Deadline: 28-Mar-22
The Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation) has announced the applications for Artistic Examination of the Crimes of Nazi “Euthanasia”.
The National Socialist “euthanasia” murder of people with physical and mental disabilities and illnesses has received little to no visible commemoration in many places today. A public reckoning with this form of National Socialist injustice has only just begun in recent years. With local projects of national significance at various historical sites, they want to promote artistic interventions in public spaces that commemorate the victims of National Socialist “euthanasia” and at the same time convey historical facts. A special focus lies on contemporary forms of artistic expression, such as street art, which particularly addresses young people both as actors and as participants in the projects.
Objectives
- Making visible the direct and indirect historical locations of the NS “euthanasia” crime and its victims in public space;
- Dealing with the dimensions of the long suppressed and forgotten state-organized mass crime of the Nazi “Euthanasia” and the lasting effects of the underlying ways of thinking after 1945;
- Strengthening the commitment against ableism and for the rights of people with disabilities today.
Funding Information
The application amount must be at least 250,000 euros.
Who is sponsored?
- Grant recipients can private non-profit and public organizations and be institutions.
- With this tender, they would like to Cooperations of artistic actors with Institutions of historical-political education Promote Nazi “euthanasia” but also with self-organizations of people with disabilities and relevant medical and nursing facilities. Experience in the management of third-party funds large projects are welcome.
Eligibility Criteria
The projects
- develop methods and formats of a artistic-creative engagement with the history of Nazi “euthanasia”;
- connect artistic representations with contemporary forms of information about the historical events, those affected and their Families, those responsible and the processing since 1945;
- relate to several central and immediate historical sites of the crimes of Nazi “euthanasia” and are with their conception and implementation suited to a nationwide to make an impact;
- activate this with publicity measures, such as campaigns Commitment to overcoming discriminatory attitudes towards people with disabilities;
- the descendants of the persecuted or involve their organizations as far as possible;
- especially reach young people without or with different family biographies references to Nazi history, relate these to the project work and build on their realities and experiences (e.g. from the occupational fields of medicine and care);
- create diversity-sensitive and inclusive study rooms;
- have a coherent communication strategy;
- have a nationwide reach;
- are sustainable beyond the funding period and effective.
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Projects in Germany with project partners outside of Germany can be funded.
For more information, visit https://www.stiftung-evz.de/en/what-we-support/third-party-funded-programs/education-agenda-ns-injustice/calls-for-projects-for-the-education-agenda-ns-injustice