Theme years
What concerns us:
With our theme years we face the urgent questions of our time. We invite renowned guests from politics, culture and science, bring experts, activists and a broad public into conversation with each other and take time in over 100 events for the diverse aspects of a complex world. Social formats and museum educational activities invite everyone to engage creatively with the challenges of the present..
streitbar
Disputes are as much a part of human interaction as language is of communication. The more extensive the possibilities of communication and the exchange of information among each other become, the more points of contention arise, the more conflicts come to a head. At the same time, arguing is constitutive for our democracy. An open society thrives on debate about contentious issues. For this reason, we have made the culture of dispute our annual theme in 2023. With renowned guests and new event formats around the annual exhibition, we take a look at historical and contemporary perspectives and thus make a central contribution to the city-wide theme year »Cultures of Dispute«.
Ganz im Affekt
Emotions influence our decisions, shape our everyday lives, drive us in what we do and significantly shape the way we live together. Under the motto "Ganz im Affekt", the Francke Foundations devoted all their attention to emotions in their 2022 annual programme. With exciting guests and current topics, we sought answers from different perspectives to the question of how much emotion our social cohesion can actually take, what role emotions play in politics and the media today, whether and which emotions are good for democratic opinion-forming and what actually makes us happy. Learn more about emotions in the Foundation's history and in our programme of events in the annual magazine.
Vorsicht! Umsicht: Rücksicht.
Our view of health and well-being
Health has always been a valuable commodity. Exactly 300 years ago, medical history was written in the Francke Foundations: August Hermann Francke (1663-1727) had a hospital building built in 1721, which today can be considered the first children's hospital in Europe. The public consultation for the poor at the Halle orphanage, where up to 1,000 people a month were treated free of charge and supplied with medicines produced in the hospital pharmacy, was also groundbreaking. For historical and current reasons, the we were discussiong in our annual programme in 2021 Vorsicht! Rücksicht: Umsicht. Our view of health and well-being.
Berge versetzen
About the power of activity in past and present times
In 2020, we were focusing on civic engagement as a driving force for social change. 30 years ago, the starting signal was given for the revival of the Francke Foundations. It began with a group of committed citizens who joined together to form a circle of friends on 9 June 1990. They pursued the then unimaginable plan to bring the ruined ensemble of buildings back to life as a radiant educational institution. Today, the Francke Foundations impressively prove that energy and civic commitment can move mountains. Our annual magazine (in German) provides an overview of our annual programme, the most important news from our fields of work and unique insights into the Foundation's everyday life.
Komm mit – wohin?
An annual programme on crisis and departure
Extraordinary crises repeatedly present mankind with extraordinary challenges. How do people perceive crises and are we prepared to deal with the current crises - from climate change to the crisis of Western societies? With our Theme Year 2019, we have approached how to deal with the crises of the present and focused on values as central to us as democracy, education and justice. How can we meet the challenges of the 21st century and help shape the future ourselves?
Bewegte Zeiten
Zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Reisens
Schon seit Jahrtausenden sind Menschen in Bewegung. Bis heute hat sich daran nichts geändert. Die moderne globale Mobilität bietet dabei sowohl Chancen als auch Risiken. In unserem Jahresprogramm 2018 widmeten wir uns einer besonderen Form der organisierten Mobilität: dem Reisen. Dabei griffen wir aktuelle Facetten wie Migration, Tourismus, Kulturaustausch und Klimawandel auf.
Fragen stellen. Impulse setzen. Reformation verantworten
The Francke Foundations in the 2017 Reformation anniversary year
In the Annual Programme 2017 we moved the Reformation into the present and asked what it still has to say to us today. As the only exhibition in the Reformation anniversary we explicitly invited young people to deal with the topics of the Reformation from a very current perspective with the exhibition »Du bist frei«. What is important to you? What frightens you? Do you have role models? And what does freedom actually mean to you? With an interactive exhibition course, numerous participatory offers, creative theme evenings and youthful formats, we dared to post a modern theses all year round.
