Academic literature on the topic 'Marzahn (Berlin, Germany)'

Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel versteht sich als Forschungszwischenbericht sowie Kritik an bisherigen Erklärungsansätzen zur bisherigen Demokratieentwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit 1990. Am Beispiel des Ost-Berliner Bezirkes Marzahn-Hellersdorf wird auf der Basis qualitativer, narrativ-biografischer Interviews mit Bürger_innen des Bezirkes thesenartig zum einen eine Kritik traditioneller politiktheoretischer Begriffe wie privat und öffentlich, sozial und politisch am Material entfaltet. Dabei erscheinen die in der Bundesrepublik epistemisch ‚erfolgreichen‘ politikwissenschaftlichen Begriffe von Zivilgesellschaft, Engagement und Politik für Ostdeutschland unzureichend. Zum anderen wird auf der Basis des qualitativen Datenmaterials die These von der Entstehung einer ostdeutschen Öffentlichkeit, einer Ost-Sphäre vorgestellt und historisch hergeleitet. Sie verdankt ihre Existenz einem kollektiven Entfremdungsprozess des Citoyens dem Gemeinwesen gegenüber. Dabei wird festgestellt, dass populäre Diagnosen über eine unterentwickelte Zivilgesellschaft in Ostdeutschland, verursacht durch die DDR-Vergangenheit, nicht aufrechtzuerhalten sind. Abstract: The East German Citoyen. Notes on Deep Structures of Democracy Development in Marzahn Hellersdorf. Generations, Experiences, Frontiers of Perception This article is intended as an interim research report as well as a critique on previous explanatory approaches to the democracy development in East Germany since 1990. Based on qualitative, narrative-biographical interviews with citizens of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, a critique on traditional concepts of political sciences such as private and public, social and political is developed. Applied to this East Berlin district, it is shown that epistemically in West Germany ‘successful’ notions of civil society, political activism and the Political are not suitable enough for a deeper understanding of East German terms. Moreover, based on the qualitative data, the hypothesis of the emergence of an East German public, an Eastern-sphere, is presented and derived historically. It owes its existence to a collective process of alienation between the citoyen and the polity of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is claimed that currently popular notions of an alleged backward civil society in East Germany, caused by the GDR past, cannot be sustained.

Zusammenfassung Der Artikel beschreibt den angedachten Prozess der sozialräumlichen Demokratieentwicklung im Berliner Bezirk Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Im Rahmen eines BMBF-Projekts an der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin wird – angelehnt an das Konzept des Community Organizing – eine intermediäre Instanz geschaffen. Diese soll zwischen Bürger_innen und Politik/Verwaltung vermitteln und eine stärkere partizipative politische Einbindung der Bürger_innen im Bezirk ermöglichen. Die lokalen Besonderheiten als ostdeutsche und in Teilen benachteiligte Kommune finden hier ebenfalls Berücksichtigung. Ziel des Prozesses ist letztlich ein inklusives Gemeinwesen als Antwort auf demokratieferne Auffassungen und Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit; wobei die Bürger_innen selbstbestimmt und selbstwirksam ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse artikulieren und einfordern können. Abstract: Social and Spacial Aspects of Democracy Development in the District Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Towards an Inclusive Community? The article describes the process necessary to implement the social and spacial aspects of democracy development in the district Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin, a project funded by the BMBF and realized by the Alice-Salomon university of applied sciences. Inspired by the concept of “community organizing”, we realize an intermediary entity designed to mediate between citizens and politics/administration. Thereby we want to encourage political participation especially considering the local characteristics of a disadvantaged community in Eastern Germany. The aim of the process is to develop an inclusive community as an answer to anti-democratic attitudes and group-specific discrimination. The process is supposed to give citizens an efficient possibility to articulate their needs voluntarily and autonomous.

