„LEBENDIGE STADT“ FOUNDATION

In the nonprofit "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation, state minister presidents, government ministers, lord mayors, CEOs, scientists and leading cultural figures work together to maintain and promote the vibrancy of European cities. As part of this endeavor, the Foundation supports "best practice" models, presents an annual Foundation Award and organizes forums for the exchange of ideas and experience between the involved parties. The well-known projects of the Foundation include the illumination of the Rhine bank in Cologne, the revitalization of Hamburg's "Jungfernstieg" boulevard and the redevelopment of the church courtyard of the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig, where the peaceful revolution of the former GDR began

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
PROGRAM ON THE EVE OF THE CONFERENCE

06.00 pm, Restaurant Gaffel am Dom
Presentation of the Foundation Award
“Paths In The City: Child-friendly Mobility Concepts” by

Director: Robin Brosch
Lighting: Created by Michael Batz with the support of Philips Lighting GmbH
Production: "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

With the support of the City of Cologne, the Cathedral Chapter and the Master Builder of the High Cathedral.


The series of outstanding and unusual performances during the Foundation conference continues with a play that not only takes place in front of Cologne Cathedral but also incorporates the impressive building in the plot. The richness of the external facade of the cathedral with its many shapes and figures is the starting point for a story about the city and time, action and decision, values and love.

In a turbulent but thoughtful comedy, gargoyles and figures above the southern entrance are "brought down to earth". They can avoid the fate of being turned back into stone on one condition: that, within a short space of time, they find a person who loves them. In an exciting light setting, they climb down onto the stage and interact with a world they normally only see from their perch up high and in which they have never learned to move about in. Then the race against time begins.

"The Cologne Cathedral Play" was written specifically to mark the Foundation conference. This is the first time the cathedral has been made available for a project of this kind.

Afterwards Restaurant Gaffel am Dom

AFTER -SHOW GET-TOGETHER

HATICE AKYÜN
Journalist and publicist

PETER ALTMAIER MDB
Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of the Interior

DR. DANIEL ARNOLD
CEO of Deutsche Reihenhaus

SEBASTIAN BOCK
Pupil, winner of "Youth Debates", NRW

PROF. DR. DR. KARLHEINZ BRANDENBURG
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology

STEFAN BRENDGEN
Managing Director of Allianz Real Estate Germany and Board member of Allianz Real Estate

DRS. H.M.F. BRULS
Mayor of Venlo, Netherlands

HEINZ BUSCHKOWSKY
District Mayor of Berlin-Neukölln

MORTEN CARLSSON
CEO of PROCON MultiMedia AG

FERDOS FORUDASTAN
Author, publicist, freelance journalist and lecturer at various institutes
including the Institute of Journalism at Dortmund University

DR. UWE FRANKE
CEO of Deutsche BP and initiator of the "Charter of Diversity of German Companies"

DR. ROLAND GERSCHERMANN
Managing Director, FAZ newspaper,
member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt”

DR. RALPH GIORDANO
Publicist

DR. FRANK HANSER
Managing Director, DSK Deutsche Stadt- und Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft

BURKHARD JUNG
Lord Mayor of Leipzig,
member of the Foundation Board, "Lebendige Stadt"

SUFFRAGAN DR. HEINER KOCH
Archbishopric of Cologne

NINA-CAROLIN KRUMNAU
Pupil, runner-up of “Youth Debates”, NRW

PROF. DR. NORBERT LAMMERT MDB
President of the German Bundestag

DR. FRANZISKA LEHMANN
Co-partner of Proloco - the example of Munich

LUTZ LIENENKÄMPER
Minister of Construction and Transport, North Rhine-Westphalia

DR. EVA LOHSE
Lord Mayor of  Ludwigshafen

HERBERT MAI
Board member of Fraport, Executive Director Labor Relations,
Ambassador of the corporate "Success Factor Family" program

DR. ANDREAS MATTNER
Chairman of the Executive Board, "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

DR. ELISABETH MERK
Urban Planning Officer, Munich

HILDEGARD MÜLLER
Former Minister of State of the Federal Chancellor, Chairwoman of the
Central Management Board of the German Energy and Water Association (BDEW), member of the Board of Trustees of the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

KONSTANTIN NEVEN DUMONT
Member of the Management Board of the M. DuMont Schauberg Group

ALEXANDER OTTO
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

DR. WOLFGANG REINIGER
Lord Mayor of Essen,
member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt”

DIPL.-ING. THOMAS REITER
Member of the Executive Board and responsible for space research and development at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), (astronaut)

ALAN RUDGE
Councillor, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Human Resources, City of Birmingham, England

DR. JÜRGEN RÜTTGERS
Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia

WOLFGANG SCHMITZ
Director of WDR Radio

FRITZ SCHRAMMA
Lord Mayor of Cologne,
member of the Board of Trustees of the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

HERMANN GRAF VON DER SCHULENBURG
CEO of Deutsche Bahn Stadtverkehr

DR. WOLFGANG SCHUSTER
Lord Mayor of Stuttgart,
member of the Foundation Board “Lebendige Stadt”

MIKE STOREY
Lord Mayor of Liverpool

BERND STREITBERGER
Alderman, City of Cologne

WOLFGANG TIEFENSEE
German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs

Dr. MICHAEL VESPER
Executive Director, German Olympic Sports Federation

MARGIT VOLLMERT
Director, Caparol ColorDesignStudio

HEINZ-JOACHIM WEBER
Production Director of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk broadcasting company

ANDREAS WENTE
CEO Philips Deutschland GmbH, Director of the Lighting DACH division

ANDREAS WIEDEMANN
Principal of the “In der Alten Forst” school

DR. ANDRÉ ZEUG
CEO of DB Station & Service AG

Day One
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
CHILDREN

Children are our future, yet in Germany there is just one child for every 4.4 adults on average – one of the lowest figures worldwide. UNICEF criticizes Germany for making insufficient efforts to create a child-friendly living environment, be it in the area of traffic safety, leisure facilities or the design of school classrooms. The German government recently introduced the legal entitlement to a place in a childcare nursery. At the same time, local residents in Hamburg filed a legal action to prevent the opening of a nursery because of excessive noise levels. How do cities and municipalities resolve this contradiction between expectations and reality? And what steps do they take to ensure that public spaces are child-friendly?

