Schloss Bröllin - Youth Culture

Cultural youth work at Schloss Bröllin focuses on the organisation and running of international youth projects with young people from Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland as well as from the local Uecker-Randow district.

The aim of such projects is to produce a public presentation in Bröllin and other venues. Along with diverse language and theatre workshops, a musical is produced every year.

The youth cultural programme also involves theme-based recreation, German-Polish music workshops and concerts with international youth bands and young musicians from the region.

Opportunities

Bröllin provides a chance to be seen onstage. The “make-believe” of theatre offers young people the chance to dive into undreamed-of or intimidating roles, and learn from them through role-playing.

There is also Bröllin’s alternative way of living. In winter, for example, groups discover that instead of central heating, they have to heat their own rooms using firewood. Experience from previous projects has shown that this “unfinished nature” of Bröllin animates participants’ own imagination and spurs them on in their own ideas and activities.

The premise of international projects involving EU and non-EU states is the broadening of one’s own horizons, as well as challenging stereotypes. Experience reveals this often occurs after group projects in Bröllin.

In the case of German-Polish projects, though Poland’s status as an outsider region has changed by joining the EU, there remain cultural as well as material differences. Here German-Polish projects can contribute to contribute to local self-confidence in the border-region, by creating opportunities for future generations to meet “the others” with a spirit of curiosity and tolerance.

One focus of Bröllin’s youth work is young people from the Uecker-Randow region, where opportunities and accessibility for young people is limited. Through close involvement in art-projects and youth-work, they start to find inspiration and open their minds.

For these many reasons we search together with the participants in projects for the aims and statements of the group, and for the content and manner of the final performance.