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Intercultural prize awarded for the first time: These people bring Freising's 146 nations together

2021-10-11T17:16:06.384Z


It's brand new, the “Intercultural Prize for Diversity”. Now there was Freising the first award winners. Also for a club that can celebrate great.


It's brand new, the “Intercultural Prize for Diversity”.

Now there was Freising the first award winners.

Also for a club that can celebrate great.

Freising

- In Freising, diversity has always played a major role, emphasized Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher on Friday in the pavilion of the music school. That is why, in his opinion, the newly created “Intercultural Prize for Diversity” fits in particularly well here. Now, for the first time, this prize has been awarded as part of a small ceremony. And because the intercultural commitment in the cathedral city is so great, there were also three award winners.

Today all are guests of honor, said Meral Meindl from the Migration Council - because there is a reason to celebrate.

The Migration Council of the Agenda21 and Social Advisory Council, supported by the intercultural office of the city administration and the Freising Community Foundation, has created a prize for and by people with immigrant biographies - this year with the focus on volunteering.

Freising: Diversity for more than 1000 years

Freising citizens with different languages ​​and cultural, religious and social distinctions would meet on a voluntary basis and through this togetherness make boundaries overcome, emphasized Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher. After all, this diversity has played a very important role in Freising for over 1000 years. For him it is wonderful how great the volunteer work is in Freising. That is why all eight suggestions for the award are per se worthy of the award. “It's simply best to work together!” Emphasized Eschenbacher.

For him, as a local politician with a migration background, it is a special honor to be able to speak at the award ceremony, stressed City Councilor Samuel Fosso.

Integration is not a one-way street, but always works together - both sides have to make an effort so that everything can work out.

For him that means: getting to know the “rules of the game” in a country and then playing along - otherwise the problems would be preprogrammed.

Great praise for the Migration Council

That should also be considered philosophically: Although the world population is growing, the perceived distance from one another is getting bigger and bigger.

There are 146 nations in Freising, and for Fosso they all represent an enrichment of the city. The extremely committed Migration Council is doing a great job here, because successful integration is always a benefit for society as a whole.

This would require concepts and good strategies, but also such prices, in order to make intercultural work visible.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

The Association des Togolais à Freising (ATF eV) is an association that every city would like, as Gökalp Babayigit, who was born in Freising and deputy head of politics at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, emphasized in his laudation. The Africa Festival has long become a cherished tradition in Freising and also offers a concise key to integration. Also because the ATF is always a very good discussion partner for the city and, in addition to the Africa Festival, shows great integrative commitment in the area of ​​voluntary work, the association is an extremely worthy winner of the intercultural award. But the mothers' café and the “Women in Dialogue” did not go away empty-handed: both institutions, which are ambitiously striving for good cooperation, were each awarded second prize by the jury.The total prize money of 3,000 was split up, and the ATF also received a Freisinger Bear, which had been creatively designed by the cultural sponsorship award winner Pepito Anumu.

And then there was cabaret a la turka ...

Impro à la turka could be won for the supporting program, which took up the subject of integration with wit, language skills and a tremendous talent for improvisation and, above all, brought out the fine nuances of interpersonal problems and Freising's peculiarities.

With their play with clichés and the audience, they earned thunderous applause and gave an encore with the OB on stage.

The event was musically accompanied by the duo Johanna and Sarah Hölzl with classical music on flute and cello.

“Let's hope,” said Mesut Ünal from the Migration Council, “that all projects will continue and that numerous applications will be submitted for the next prize.” The Intercultural Prize for Diversity is an important award for people who work for peaceful coexistence every day , emphasized Meindl.

There can never be enough of them.

Richard Lorenz

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2021-10-11

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