Words of welcom
LUTZ LIENENKÄMPER
Minister of Construction and Transport, North Rhine-Westphalia

DR. DANIEL ARNOLD
CEO of Deutsche Reihenhaus

SEBASTIAN BOCK
pupil, winner of “Youth Debates”, NRW

Day One
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
MEDIA

The media dominate the public arena: illuminated advertising pillars, billboards and entire building facades ensure a colorful cityscape even at night. Many cities are generating ever-higher and much-needed income for the municipal coffers by leasing public space to street furniture providers. DSL boxes and transmission masts guarantee full-coverage communication networks. But what do cities do to ensure that this media prevalence does not impair the quality of public spaces, creating a sameness and uniformity throughout the country driven by nationwide advertising campaigns? How do our cities use new media to become more effectively integrated with each other and to improve the standard of services for the local people?

Chair
MAIK KLOKOW
CEO and Producer
of the Klokow Group

ROSWITHA WENZL
Children’s Representative
of Stuttgart

DR. JÜRGEN RÜTTGERS
Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia

2010 CONFERENCE IN MUNICH

DAY TWO
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE CITY

The existence of different cultures helps to make our cities more vibrant but also creates major challenges. One highly illustrative and serious example of this is the conflict over the building of new mosques. The bone of contention in these cases is not just the height of the minaret but concerns the fundamental problem of the "clash of cultures". The successful integration of different cultures is key to determining whether diversity leads to new ideas and mutually beneficial ideas –or whether it results in fear and hatred. How do cities handle cultural integration and how do they prevent the creation of parallel societies and ghettoization? How can cities work together with associations and other organizations to create new cultural identification models?

DR. RALPH GIORDANO
publicist

SUFFRAGAN DR. HEINER KOCH
Archbishopric of Cologne

“What Would Dortmund Be Without Borussia?
Old and New Sporting Cultures and Civic Identity”
DR. MICHAEL VESPER
Executive Director, German Olympic Sports Federation
 

FRING PROGRAM

Guided tour of Cologne Cathedral

N.B. The tour is in German only!

Get to know Cologne Cathedral first hand; find out about its 800-year history, its works of art and its impressive architecture. Enjoy a tour of the world's third-largest church and Germany's most popular tourist attraction.

Registration for the tour is binding; the tour is free for conference attendees and can be booked using the fax reply form for the conference. There are only a limited number of tickets, and these will be allocated based on receipt of booking requests. You will be sent your booking confirmation together with the confirmation of your registration for the conference.

Tour behind the scenes of the WDR studios in the city center

Hear more. See more. Experience more. Would you like to know what lies behind the voices and sounds that come out of your radio – and also take a look behind the TV screen? To see which specialists join forces to produce a particular program, what goes on in a studio, how the scheduling process works?

The tours through the production premises of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk broadcasting studios will provide unusual insights into the world of the media. The tours are free of charge but are also extremely popular, so we advise you to book as early as possible. Your place on the tour is reserved as soon as we send you confirmation of your booking.

To register for the tour, contact:
WDR-Öffentlichkeitsarbeit (PR Office), Besucher-Service
50600 Cologne, phone +49 (0)221 220 6744

Chocolate Museum

Rheinauhalbinsel 1a,
50678 Altstadt-Süd, Cologne,
phone +49 (0)221-9318880

Duration: variable
Price: 7.50 euros per person

The Chocolate Museum – with an architectural design resembling a ship made of glass and metal – lies on the Rheinauhafen peninsula, directly in front of the Old Town quarter and close to the famous Cologne Cathedral.. The tour of the three exhibition levels represents a journey through the 3,000-year cultural history of chocolate: from the ambrosia of the Aztecs all the way to a modern-day industrial product.

Your can register for the tour using the fax registration form for the conference. There are only a limited number of tickets, and these will be allocated based on receipt of booking requests. You will be sent the tickets and the invoice together with the confirmation of your registration for the conference.

BAP concert

A homage to all the good spirits of rock'n'roll. BAP will be presenting a set compiled specifically for this evening, a special selection from the 200-plus songs the band has released to date.

On this very special evening, Wolfgang Niedecke and his fellow BAP band members will be supported by violinist Anne de Wolff (Rosenstolz, Calexico). They all invite the audience to embark on a unique journey, to immerse themselves in an intense musical experience featuring the well-known strengths of BAP – the joy of performing, interaction with the public, euphoria and a concert length (3 hours) that has long since become legendary.

FEE

The charge of 175 € plus VAT includes the conference fee for both days as well as the price of the award ceremony and the Cathedral Play on Wednesday and the evening event on Thursday. There are no reductions for non-attendance at any of the events during the conference.



REGISTRATION

Registration-form (PDF)
Please direct queries to events@lebendige-stadt.de or
call  +49 (0)40-60 87 61 69.
Registrations may be cancelled at no cost up to August 26, 2009.

The speeches and presentations at the event will be simultaneously interpreted into English.

You can book hotels directly (stating the reference "Lebendige Stadt") at the following rates. We offer a bus shuttle service for these hotels.