Zusammenfassung Der Artikel präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse aus dem quantitativen Teil eines Forschungsprojekts zur Haltung zur Demokratie und zur Zufriedenheit mit deren aktueller Umsetzung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sowie zur sozialen und politischen Beteiligung der Bevölkerung des Berliner Stadtteils Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Die meisten der 363 Befragten befürworten das Ideal der Demokratie (76,2%), aber nur etwa ein Drittel (36,1%) sieht dieses Demokratie­ideal gut umgesetzt. Eine Typologie (vier Typen) hinsichtlich der Haltung zur Demokratie wird vorgestellt. Abstract: Selected Findings of the Quantitative Part of a Research Project Regarding Attitudes Towards Democracy The article presents selected findings of the quantitative part of a research project regarding attitudes towards democracy, current implementation of democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany and social and political participation of the inhabitants of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, a district of Berlin. Most of the 363 surveyed people endorse the ideal of democracy (76,2%) but only one third 36,1% agree that it is well implemented. A typology (four types) of attitudes towards democracy will be explained.

Purpose A whole series of food scandals indicates that misdirected incentives continue to be a source of food risks. Lacking market transparency and the opportunistic use of seemingly profitable opportunities to break the rules cause negative externalities and failure of markets. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of mandatory transparency schemes on food businesses’ behavioural drivers and thus on compliance. Design/methodology/approach The authors use an adopted analytical framework developed by Hirschauer et al. (2012) as the theoretical background. The authors provide an empirical analysis of the effects of a disclosure system on businesses’ behavioural drivers in three urban parts of the German capital Berlin. The authors conducted a pen-and-paper survey among food businesses to collect data and used a generalized ordered logit regression model to analyse them. Findings The results show that the higher the businesses assess the possible negative effects of a negative smiley on sales, the higher the probability of compliance. Considering the immaterial behavioural drivers (protective factors) the authors find the statistical significant influence of a feeling of embarrassment in case of disclosure and the feeling of a fair evaluation on compliance. Thus, the study supports the expectation that disclosure policies affect behavioural drivers and have the potential to steer food businesses’ compliance. Practical implications The study supports the expectation that hygiene controls’ disclosure positively affects food businesses’ compliance. These findings should be taken into consideration in the ongoing discussion about disclosure. Nowadays, there is no mandatory transparency in Germany due to a strong opposition from businesses and their lobbying groups. Originality/value The authors conducted a pen-and-paper survey among food businesses in three urban districts of the German capital Berlin, namely, Pankow, Lichtenberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf in 2014. The food authorities in these districts were the only ones in Germany that had introduced and run a mandatory disclosure system (smiley-system) for food businesses. The results of the inspections were published on the authorities’ homepages in the internet, and were displayed in businesses. Thus the data mirror the unique experiences of the only German food businesses that participated in a mandatory transparency scheme.

On April 11, 1977, near a small village northeast of Berlin called Marzahn, construction teams from the Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) Tiefbau Berlin began digging the first foundation for what became the largest construction site and the largest prefabricated housing settlement (Plattenbausiedlung) not just in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), but in all of Europe (see Figure 1). An army of more than 6,000 workers arrived, and over the course of the next decade, built more than 200,000 apartments in Marzahn and the surrounding areas of the northeast edge of Berlin. These came to house more than 400,000 residents, who moved there from the older neighborhoods of East Berlin and from all over the GDR.

Ethnic enclaves in West Berlin and now, East Berlin are located in denigrated areas of high unemployment, poverty, and devalued or high-rise public housing, but they are also places where immigrants are slowly integrating into the larger city and German society. Despite different national origins and different conditions and periods in which they arrived, socially excluded Vietnamese, Russian, and other migrants to East Berlin are following local incorporation paths surprisingly similar to those of the Turks in West Berlin. In both Kreuzberg and Marzahn, the rise of multicultural forms and events, economic niches, and ethnic associations make local life attractive and ultimately, contribute to immigrant incorporation and neighborhood revitalization.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies.
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The point of departure in this dissertation is the situation in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf region of East-Berlin, where, 17 years after the political turnaround, only three new Christian communities have established themselves., However it is, known that there have been many attempts at church planting during these years. In this district there seems to be a high percentage of people who are resistant towards western theology or ecclesiology respectively. That is why the focus of the dissertation is on those people who live in an a-religious context surrounded by post-socialistic influences. Social scientific approaches and methods have been integrated and utilised as part of this practical-theological research project. The benefit of this was the developing of aspects of a practical-theological perspective that could be used for a specific ecclesiology with special reference to church planting. Ultimately, three hypotheses have been developed. The implications of these hypotheses could serve as essential material for prospective church planting efforts in the area.
Practical Theology
M. Th. Missiology