korczak“
(Poland 1990)
Movie screening with an introduction by
Dr. Katrin Diehl, Munich
Wednesday, November 25
6 pm
Presentation of
the “Young, Jewish, Bavarian“ Magazine A project of the Jewish Center for
Media Literacy at the European Janusz Korczak
Academy
For a more detailed overview, visit our
website at
www.ejka.org
Please note that registration at
[email protected]
is required for participation in the events of
the 2015 Janusz Korczak Week.
All events take place in our premises at
Sonnenstrasse 8, 80331 Munich
unless noted otherwise.
Performers
Jörg Baesecke
, a lawyer by profession,
has been working as an actor since 1980 and
served as head of the society for the promotion
of puppetry of the Munich municipal museum.
Itzhak Belfer, born 1923 in Warsaw is
a painter and sculptor in Tel Aviv. As a child, he
spent eight years at Janusz Korczak’s orphanage.
Theo Cappon is an educator and for-
mer professor of the pedagogic institute in Haarlem/Amsterdam. He served as the director of the
Dutch Janusz Korczak Society until 2012.
Dr. Katrin Diehl is a free journalist
and writes in the area of literature and children
culture. She offers a variety of projects like writing workshops and works as a playwright for children’s plays. She has been working on the Janusz
Korczak Week since 2010.
Professor Arno Gruen ‫ז״ל‬
Arno Gruen was a world-famous psychologist
and psychoanalyst. Born in Berlin in 1923, he
immigrated first to Poland in 1936 and then to
Denmark before finally settling in the U.S. Later he studied psychology in New York. In 1979,
he moved to Zurich where he lived and worked
until his death this October. His last publication
“Wider den Terrorismus” („Against Terrorism“)
was published this year.
Rabbi Robert Kaplan is a
founder of a number of social initiatives in
New York, among them “The Center for
Community Leadership”, from which the
project YouthBridege-NY was started.
Thomas Mücke is
co-founder
and executive director of the violence prevention network in Berlin. Furthermore, he
works as a trainer for anti-violence and competence training and mediation.
Mirjam Pressler is one of
the
most famous children and youth authors in
Germany. She is also an accomplished translator.
Verena Sarré is the director of the
children and youth choir of the Gärtnerplatztheater state theater as well as of the
Sarré nonprofit music projects. The goal of
this project is to enable children of all social
backgrounds and ages to gain stage
experience in dancing and singing under her
professional guidance.
Sigrid Tschöpe-Scheffler is a professor of educational sciences at the University of
Applied Sciences in Cologne. Her specialty is
the research of educational models in theory
and practice. Her publication “Five columns
of education” was widely discussed by
professionals and the public.
Host Organization
Europäische Janusz Korczak
Academy
Sonnenstrasse 8, 80331
Munich, Germany
+49 (0) 89 - 37 94 66 40
[email protected]
www.ejka.org
The program director of this year’s
Janusz Korczak Week is Dr. Katrin Diehl.
Cover picture: JACEK FRANKOWSKI
Background: ArtEck 2014
Design: Valentin Lutset
In Cooperation with:
About Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak (1878
or 1879 – 1942) was
a physician, educator,
psychologist,
journalist and author of
Polish-Jewish origin
who ran two orphanages in pre-War
Warsaw, one Jewish,
one
non-Jewish.
When the Germans
established the
Warsaw
Ghetto,
Korczak’s Jewish
orphanage – as well as
Korczak himself – was
forced to resettle in the
Ghetto.
In early August 1942,
his 200 orphans were
deported to Treblinka.
Having already turned
down several previous
opportunities to flee
Poland,
Korczak
was deported with
them. He accompanied his children
to the very end.
A trailblazer for
modern
children’s
rights, Korczak established as his philosophy the „pedagogy of
respect“. We consider
it our mission to carry
on his legacy.