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 brundibar@brodski.eu

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 julia.vilensky@ejka.org 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

anmeldung@ejka.org 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 info@ejka.org 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

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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.