On September 14, 2006, Alexander Otto, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation, opened the two-day international "Changing City" conference at the Colosseum Theater in Essen with an appeal to the grand coalition in Berlin to reform the laws for public-benefit associations.
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On the invitation of Prof. Dr. Willi Alda, CEO of Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH, the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation held a meeting on the 43th floor of the Trianon building on the Mainzer Landstrasse boulevard.
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At its regular meeting in Hamburg, the Board of Trustees of the “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation today decided to stage the next European Foundation congress in Hamburg under the motto “Living in the City”.
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“Civic planning and design: innovative, intelligent, cost-efficient” – this was the topical theme of the two-day symposium staged by the “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation at the Congress Centre in Leipzig on October 9 and 10, 2003 with the support of the German Congress of Cities. Over 350 experts from the fields of science, politics, administration, culture and business exchanged ideas and developed solutions for innovative and future-oriented civic planning using light, colour, green spaces, water and media shows.
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The competition for the Foundation Award has drawn a huge response: 161 museums and cultural locations from all over Germany – from Flensburg to Constance and from Aachen to Frankfurt/Oder – have submitted entries for the Award of the nonprofit “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation that carries a prize of € 10,000. The theme of this year’s competition, now in its third year, is the best concept for lively museums and modern cultural locations.
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The nonprofit “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation was able to look back on a range of successful activities at its third meeting in Düsseldorf Town Hall on Friday, March 21, 2003. In his words of welcome, Düsseldorf Lord Mayor Joachim Erwin said that much could be achieved with creative ideas and the voluntary efforts and commitment of people throughout Germany.
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Following an initiative of the “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation and ECE, more than € 1.5 million in donations have been collected for the victims of the flood disaster during the past few weeks. Visitors to the 65 ECE shopping centers in Germany have donated a massive € 500,000 of this total.
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On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, Bundestag President Thierse will be opening Germany’s biggest outdoor art exhibition on “The City of the Future” in Berlin together with Alexander Otto, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation, and Dr. Andreas Mattner, Chairman of the Foundation’s Executive Committee. The opening ceremony in the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden complex will be accompanied by a musical performance of the “Quintett der Komischen Oper Berlin”. In addition, artists will be painting their visions of an urban future in an “open studio”.
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More than 250 mayors, planning directors, members of parliament, business leaders and civic marketing experts followed an invitation of the Stiftung “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation to come together in the “Autostadt” theme park in Wolfsburg on September 26 and 27 to discuss the “City of the Future”.
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The invitation by the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation to the first-ever Innovation Congress in Germany - "The City as a Stage" – generated an excellent response.During the Congress, the Foundation – in cooperation with the City of Leipzig – announced the “LE-frequence” architects, made up of architects Ellen Kafka and Claudia Bucher, the singer Ines Krautwurst, the sculptor Uwe Bucher and the media artist Ritchie Riediger, as the winners of the design competition for the Otto-Runki-Platz square in Leipzig.
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