Bullettin 2

January-June 2013

Dear all, near the end of our sur-vey about the fifties, we have du-sted off the old memories of ours and of the ones that we inter-viewed. We met people who told us about their past, they shared with us photos, objects, and, not least, their emotions and feelings.

We can say that the project 1950’s coming back has been successful, because thanks to our work we have involved old and young people to remembran-ce and curiosity for the 50s.

Caterina De Nardi What we have learned……………...1

Our friendly words told by Ayşe .1

Hello everyone 2……………..….….2

4th meeting in Barcelona ....... ...3

Preentations…………………………..4

The feeling of a People in a play 5

4th meeting in Munich .......... ...5

Born in the 50s ....................... ...6

Evaluation results from the last

meeting in Spain………………..…..6

Passaggi associ-

azione

Agentur Kultur

GbR, Dr. Juergen Hal-

berstadt und Dr. Rudolf

Halberstadt

Sincan İMKB

Ticaret Meslek

Lises

West Midlands

Tomorrow

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...While we were singing the lines from a 1950’s song “Nel Blu

dipinto di Blu “ at our last meeting in Barcelona, our group

consisted of people from different ages and cultures felt the

joy and music letting us reconcile the past with now. I think

it was amazing. It is amazing. I think even placing the

chairs and tables in the meeting place altogether, or even

walking in the street as a group in a harmony tell s me that

we reached our aim. That a person whom I won’t meet again

let me walk under her umbrella tells more than any words...

(go to page 2)

Ayşe AYDOĞAN

The project in short...told by Ayşe

The 50s

What we have learned from the project experience

Disclaimer

This project has been funded with support

from the European Commission. This

publication [communication] reflects the

views only of the author, and the Commis-

sion cannot be held responsible for any

use which may be made of the information

contained therein.

While we were sin-

ging the lines from a

song 1950s Nel Blu

dipinto di Blu, our

group consisting of

people from different

ages and cultures felt

the joy and music let

us reconcile past and

now

We were very happy to welcome

our project partners in the centre of

Munich. The meeting place offered

the surrounding of 3 institutions of

Adult Education: Family Education

Center www.efbs-muc.de (with spe-

cial offers in the field of healthcare

and health education); Evangeli-

sche Stadtakademie / Protestant

C i t y A c a d e m y

www.evstadtakademie.de; Evange-

lisches Bildungswerk www.ebw-

muenchen.de . Additional to the

meeting program we visited Munich

C i t y M u s e u m h t t p : / /

www.muenchnerstadtmuseum.de/

en/ with a temporary exhibition Mu-

nich“ seen by students from the Ma-

ximilian University of Munich. Pho-

tography of the warming up

“Workshop”: Using modern vases in

he flower design of the 1950s.

Agentur Kultur e.V. München

Hello EVERY ONE 2

4TH MEETING IN MUNICH

While even telling just a single moment of a day is so

hard, we have a challenge to describe, to make 1950s

known in more lively way to be aware of the shared values

under the same sun. Thus, this time we invite you to look

through the period from five different points of view of

ordinary people from different parts of Europe to remind

the world a shared collective memory full of disesases,

innovations in health, songs, buildings and architecture,

drama, literature, cinema; in short ourselves.By the end of

November 2013, we were around the tables that let us see

each other’s faces to communicate in a meeting room that

was uniqe with the

street with its glass

side in Münich in

Germany to talk

about healthcare in

1950s . Klaus and

Jurgen welcomed us

with colorful roses in

1950s style vases

there. Elisa told us

about tuberculosis in

1950s in Spain. She

showed us some pho-

tos from sanatoriums. And it was the same in Türkiye,

although the government of the period got a war started

against it, people in poverty and who tried to survive in

bad conditions with inadequate food were suffering it.

But gradually, by the end of the era with the increase in

number of doctors, nurses, pharmacist along with other

technological innovations in health Turkish people could

recover it. Then we listened and learned about Elly-Heuss

-Knapp, the founder of an organization to protect mothers

who had to undergo the most difficult hardship and mo-

therhood in Germany in this post war period. Mums could

stay at a health resort founded by this organization consi-

sting of dance, gymnastic, group activities with creative

content for 4 weeks to reinforce the belief that healthy

mothers mean healthy children and healthy husbands

concrete the family unit. I think it was certainly the cor-

rect vision to reconstruct a society after a very destructive

war. I mean the power of women to emerge, to heal was

understood and it worked. Furthermore, during our visit

to Stadt Museum, the tolerance and open-mindedness

were the core of the museum. Because it doesn’t ignore or

humiliate “now”; in other words the young. Just opposite,

it reconciles past and present and in this way this under-

standing strengthens and encourages young people and

anyone; a scene from a protest, or the scene for skate-

boards with a ladder. In our project, we also combined

past and present in a friendly, humanistic way, beyond

politics with music, poems, drama, architecture, photo-

graphy, sculpture, cinema; I mean anything belonging to

human in Barcelona in April. While we were singing the

lines from a song 1950s Nel Blu dipinto di Blu, our group

consisting of people from different ages and cultures felt

the joy and music let us reconcile past and now. I think it

was amazing. It is amazing. I think even placing the

chairs and tables in the meeting place altogether, or even

walking in the street as a group in a harmony tell me that

we’ve got our aim. That a person whom I won’t meet again

let me walk under her umberalla tells more than any

words.

