Zukunftswerkstatt Jena

Qui sommes-nous

At the time of the political change in 1990 and the end of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) and the FDJ (free German youth) many people had to orientate themselves new. The ground was cut from under the feet of many of them, they all had to learn to walk on the new ground.

We started to meet regularly with some good friends, but also new friends. We participated alone or together in all kinds of attempts to organize the new life - but we stayed away from repeated attempts of adsorption.

As some of us had already worked out written information material referring to the question of the "global problems of mankind" (INFO 84) in 1984, when they belonged to the "FDJ", we were interested in asking ourselves again about the contents.

The result of our discussions was then finally available in 2000 copies of 100-pages of "INFOs 92", which have meanwhile been distributed completely. In these "INFOs 92" we noted our new discoveries in the field of society and ecology to which we in principle keep still today. The result which was more important was also the experience that you can reach further insight during friendly discussions even proceeding from different opinions.

Then, most of us have had enough of theory. We built a real future workshop. The result was that a young woman helped to found a free kindergarten and also other activities were supported by the circle of friends. Our activities and interests bring us together again and again. The situation in the summer of 1996 was that we had planned a large round of talks on the subject "partnership" which covers the field from personal matters via the former living as partners in "matriarchates" and the relation to the "risk society". Some interested persons will also continue the philosophical discussions. Apart from that, we continue to meet regularly. Contact is possible through me, Annette Schlemm. I mainly deal with the subjects self-organization, development, chaos theory, system and legal terms, dialectic (in particular classical German philosophy), theory of insight, global problems of mankind, future-compliance, relationship man-nature.

After prior agreement, we offer overnight accommodation for other net participants, we can give expert advice, deliver an expert opinion, give a lecture, communicate up-to-date specialist information and arrange for contacts in the fields of self-organization and theory of society, principles of development.