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The Room e. V. (Spoken with open o: [ ˈRɔm ]; full name Non-profit association for the communication of Rome (Roma & Sinti) and non-Rom) With the headquarters in Cologne, an intercultural association with Germany is of importance.

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The association was initially created in the winter of 1986/87 as a support initiative after larger groups of Yugoslav Roma refugees, almost 1,000 people, had come to Cologne. The city administration had the families camped on a fallow grounds in front of the city. She refused to live, accommodation and medical care for months. Some Cologne citizens, among them the pastor Renate Graffmann and the later recognized as an “alternative honorary citizen” of the city of Cologne, Kurt Holl then contacted the families and founded the “Cologne Roma Initiative”. In 1988 it became a registered association. [first]

The years of founding and founding were “from demands and fights for permanent right to stay, against racist attacks and for the integration of the refugees”. [2]

At that time, municipal politics was geared towards moving Roma refugees to leave the city as possible to leave the city as possible. In contradiction to this, massive civil rights protests occurred. Members of Rome e. V. in actions of the “limited violation of the rule” linked the right to lead rights with the Nazi persecution of European Roma by z. B. symbolically organized the former Gestapo cells in the so-called el-de-house or organized a go-in in the Cologne Opera on the occasion of the commemoration for the pogrom in November 1938. Church authorities joined these protests. In 1990, the city council decided to reverse the regulatory policy at times and initially enabled almost 200 refugees to be right.

In addition to its long -term efforts, which also includes free foreign law and social advice, the association opposes “in the media, authorities and the population”. It is committed to an integration policy that keeps and supports and initiates the corresponding social and cultural projects. [3] In this sense, based on a decision by the City Council of Cologne, he maintains the model project Amaro kher (= “Our house”), a daycare center and a school for Roma refugee children.
Since 2004, children and adolescents between two and 17 years have been looked after and taught in the daycare center and all -day school. [4] As a mediator of the Roma culture of the Cologne Roma writer Jovan Nikolić, working with his Culture . The concept includes active and intensive cooperation with the parents. Intercultural cooperation is done via contacts with Cologne primary schools and neighboring leisure groups.

Amaro Kher was a winner in the nationwide innovation competition “365 places in the Land of Ideas” for 2011. Amaro Kher offers Roma refugee children “the early access to education while maintaining one’s own culture and identity”. This means that the facility is “an outstanding example of pioneering social integration.” The competition has been carried out since 2006 under the patronage of the Federal President and in cooperation with Deutsche Bank. [5]

In addition to social and political work, Rome e. V. A archive and a library on history and culture of the European Roma, which are among the largest German collections. The documentation center of Rome e. V. was opened in 1999 by President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse. [6] It advises journalists, students, politicians and associations who are looking for serious information on the subject.

Cultural and media activities include publications on the history and culture of Roma. In 2009, in cooperation with the Cologne City Museum, the association developed the exhibition “The forgotten Europeans: Art of Roma, Roma in Art”, which based on works by non-Roma artists have developed the image of gypsies in European art history since then 15th century presented and presented contemporary art and poetry of Roma artists for the first time in Germany. [7] [8]

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From 1993 to 1996 the Rome e. V. The magazine JEKH ČHIB [also: Jek chip = “A language/tongue”] . Materials on the situation of the Roma and the FRG out, which u. should serve to clarify the majority society about anti -Ziganistic stereotypes. She had the self -image of “questioning perceptions, checking supposed knowledge” after there was “sporadically” after a social interest in criticizing this “knowledge” about the minority. [9]

Since 2006 the association has published a magazine on the Internet under the title NEVIPE (= “News”; original title: Roma messages ).

  • In 2005 the association was awarded the Bilz Foundation’s price, which was endowed with 5,000 euros. The prize money served the organization for the expansion of the school and cultural center “Amaro Kher”. The award was overshadowed to Rome e.V. from the deportation of a long -standing volunteer who had fled to Germany from Macedonia 17 years earlier. [ten]
  • In the “European Year of Equal Opportunities” in 2007, the association of the State Minister of Generations, Family and Integration was the certificate for “the outstanding Best Practice Project’ Amaro Kher-Haus’ “as part of the state competition” Border crossings. Equal opportunities in Europe-an opportunity for North Rhine-Westphalia ”. [first]
  1. ↑ a b New newsletter of Rome e.V.: Moving, award for Amaro Kher and the establishment of a club for the establishment of a Europe-wide TV education program for Roma culture. In: Evangelical Church Cologne. December 10, 2007, accessed on May 15, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Doris Schmitz: On the situation of the Roma refugees with toleration status in Cologne. In: Overview. Journal of the Information and Documentation Center for Anti Racism in North Rhine-Westphalia. 15 (2009), no. 3, pp. 10-12. ( online ; PDF; 817 kB).
  3. ↑ Rosel Kern: Rome e. V. – Association for the understanding of Rome and non -Rom. In: Overview. Journal of the Information and Documentation Center for Anti Racism in North Rhine-Westphalia. 15 (2009), no. 3, pp. 13-14. ( online ; PDF; 817 kB).
  4. ↑ Marlene Tyrakowski: Amaro Kher-Roma School, Kindergarten and Family Center in Cologne Grüngürtel. In: Overview. Journal of the Information and Documentation Center for Anti Racism in North Rhine-Westphalia. 15 (2009), no. 3, pp. 12–13. ( online ; PDF; 817 kB).
  5. ↑ Marlene Tyrakowski: Amaro Kher excellent as a special place of education . In: Nevipe. Rome e. V., . No. 57 , 10. May 2011, S. 1–2 ( Archive.org [PDF; accessed on July 17, 2022]).
  6. ↑ German Bundestag: Opening of the archive and documentation center of “Rome e.V.” Accessed on July 17, 2022 .
  7. ↑ Landscape Association of Rhineland – Quality for people. (4th contribution of the page, access May 2021) ( Memento of January 6, 2013 in the web archive Archive.today ).
  8. ↑ Rückblick. In: Koelnisches-Stadtmuseum.de. Accessed on July 17, 2022 (German).
  9. ↑ On the conception of this magazine, in: JEK ČIP, No. 1 (1993), p. 2.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Schön: A prize makes school-the left bilz price goes to school project for Rome children In: Die Tageszeitung. December 6, 2005.

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