Ayşe AYDOĞAN

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5TH MEETING IN BARCELONA

Each partner presented the

topic „Arts“ in a unique and specific way. That was very

interesting for us, and helped

us to realize cultural differences. Our German

presentations dealt about the

cities of Munich and

Stuttgart, exploring traces of arts and architec-

ture focused on the architec-

ture of today as seen by the

participants. Examples: a

café and a cinema in the

centre of Munich established

in the 50s and changed nev-

er since, protected as a kind

of cultural heritage; the TV

tower in Stuttgart built in

1956 - the first TV tower of

the world. It is closed for

renovation of the fire pro-

tecting system, and some

people of Stuttgart started a

campaign: „OFFEN

BLEIBEN“ / keep it open.

Jurghen and Klaus

At work!

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Jurghen was inteviwed by a

TV spanish team in Barcelona

WEST MIDLANDS TOMORROW

By Mr Jürgen Halberstadt and Mr Klaus Müller

Architecture & Art ‐ Exploring Munich

and Stuttgart’. Showed some represen-

tative samples of architecture of the 50’s

that still remain nowadays. Also talked

about the influence of Italian artist in

Germany like the sculptor Marino Marini

with his work ‘Horse and rider’.

B y M r s C h r i s t i n e L e s t e r Architecture, Photography and Music

of the 50s in Uk with some links to you-

tube. Mrs Lester explained that 50’s

was the most creative decade of the

last century, and also how freedom and

money contributed to younger genera-

tions to find new ways of expression

mainly in music and in arts voice. Si-

multaneously, classical music develo-

ped and important success due to cha-

racters like the leader conductor and

composer Sir Malcolm Sergent. She

also talked about the important Ameri-

can influence over the arts in UK du-

ring 50s. Participants from Uk delighted

the rest of members with their voices

with their impromptu rendering of Rock

Around The Clock

P A S S A G G I

AGENTUR KULTUR GBR

By Mrs. Caterina De Nardi

Many samples about functionalist architec-

ture based on the ‘Piano INA casa’; litera-

ture ( with authors like Alda Merini, Alberto

Moravia and Cesare Pavese) and theatre.

It highlighted the importance of social is-

sues and realism in the Cinema of the 50’s

with works like those of Federico Fellini

(La Dolce Vita) and Giuseppe di Santis

( Riso Amaro); Music was mainly repre-

sented by the San Remo Music Festival

created in that decade; Also a mention

about the television advertising show

broadcasted by RAI, ‘Carosello’ wich

showed short sketch comedy films using

live action, animation, and puppetry.

By Mrs Ayşe AYDOĞAN

Drama, Poetry and Music of the 50s in

Tukey with links to youtube. There were

many samples of authors, works and mu-

sic like Cemal Süreyya, Ülkü Tamer, and

Salim Şengil. Also brought magazines

and material original from the 50s where

poetry and other events were published.

Styles, manners, fashions

THE SINCLAIR IMKB TRADING VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

By Elisa Bombí

The general situation of the Arts during

the Franco regime in Spain. Main artists

and their works in Spain, main photo-

graphers and their works, samples of the

functionalist architecture from the 50’s

and its unquestioned Italian influence,

most popular cinema genres in Spain

and the censorship, and Music ‘top exits

in the 50s.

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A warming up “Workshop”: Using modern vases in he flower design of the 1950s

Passaggi published a book on

traditions of the local communi-

ty.

The book contains a collection

of three plays inspired by wed-

dings, family affairs, politics

and social intercourse.

During the meeting at Trebisac-

ce, participants played act III

from the Play “La Beffa”, in ita-

lian language, with some sen-

tences in calabrese dialect, that

was a result of a the work-

shop. In the workshop the parti-

cipant read the script, rehearsed

& finally presented

The exeperience was an enjoy-

able and funny way to get to

know social and family beha-

viour in the 50s and early 60s.

Caterina De Nardi

We were very happy to wel-

come our project partners in

the centre of Munich. The

meeting place offered the

surrounding of 3 institutions

of AdultEducation: Family

Education Center www.efbs-

muc.de (with special offers

in the field of healthcare and

health education); Evangeli-

sche Stadtakademie / Prote-

s t a n t C i t y A c a d e m y

www.evstadtakademie.de ;

Evangelisches Bildungswerk

www.ebw-muenchen.de .

