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The Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius was founded in 1971 by Gerd Bucerius
(1906–1995). The name refers to the founder, his second wife Gertrud Ebel (1911–1997) whose nickname was Ebelin, and to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit
, which was founded by Gerd Bucerius. The foundation is registered in Hamburg
. Its main aim is to fund projects in research and scholarship, arts and culture, as well as education and training.
in Cambridge, USA, with a ZEIT Fellowship. In the 1980s, Gerd Bucerius actively supported stronger competitiveness in higher education in Germany, and gave substantial sums to the private university Witten/Herdecke
. In order to promote Hamburg's literary scene, the founder acquired a villa on the outer Alster lake, and made it available rent free to the City of Hamburg and the Literaturhaus-Verein, that since 1989 has been running the venue as Literaturhaus Hamburg. In the 1990s, the foundation enhanced its involvement in academia and set up the Gerd Bucerius-Juraprogramm, a scholarship programme for highly qualified young lawyers. Until his death Gerd Bucerius, through his foundation, was able to fund 90 projects with a total sum of 15 million €. Upon the death of its founder in 1995, followed by that of his wife in 1997, the couples' private assets were bequeathed to the foundation in their entirety. Over the past ten years, the foundation has allotted a funding total of 157,5 million €. In total, 1.758 applications were granted funding; this amounted to 1.115 individual projects. (The figures reflect the total at the end of the year 2010).
has acted as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
and Bucerius Kunst Forum
that are representative of its engagement in research, the arts, and education.
, which was founded in 2000. The foundation's investment in research and scholarship is centred on the humanities; currently the leading project is the PhD scholarship programme on migration studies, Settling Into Motion. The summer school History Takes Place is an urban studies programme. In Israel the foundation runs the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society
at the University of Haifa. The Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C., initiated and funded by the foundation in collaboration with other organizations, develops policy solutions for current social and political questions. The foundation was one of the initiators of the German Historical Institute Moscow. There, the foundation holds an annual lecture series, and does the same at the German Historical Institute Washington, where it also funds the publication of German historical documents and images as an online resource for German history from 1500 onwards.
on Hamburg's city hall
square as an exhibition venue for the arts. It shows four exhibitions every year, always with their own additional programme, and there are also independent concert and events series. The foundation also provides funding for projects in Hamburg's other museums, for example creating an academic archive of the collection of copperplate engravings.
The ZEIT-Stiftung supports the Hamburger Lessingtage at the Thalia Theater
, which testify to the lasting relevance of one of Hamburg's leading literary figures. Hamburg's musical tradition is presented and documented in the eleven-part concert and CD series Musica Sacra Hamburgensis – Wiederentdeckungen Hamburger Kirchenmusik (rediscovering Hamburg's church music). Other key projects in music are the new production of Richard Wagner
’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
and the Easter concerts Hamburger Ostertöne. The foundation also supports master classes at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
and the scheme Preisträger in Residence (prize winner in residence) at the music festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, all of which demonstrate the foundation's continued engagement in the diversity of North Germany's musical landscape.
As part of its investment in journalistic programmes, since 2000 the ZEIT-Stiftung has awarded the Gerd Bucerius-Förderpreis Freie Presse Osteuropas (Gerd Bucerius Prize Free Press of Eastern Europe), which encourages journalists and publications to continue independent reporting in the face of obstacles and repression. The Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance each year brings together young leaders from politics, business and finance, academia, the media and NGOs to join experts in a discussion on strategies and concepts for successful governance in the face of mounting global challenges.
, Max Warburg
and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. Furthermore, the foundation publishes a series on immigrants in Hamburg who have had an impact on the city and its culture. The title Skandinavien in Hamburg is the last in a series that also comprises publications on the Italian, Russian and Portuguese influence on the city: Italien in Hamburg, Russland in Hamburg, and Portugal in Hamburg. China in Hamburg will be the next addition. Both Bucerius Law School and the Bucerius Kunst Forum have publication series of their own.
Gerd Bucerius
Gerd Bucerius was a German politician and journalist, one of the founding members of Die Zeit. He is the namesake of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, an art gallery....
