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19 March 1999 |
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National board and presidium of the League
of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen; BdV) declare their will to initiate
a project for the documenting and processing German and European displacements
|
| 19 May 2000 |
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Unanimous
resolution of the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN foundation concept by
the presidium of the League of Expellees
|
| 12 July
2000 |
|
Submission of the
first foundation concept to the those days Polish Foreign Minster
Prof. Dr. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
(no response)
|
| 11 August
2000 |
|
Submission of the
first foundation concept to twelve ambassadors of central and eastern
European states in Berlin
(no responses except for Russia)
|
| 6 September
2000 |
|
Foundation of the
non-profit foundation
ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN with its headquarters in Wiesbaden
Chairpersons
Erika Steinbach MP
Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz
|
| 19 October
2000 |
|
Panel discussion
in the Frankfurt "Press Club"
"Poles and Germans - how open are dialogues today?" with
Erika Steinbach MP, Thomas Urban and Kazimierz Wojcicki
|
| 23 January
2001 |
|
Panel discussion
in the "Residenz" in Munich
"Is the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN preventing German-Czech
dialogue?"
with Dr. Bohumil Dolezal, Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz and Erika Steinbach
MP
Head: Dr. Johannes Grotzky
Opening words: President of the Bavarian Diet Johann Böhm
MD
|
| 10 February
2001 |
|
Benefit concert in the Neues Schloss
in Stuttgart
with the German-Swiss Casal Quartet
Opening words: Minister-President of
Baden-Württemberg
Erwin Teufel
|
Benefit concert in Stuttgart
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| Summer 2001 |
|
Letter
to all the districts in Germany
Become a sponsor of the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN foundation for
10 Pfennigs per inhabitant
|
| 17 February
2002 |
|
Benefit
concert in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
with the Augsburg "Domsingknaben" under the patronage of
Minister-President of Hessen Roland Koch
Opening words: Lady Mayoress Petra Roth and Prof. Dr. Peter Scholl-Latour
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| 19 March
2002 |
|
Panel
discussion in the "Palais am Festungsgraben" in Berlin
"ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN - overdue or superfluous?"
With Götz Aly, Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz, Prof. Dr. Guido Knopp,
Dr. Michael Naumann, Erika Steinbach MP
Head: Prof. Dr. Michael Stürmer
|
| 24 April
2002 |
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Constituent assembly of the Scientific
Advisory Panel in Berlin
|
| 4 July 2002 |
|
Resolution
of the German Federal Parliament
"For a centre against expulsions with a European alignment"
|
| 16 July
2002 |
|
Endowment of the Franz Werfel Human
Rights Award by the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN
|
| 5 August
2002 |
|
Solidarity
event in Berlin
for the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN by displaced persons from various
ethnic groups
Participants: Lisa Bersanowa (Chechnya), Ksenija Bodlovic (Serb from
Croatia), Dr. Ibrahim Hasani (Roma from Kosovo), Fadila Memisevic
(Bosnian Moslem), Sophie Phitidis (Greek Cypriot), Hans Sonnleitner
(Danube Swabian from the former Yugoslavia)
|
Press conference with expellees from various ethnic groups
|
| 23 January
2003 |
|
2nd meeting of the Scientific Advisory
Panel in Berlin
Consideration of the location for the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN;
resolution for Berlin
|
| 23 January
2003 |
|
Jury meeting for awarding the Franz-
-Werfel Human Rights Prize
Participants: Dr. Ralph Giordano, Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz, Dr. Otto
v. Habsburg, Dr. Klaus Hänsch MEP, Dr. Helga Hirsch, Prof.
Dr. György Konrad, Erika Steinbach MP
|
| 18 June
2003 |
|
Panel
discussion in the Academy of Arts in Berlin
"ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN - who is this message for?"
Participants: Dr. Peter Becher, Dr. Mihran Dabag, Günter Grass,
Dr. Helga Hirsch, Adam Krzeminski, Erika Steinbach MP
Presentation: Ernst Elitz
 |
Günter Grass at the panel
discussion in the Academy of Arts |
|
| 29 June
2003 |
|
Award
of the Franz-Werfel-Human Rights
Award in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt/ Mainto the Czech initiators
of the "Cross of Reconciliation" in Wekelsdorf / Teplice
nad Metuji (Czech Republic) and Dr. Mihran Dabag;
Opening words: Lady Mayoress Petra Roth;
Introduction: Erika Steinbach MP;
eulogies by Dr. Ralph Giordano; Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz;
speaker: Berthold Kohler, editor "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"
|
| Summer 2003 |
|
Letter
to all the districts, towns and cities in Germany
Become a sponsor of the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN foundation for
5 cents per inhabitant
|
| 13 August
2003 |
|
Publication
of the declaration "A national and a European matter"
by the members of the Scientific Advisory Panel and supporters of
the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN
|
| early September
2003 |
|
Publication of the advertisement "For
a ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN in Berlin" in a number of nation-wide
daily newspapers by members of the supporter group
|
| 15/16 September
2003 |
|
Visit
by Erika Steinbach MP to Warsaw
invited by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Among other things, meetings
with Minister Dariusz Szymczychy, Secretary of State of the Presidial
Chancellery; retired Ambassador Janusz Reiter, chairman of the Centre
for International Relationships; discussion meeting of the "Rzeczpospolita"
newspaper on the ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN
|
| 29 November
2003 |
|
Joint
meeting of the Scientific Advisory Panel and supporters in Berlin
Discussion on the further mode of procedure
|
| December
2003 |
|
Escape
and expulsion in Europe
The return of what has been suppressed Start of discussion and film
series of the Media and Communication Centre in Berlin organized by
the Federal Institution for Political Education/bpb in cooperation
with the German Historical Museum, the Körber Foundation - Forum
für Impulse - and the
ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN
Media partner: Deutschlandfunk
Location: Zeughauskino cinema
Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin
Presentation: Dr. Helga Hirsch, journalist
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12 December
2003
7:30 p.m. |
|
Integration of what has been
suppressed and tabooed.
Dealing with the subject of escape and displacement
in East and West Germany
|
16 January
2004
7:30 p.m. |
|
The return of family histories
|
30 January
2004
7:30 p.m. |
|
The return of locations
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