Meet your prejudice: Living library enables unusual encounters in Berlin-Spandau.

Meet your prejudice: Living library enables unusual encounters in Berlin-Spandau.

meet your prejudice: Under this motto, the "Living Library" on November 12, 2023 in the Spandau district central library in Berlin offers the opportunity to meet unusual encounters with people affected by intolerance and discrimination. At this event, no books tell, but people who are all affected in any form of prejudices.

The "Living Library" works like an ordinary library, only that you bend a living book for a while. These living books are people who make themselves available for personal conversations. Interested parties can ask you all questions, provided that there is mutual respect. Among the volunteers are a former homeless and alcoholic, a wheelchair user, a whole body tattooed, a trans woman, a woman with a bipolar disorder, a blind woman and a woman with a headscarf.

This project took place in the Spandau City Library in 2019 and met with great interest. The repetition of this event in 2023 is intended to help meet the challenges of the time. Through personal encounters in the library, people of different origins, religion, attitude, challenges and life situations can come together and come into dialogue. The goal is to reduce prejudices and to promote more tolerance and cohesion in society.

The idea of not gaining experiences from books, but questioning people first hand, was created in Copenhagen in 2000. In the meantime, this idea has been implemented in over 90 countries worldwide. The founder and chair of the Berlin association "Living Library", Louise Kreuschner, explains: "We want to dismantle prejudices, we make contacts for this."

The "Living Library" will take place on November 12, 2023 from 12 noon to 5 p.m. in the reading café of the Spandau district central library. Admission is free. The event is organized and carried out by the non -profit association living library e.V.

Source: According to a report by www.berlin.de