Post Photo: Bérengere Le Boulair and Christiane Reiling
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Window
Let's start with something pleasant. After almost 20 years, the window replacement at the Grünewaldschule is finally continuing; 1 million euros are now due for this. The Neckartalschule next door is scheduled to be demolished this summer and its new building will then merge with the Grünewaldschule to form a campus. That sounds pretty good. Let us now hope that both schools will at least meet the current demands on educational institutions - the teachers and students deserve it.
In the meantime, they want to use the containers at the Dammschulen as alternative accommodation for the Neckartal students. We can only hope that the local council will then have the courage and money to dispose of the containers and, in their place, expand the dam schools into a modern school center, including the necessary sports and swimming pools. Simply sprucing up old walls is no longer enough! At least then there will be less draft, although we should have recognized long ago that drafts are the least of the problems with today's educational efforts.
Concert evening
As soon as I got back on the steamer, I was able to accept an invitation from her last night Amicale des Français de Heilbronn followed and was immediately rewarded with a German-French concert evening about friendship. Interestingly, this took place in the auditorium Fritz Ulrich School instead of what is now leading me to the election campaign again, namely that people in Heilbronn could think about how we can bring education and culture into better harmony and not just constantly think about who can earn something from what and who can't!
Yesterday's concert evening had the motto “together & apart” and was performed by the two excellent artists Bérengere Le Boulair and Christiane Reiling disputed. The former is a gifted violinist and the other is a cellist. It is very exciting how the two musicians have musically processed and processed their own experiences of German-French coexistence and in the process merged their own biographies, and not just musically.
Her improvisations of the music of German and French composers are a poem! Singing and dancing performances as well as the reciting of texts, all in a well-chosen setting, made the evening a holistic friendship experience. The evening's good conversations during breaks rounded it off.
My praise goes to the two musicians, my thanks to the Amicale des Français, who made this wonderful evening possible for me. Which once again shows how strongly rooted civic engagement is and remains in Heilbronn, despite the unspeakable attempts to repeatedly nip these more than laudable efforts by us citizens in the bud!
Lace
Probably due to the current election campaign, 300 years of Kant almost passed me by. Which now raises the question of the true focal points, which brings us back to Kant. I encountered Kant not only during my studies, but also during my military training and again when I took a closer look at federalism. His best-known work in the last two contexts “To eternal peaceI put it into a more readable form many years ago. In any case, you should have read his first criticism of pure reason at least once, which leads me back to my own studies.
The current issue of The Federalist Debate (still shrink-wrapped) has been sitting next to my computer for a few days now. This one has actually always been quoted Immanuel Kant with the words: “The establishment of a perfect civil coexistence depends on the problem of governing the external relations among states through law.” And a real daily newspaper has been trying to create more understanding for Kant since yesterday and commemorated his 300th birthday with three articles: Against the self-diminishing of the spirit (Jürgen Kaube, FAZ, April 20.4.2024, XNUMX), The Infinite (FAZ, April 20.4.2024, XNUMX) and The Infinite II (FAZ, April 21.4.2024, XNUMX), although I only got around to reading these articles today.
“It takes courage to use this mind. Whoever puts it up will be richly rewarded.”
FAZ, 21.4.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, like my maternal grandmother, but a few years earlier, on April 22, 1724. We are still familiar with his motto Sapere aude today (hic!) and we can only recommend it to everyone, especially to our own students , which could make things a lot easier. Which now reminds me again to prepare my upcoming lecture, but at least to think about whether the whole thing really makes sense - if not for the coffee and good conversations Detlef Stern and his friendly advice that you can only do something if you have already taught it successfully. Which brings us back to Kant:
“There can be no experience of empty space, nor any conclusion about its object. To be informed of the existence of matter, I need the influence of matter on my senses.”
Immanuel Kant, Gesammelte Schriften