(1906–1995). The name refers to the founder, his second wife Gertrud Ebel (1911–1997) whose nickname was Ebelin, and to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit
Die Zeit
Die Zeit is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism.With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper...
, which was founded by Gerd Bucerius. The foundation is registered in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. Its main aim is to fund projects in research and scholarship, arts and culture, as well as education and training.
History
The first scholarships in the 1970s were awarded to young journalists who were able to work at Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
in Cambridge, USA, with a ZEIT Fellowship. In the 1980s, Gerd Bucerius actively supported stronger competitiveness in higher education in Germany, and gave substantial sums to the private university Witten/Herdecke
Witten/Herdecke University
Witten/Herdecke University is a private university in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Unlike most other German universities, it is a private enterprise with about 1100 students and 400 employees...
. In order to promote Hamburg's literary scene, the founder acquired a villa on the outer Alster lake, and made it available rent free to the City of Hamburg and the Literaturhaus-Verein, that since 1989 has been running the venue as Literaturhaus Hamburg. In the 1990s, the foundation enhanced its involvement in academia and set up the Gerd Bucerius-Juraprogramm, a scholarship programme for highly qualified young lawyers. Until his death Gerd Bucerius, through his foundation, was able to fund 90 projects with a total sum of 15 million €. Upon the death of its founder in 1995, followed by that of his wife in 1997, the couples' private assets were bequeathed to the foundation in their entirety. Over the past ten years, the foundation has allotted a funding total of 157,5 million €. In total, 1.758 applications were granted funding; this amounted to 1.115 individual projects. (The figures reflect the total at the end of the year 2010).
Organization
The statutory organs consist of a Board of Directors and a Board of Trustees. Following the death of the founder, Professor Dr. Michael Göring was appointed Executive Director in 1997; he has been President of the Board since 2005. Since 1995, Professor dres. h.c. Manfred LahnsteinManfred Lahnstein
Manfred Lahnstein is a German politician . In 1982 he was German Federal Minister of Finance as well as Federal Minister of Economics and until 2004 worked for the media conglomerate Bertelsmann.- Family :...
has acted as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Mission statement
The foundation is an independent charitable foundation under German law. It regards itself as an integral part of an active civil society, where it aims to promote private endeavour. The foundation carries out its activities in the spirit of civic responsibility with a view to strengthening civil society. In accordance with its statutes, the focus of its activities are research and scholarship, and arts and culture, as well as education and training. Innovation, creativity and sustainability are the guiding principles for the foundation's investment in promoting knowledge, sponsoring culture and developing competencies.Conditions for grants
The foundation mainly funds projects initiated and run by it. It also funds the projects of applicants from Hamburg, Germany, and other countries, provided that their ventures comply with the statutes and conditions for grants of the foundation. In 2010, the foundation was able to dispose of revenues of ca. 23 million € accrued from the assets of the foundation. As one of the largest privately-funded foundations in Germany with assets of 732 million € (end of financial year 2010) the foundation has also established institutions of its own, and in doing so has undertaken sustainable and long-term commitments. The foundation is flanked by the two independent institutions Bucerius Law SchoolBucerius Law School
Bucerius Law School is a small, non-state university affiliated private law school located in Hamburg, Germany. The school is the first private law school in Germany and is often ranked as the best law school in the country. It admits 100 bachelor students per year, who achieve very high results in...
and Bucerius Kunst Forum
Bucerius Kunst Forum
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that are representative of its engagement in research, the arts, and education.
Research and scholarship
The flagship of this enterprise is Germany's only private law school, the Bucerius Law SchoolBucerius Law School
Bucerius Law School is a small, non-state university affiliated private law school located in Hamburg, Germany. The school is the first private law school in Germany and is often ranked as the best law school in the country. It admits 100 bachelor students per year, who achieve very high results in...
