'Stolpersteine' (stumble blocks): Tracks and paths: Gunter Demnig at TEDxKoeln
The awarded artist Gunter Demnig says: A person is only then forgotten, when his name is forgotten. With his remarkable project 'Stolpersteine' (stumble blocks), he reminds of the victims of the NS-time by inserting them into the sidewalk. By now there are stumbling blocks in more than 500 places in Germany and several other countries in Europe.
The stones in front of the houses help to bring the memories of the people back to live that once lived in the house. The stones say: HERE LIVED...A stone. A name. A person.
But Gunter Demnig is interested in much more than the past: At TEDxKoeln he spoke of young people, who have recently shown growing interest in his project. Not learning history from books, but from the histories of people and families of the time of national socialism -- that's how future can be created. Gunter Demnig understands his work and his talk as a trial to find an answer to the question:
How could that happen in the country of the poets and thinkers?
Despite the name 'stumble blocks' Demnig doesn't mean to make people stumble. Asked about the name of the project, he likes to cite a student who said: No, no, you won't stumble and fall - you stumble with your head and your heart.
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Series beginning on bus and tram stops in Warsaw. I got the idea from what I did on Moscow on the metro stations there. To start with Berezynska.
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region and gives a pretty good idea where future films are going to come from! Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:20 1 History
00:01:29 1.1 1847–1890
00:03:52 1.2 1890–1918
00:06:01 1.3 1918–1932
00:06:55 1.4 Shaft 12
00:08:28 1.5 1932–1968
00:10:55 1.6 1968–1993
00:12:40 1.7 Becoming a monument
00:14:31 1.8 Ruhr Museum
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The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since December 14, 2001, and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took place from 1851 until December 23, 1986. For decades, starting in the late 1950s, the two parts of the site, Zollverein Coal Mine and Zollverein Coking Plant (erected 1957−1961, closed on June 30, 1993), ranked among the largest of their kinds in Europe. Shaft 12, built in the New Objectivity style, was opened in 1932 and is considered an architectural and technical masterpiece, earning it a reputation as the most beautiful coal mine in the world.