Additional to the meeting

program we visited Munich

City Museum http://

www.muenchnerstadtmuseu

m.de/en/ with a temporary

exhibition Munich“ seen by

students from the Maximi-

lian University of Munich.

Photography of the war-

ming up “Workshop”: Using

modern vases in he flower

design of the 1950s

Jurghen

THE FEELING OF A PEOPLE IN A COMEDY ABOUT THE 1950s

4TH MEETING IN MUNICH

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A “Workshop”: Playing a comedy on the 1950s

The European Commission (Grundtvig Programme) funded a 2-year project by partner coun-tries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and United Kingdom) to capture memories of the 1950s by those who lived through this decade. It is intended that this project would be used to stimu-late inter-generational learning between the countries of the Europe-an Union and other mate-rial has been posted both on our w e b s i t e ( h t t p : / /www.1950scomingback.eu/

Christine Lester

To capture memories of the 1950s

www.1950scomingback.eu

http://

www.1950scomingback.eu/?

page_id=2028

https://www.facebook.com/

pages/1950s-coming-

back/203876806364123?

fref=ts

http://www.passaggi.org

EVALUATION RESULTS FROM THE LAST MEETING

IN SPAIN

United Europe needs a com-

mon collective memory. Even if

continent was divided in the 50s

with iron curtain, people had, in

their everyday life the same

human needs. We still have lot

of people who remember the

fifties and today we have still

possibility to collect both child-

hood and adulthood memories

from fifties. People who remem-

ber fifties are today approxima-

tely 55 and older. It does not

matter what age they were in

fifties or what geographical

background they had - they all

have been witnesses of same

historical processes. We belie-

ve that the final product of our

two year work will be really en-

In our last meeting, which took place in

Barcelona in late April 2013, we were

presenting the planned topic, Arts &

Entertainment in the 50s. Our meetings

have usually consisted of country pre-

sentations about the different topics

about the 50s, and also depict certain

outputs of the project with the main

purpose to concretise further actions in

order to provide a smooth execution of

the Action plan. In this last meeting

participants were enthusiastic to listen

and learn about other national memories

and their realities .

Although the presentations were intere-

sting, a few participants mentioned in

the questionnaires that they were too

short. One participant found that some

presentations were not detailed enough

and that we should have done a compari-

son or contrast between the different

countries memories of 1950’s. But time

didn’t allow for that, since it was deci-

ded before-hand to dedicate more time

to go through the issues concerning the

website and the final report.

The participants were in general in fa-

vour of all sessions and participated in

all of them. Though some members were

of opinion that some subjects about the

drafting of the final report could be

discussed via Huddle. All the sessions

were seen as useful, although some of

them should have been more structured.

Regarding the extent and value of the

intercultural partnership and the extent

of opportunities for participants to

share information about their own coun-

tries, we can be satisfied with the part-

ners’ views on the opportunities for the

exchange of information. We think that

the cohesion of the group was on appro-

priate level, and feel that the level of

communication and the occasions for it,

have been greatly exploited in this mee-

t i n g a n d t h r o u g h i t .

When questioning the organisation of

the transnational meeting, the majority

of participants found the meeting was

well organised with clear planning and

realistic time scales. Everybody agreed

that we had important concerns about

the website and the Final Report to deal

with We managed to finish all the ope-

ned questions regarding our project.

Nevertheless all those who made some

comments agree that all the planned

work for the meeting was done. Al-

though a couple of critiques were repor-

ted on the questionnaires, which aimed

‘to have discussed background issues’. In

spite of very intense and tiring meeting

the participants seem to be pleased, as

we managed to produce the action plan

which outlines our final work. Partners

seemed to be very satisfied with the

suitability of resources and equipment,

with the quality and appropriateness of

the hotels and food services and com-

fort. As partners stayed in different

hotels, some found the distance from

the hotel to the venue, where the mee-

tings took place not too far, although

weather conditions did not accompany

them on their walks. And those staying

far from the venue found that there

were good transport services. A few

participants have reported that would

have preferred that all partners

had stayed in the same hotel in or-

der to mix more in a social context . It was a pity that the dreadful weather

condition didn’t allow to do the social

and cultural activity planned for one

evening. This would have been an oppor-

tunity to foster intercultural dialogue

and more participation among the mem-

bers as well as celebrate the opportuni-

ty of having met and worked together

d u r i n g t w o y e a r s .

The results of the meeting evaluations

were quite encouraging, but of course,

there were things that could be im-

proved.

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Born in the 50s

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This project has been funded

with support from the Euro-

pean Commission. This publi-

cation [communication] re-

flects the views only of the au-

thor, and the Commission can-

not be held responsible for any

use which may be made of the

information contained there in