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"If total power here," yells an already gray mixture unionists, as the march in the Hamburger University in motion. Beside him trillert Anne Marie Kriszun, 24, with a yellow pipe in the mouth.
"Today has learned? Independent Learning for All ', stands on its poster. "Employers always want interesting profiles of great students, but that is no longer possible," says Kriszun in the first half of foreign trade and international management studies.
Around them blow Pace-colored banners, on posters demonstrators opposed to tuition fees, the bachelor or equal to the entire educational system from. Some transported his own messages about a student has a phallus on his poster scribbled what drüber, is not for minors.
From a truck boom wummernde bass to riot and Remmi Demmi "from Deichkind. A small black block carries a banner in front of her, "Free education for all, otherwise there's riots" that is - but it remains just Remmidemmi, the mood is peaceful.
"Is it okay to want what the"
Three employees of the university are a bit off in suit and tie, are cited do not want them. "Is it okay, what the want," says one, while behind him some 50 students Unigebäude run - it could still be someone there who büffelt, instead of protesting.
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By verschulte bachelor's degree could no longer specialize Kriszun student says, "all make the same". As could only be through internships or other commitment in addition to studying excel, "but there is no time". "Yet we must sharpen our profile," repeated a girlfriend next to her, in his voice a mixture of indignation and despair.
In about 70 German cities are on Wednesday morning, students in their tens of thousands to the streets to provide for more money and reforms in education to demonstrate. Nationwide protests had called the Alliance for Education strike 2009 ". How many participants are in ongoing protests, there is as always at demonstrations controversial: The organizers are talking of about 240,000, police estimated the number of participants on average half as high.
Intense than elsewhere in Mainz went to. Nearly 100 demonstrators penetrated into the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate state capital, painted walls, cried out slogans and then moved again. It was, according to a spokesperson for the CDU and the photo exhibition "20 years of peaceful revolution" of the Group on the popular uprising in the GDR damaged. "I assume that a criminal complaint is made," said a spokesman of the parliament.
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On the fringes of the demonstration in Dortmund, with approximately 5000 participants penetrated approximately 200 young people into the town hall and chanted slogans. Some tore a tapestry from the wall, painted graffiti and threw mats, carpets in the courtyard and four flags were then respond, informed the police.
"I am more than four modules"
In Hamburg, gathered some 10,000 young demonstrators in Berlin attracted some 15,000 of the Red Town Hall from largely peacefully through the capital. At the corner Torstraße and unrolled Brunnenstraße two demonstrators from a house roof of a large banner on which they "riot and Remmidemmi" called red flags and pans. The demonstrators receipted with jubilation and moved on. On transparents stood to read: "I am more than four modules" or "rich parents for All."
Some students stormed, as already
the student strike in November 2008 in the Berlin Humboldt University (HU) and then triggered the fire alarm. They threw Klopapierrollen through the corridors and pans banners. Hannes Braun, 25, wants to study in October of the agricultural science and begin to demonstrate, especially for better conditions in his bachelor's degree. "In six semesters of the substance is unlikely to create," he says. "One should study the time to eight or ten semester expand."
The pupil Antonia, 18, from Berlin-Köpenick hopes that the government less money to spend on economic pacts - and more for education. What the success of the protests, it is Antonia optimistic: "Only someone who does something, it can also make a difference - although perhaps somewhat drags." In the early afternoon of the march ended in front of the headquarters of the Bertelsmann Foundation, in the vicinity of the HU is.
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Also in Bonn, gathered 3,000 participants for the large demonstration on Kaiserplatz. There had to be close associates of the CDU-Asta RCDS in the run-up to the students not to demonstrate and participate in the educational strike. In Wiesbaden, and Munster were also several thousand pupils and students with banners on the street in Heidelberg Occupied students on Wednesday afternoon, the vice-chancellorship.
The Alliance for Education strike 2009 "accumulate 230 mostly leftist groups of students and student and also by trade unions and political parties. What unites the protesters can be dimly seen: More money for education is one of many very general claims. Agree to the protesters as in the rejection of tuition fees and all other types of fees in the education sector.
The students criticized the shortened high school time by the Turbo-Abitur aka multi G8 and the school system. Otherwise, they are more teachers and smaller classes and more democracy in schools. The students criticized especially the implementation of the Bologna reforms, with those in Germany, the diploma and degree courses of Bachelor and Master of Master be converted. In addition, quite a lot left verschwurbelter academically receivables catch - in exchange for "economic constraints in the education and elite education, for" free alternative educational approaches, and more participation.
Schavan: "The protests are yesterday"
Federal research minister Annette Schavan (CDU), also formally responsible for Education, criticized the demonstrations of students and pupils in a radio interview. The protests were "yesterday," she said in reference to the criticism of the introduction of Bachelor and Master degree programs. The Bologna process was "no alternative" and offers many opportunities. Besides Schavan also criticized other politicians, and university representatives actions.
The SDS, Students Federation of the Left, on the other hand, spoke of "massive protest education since the founding of the FRG" - which is an exaggeration to be relevant. The chairman Juso Franziska Drohsel Research Minister Schavan described as "flat wrong". "Yesterday is the introduction of tuition fees and educational elitism of the Union". Still it was for "general population much harder, to make school than children of parents," said Drohsel blogs ONLINE.
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In many places has also been demonstrated from local reasons. So Hamburger demonstrators spoke out against the university president-Kurtz Monika Auweter from. On Pappschildern they called for motorists in the university district to oppose the
highly controversial president with a Hupkonzert to protest. The "horns against Moni" was a great success, especially the backing of society "against the leadership style of the president and the planned move of the university in the new Harbor City area, said the organizers. In Berlin also ran teacher at the demo and demonstrated for more pay in the current collective bargaining in the public service.
"Yesterdays? That's nonsense"
Wednesday is the culmination of the strike and protest week. On Thursday will be in action under the title "Bank attack" in front of bank branches and billions of aid to stumble into the precarious financial institutions and for more money in education can be demonstrated. Friday schedule some activists, the meeting of Education Ministers in Berlin to disturb.
At the very end of the Hamburg demonstration train goes Joachim Frisch, teacher at a college of social education. He is here with his class, "we make it a project, they should report back from the demonstration." So he can run. That Education Minister Schavan protests "Yesterday" is called, encourages him to - but this is nonsense. "The students think highly differentiated, they have a right to be heard." To a comment of a minister was simply inappropriate. "The universities will be reorganized according to criteria provided by consulting firms and not come to the idea of education to follow," he says.
Meanwhile, six men sit in suit and tie on a street corner to the table, it's lunch time, silently watching them from some distance passing the demonstrators. You work for a business, their company name and do not want to mention. "That's a good thing if young people will protest," says one. "And if the training is better, but that just comes to us good," says another.
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