, which was founded in 2000. The foundation's investment in research and scholarship is centred on the humanities; currently the leading project is the PhD scholarship programme on migration studies, Settling Into Motion. The summer school History Takes Place is an urban studies programme. In Israel the foundation runs the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society
Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society
The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa was established in 2001 by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and its chairman, Professor Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein. The Institute is committed to the research of social and...
at the University of Haifa. The Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C., initiated and funded by the foundation in collaboration with other organizations, develops policy solutions for current social and political questions. The foundation was one of the initiators of the German Historical Institute Moscow. There, the foundation holds an annual lecture series, and does the same at the German Historical Institute Washington, where it also funds the publication of German historical documents and images as an online resource for German history from 1500 onwards.
Arts and culture
In 2002 the foundation established the Bucerius Kunst ForumBucerius Kunst Forum
-External links:* . Retrieved on 2009-10-08....
on Hamburg's city hall
Hamburg Rathaus
The Hamburg Rathaus is the Rathaus—the city hall or town hall—of Hamburg, Germany, it is the seat of the government of Hamburg, located in the Altstadt quarter in the city centre, near the lake Binnenalster and the central station...
square as an exhibition venue for the arts. It shows four exhibitions every year, always with their own additional programme, and there are also independent concert and events series. The foundation also provides funding for projects in Hamburg's other museums, for example creating an academic archive of the collection of copperplate engravings.
The ZEIT-Stiftung supports the Hamburger Lessingtage at the Thalia Theater
Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1843 by Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after the muse Thalia...
, which testify to the lasting relevance of one of Hamburg's leading literary figures. Hamburg's musical tradition is presented and documented in the eleven-part concert and CD series Musica Sacra Hamburgensis – Wiederentdeckungen Hamburger Kirchenmusik (rediscovering Hamburg's church music). Other key projects in music are the new production of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner . The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied...
and the Easter concerts Hamburger Ostertöne. The foundation also supports master classes at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival is a classical music festival held every year in summer time all over the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany....
and the scheme Preisträger in Residence (prize winner in residence) at the music festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, all of which demonstrate the foundation's continued engagement in the diversity of North Germany's musical landscape.
Education and training
The ZEIT-Stiftung aims to improve schools. It provides studies and career advice for secondary pupils and has set up the campus project Mehr Migranten werden Lehrer for young people from a migrant background. The foundation has also developed an innovative aptitude testing scheme for teacher training candidates and also provides professional development training and networking opportunities for future headmasters. The reading scheme Bucerius LERN-WERK Lesen promotes reading skills in schools in North Germany. The foundation was the driving force behind the establishment of a day care centre at Bucerius Law School, which is open for the children of students and staff, as well as children from the neighbourhood. Since 2000, the prize Bibliothek des Jahres (library of the year), the only nationwide library prize, has been awarded to user-friendly libraries.As part of its investment in journalistic programmes, since 2000 the ZEIT-Stiftung has awarded the Gerd Bucerius-Förderpreis Freie Presse Osteuropas (Gerd Bucerius Prize Free Press of Eastern Europe), which encourages journalists and publications to continue independent reporting in the face of obstacles and repression. The Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance each year brings together young leaders from politics, business and finance, academia, the media and NGOs to join experts in a discussion on strategies and concepts for successful governance in the face of mounting global challenges.
Publications
The foundation's own publication series, Hamburger Köpfe, portrays leading personalities of Hamburg past and present, such as Karl SchillerKarl Schiller
Karl August Fritz Schiller was a German scientist and politician of the Social Democratic Party . From 1966 to 1972, he was Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1971 to 1972 Federal Minister of Finance...
, Max Warburg
Max Warburg
Max M. Warburg was a German-born Jewish banker and from 1910 until 1938, director of M.M.Warburg & CO in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to his directing of the Warburg banking company, he developed apprenticeships in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, and London...
and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. Furthermore, the foundation publishes a series on immigrants in Hamburg who have had an impact on the city and its culture. The title Skandinavien in Hamburg is the last in a series that also comprises publications on the Italian, Russian and Portuguese influence on the city: Italien in Hamburg, Russland in Hamburg, and Portugal in Hamburg. China in Hamburg will be the next addition. Both Bucerius Law School and the Bucerius Kunst Forum have publication series of their own.