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Name

Fischer, Hatto

Address

1. 1. Knesebeckstr. 17, Berlin 10627, Germany
2. 2. Romanou Melodou 2, Athens 11471, Greece

Telephone

0030210 36 17 792 or 003 0 697 45 39 333

Fax

E-mail

hattofischer(at)poieinkaiprattein.org

Nationality at birth

German

Present nationality

German

Date of birth [ Day, month, year ]

21.09.45

Place of birth

Münsing, Baveria in Germany

Sex

Male       X

Female        □

Marital status

Single              □

Married         X

Widowed         □

Divorced          □

Separated         □

Dependants

Name

Maya

Date of birth [ Day, month, year ]

07.11.88

Relationship

daughter

• Dates (from – to)

2003 –  ongoing

• Name and address of employer

Poiein kai Prattein NGO Lycabettoustr. 23, 10672 Athens , Greece

• Type of business or sector

Culture / Planning / Civil Society

• Occupation or position held

Coordinator

• Main activities and responsibilities

-        link to European level with Poiein kai Prattein being a member of the Platform for Intercultural Europe

-        follow and promote EU cultural policy and in particular developments within the institution of European Capital of Culture

-        develop and advise specific projects e.g. art and environment on Rhodes together with curator Haroula Hadjinicolaou to elaborate on environmental and development issues, see http://poieinkaiprattein.org/culture/cultural-actions-and-ecology/

-        maintain website www.poieinkaiprattein.org

-        networking and exchange of experience with other NGOs, including the ECCM Network until 2010 and currently the University Network of European Capitals of Culture while maintaining an archive about EcoC related developments

-        organize conferences , seminars and workshops  e.g. Kids' Guernica and EcoC: the cultural dimension of peace held in Gent, Feb. 2011 or 'EcoC and their contribution to a culture of Sustainability' in Berlin, May 2011

-        provide cultural orientation and give practical advice e.g. National Dance School in transition from state funded to new form of organization due to the financial crisis hitting the cultural sector in Greece

-        Youth work e.g. together with Kreisau Initiative in Poland and Germany develop youth exchange project about 'nation and identity'

-        coordinate Kids' Guernica activities in Europe and rest of the world – see www.kids-guernica.org and www.poieinkaiprattein.org/kids-guernica

-        promote artists and poets e.g. World Poetry Movement Day on Sept. 24^th or collaboration with artists Eleftheria Lialios (Paris), Asit Poddar (India), Rosa Naparstek (New York), Anjan Sen (India)

• Dates (from – to)

2005 - ongoing

• Name and address of employer

Kids' Guernica world wide movement

• Type of business or sector

Cultural actions

• Occupation or position held

Coordinator

• Main activities and responsibilities

-        initiate cultural actions becoming community wide ones to promote peace through understanding of the other

-        delegate youth to Ubud, Bali in 2005 with mural 'The War is over' for 10^th anniversary of Kids' Guernica

-        organize workshops and exhibitions in Greece e.g. Kastelli, Crete 2006, in Chios and Athens in 2007

-        initiate and promote Kids' Guernica throughout Europe and world (Ecouen, Paris, Gezoncourt in France; Gent, Belgium; Berlin; Tripoli, Lebanon; Haifa, Israel; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Wroclaw, Poland and San Sebastian, Spain 2011);

-        helped prepare the major exhibition and symposium about art education for social justice as organized by Prof. Tom Anderson at State University of Florida in Tallahassee, Jan. 2010

-        collaborate as member of the International Committee with the Kids' Guernica community coordinated by Takuya Kanada see www.kids-guernica.org

-        undertake further actions in Africa (Togo, South Africa)

• Dates (from – to)

2010 - 2011

• Name and address of employer

Sonderborg 2017 and Wroclaw 2016

• Type of business or sector

Cultural sector

• Occupation or position held

Artistic and cultural adviser

• Main activities and responsibilities

-        communicate the selection criteria for becoming a European Capital of Culture, in particular European dimension and citizens' support of the bid

-        transmit previous experiences (working on EcoC cities since 1994)

-        link to leading experts in the field e.g. Bob Palmer, Bart Verschaffel, Eric Antonis, Peter Inkei

-        collaboration with Sypros Mercouris since 1994 to create the exhibition and archive of the story of European Capitals of Culture

-        help shape the cultural agenda and especially what cultural strategy to follow through when it comes to formulating the bid

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• Dates (from – to)

2003 - 2008

• Name and address of employer

Volos Municipal Enterprise for Urban Studies, Construction and Development (DEMEKAV)
Lachana 5
383 34 Volos
Tel.  +30 24210 28251
Fax. +30 24210 28255
Web-site: www.demekav.gr

• Type of business or sector

Interreg III B CADSES Hermes project

• Occupation or position held

Advisor, Study maker

• Main activities and responsibilities

-        help prepare together with coordinator Burkhardt Kolbmüller the application and link the project to Volos

-        theoretical studies about cultural heritage and identity, and do a major study for Volos on “successful cultural planning strategies”

-        work on museums including one study for Volos about use of new media by museums

-        editor and contributor as well as key proponent of the creation of an Internet Radio within the Hermes project to exemplify promotion of cultural heritage through new media – see www.heritageradio.net

-        organize workshops and summer school in Volos to understand cultural planning and to help prepare for the future Argonaut Museum – see http://www.demekav.gr/news_summer_sch_eng.html#top

-         for more information see

http://poieinkaiprattein.org/europe/european-projects/hermes-project/

• Dates (from – to)

2000 - 2003

• Name and address of employer

CIED International Association and the Greens of the European Parliament

• Type of business or sector

Culture and new media

• Occupation or position held

Key initiator and study maker

• Main activities and responsibilities

1)      Study for the Greens in the European Parliament about the potential of an Internet Radio to further the European debate

2)      Created the intiative group Go-On to conceptualize an Internet Radio functioning on the basis of three pillars (top down info from European Parliament and Commission, bottom-up process of citizens forming the European agenda and validation through expertise and independent research with links to European projects)

The basis of this was to form CIED as an international association to link cultural innovation and economic development as based on the ten-finger research approach.

• Dates (from – to)

1999 - 2000

• Name and address of employer

Greens of the European Parliament

• Type of business or sector

Politics / Culture

• Occupation or position held

Advisor for the Greens to the Committee for Culture, Youth., Education, Sports, and Media of the European Parliament

• Main activities and responsibilities

- prepare for meetings of the Committee

-        brief MEPs on latest developments in priority areas to give shape to cultural priorities as perceived by the Greens throughout Europe

-        support NGOs of the cultural sector e.g. EFAH

-        prepare studies on key policy areas done through STOA of the European Parliament: 1) cultural diversity in the digital age (Jesse Marsh) and 2) minority languages in Europe

-        respond to incoming reports e.g. Child Sex Tourism and the case of child abuse

-        initiate discussions about cultural priorities within the Cultural Committee and report to cultural actors outside the parliament

-        follow-up on the work of the European Convention which attempted to give culture first competence at European level

-        help in negotiation of the Cultural Budget for 2012 – 16

-        prepare meetings with delegations e.g. Dr. Baader, under secretary of state who came to Brussels for signing the new educational treaty between European Union and USA

-        link up to media and film developments in Europe

-        link up to European Capitals of Culture e.g. Spyros Mercouris, Honorary President of the ECCM network and to  Bob Palmer, director of Brussels 2000

-        cooperate with Heinrich Böll foundation for hosting writers e.g. from Iran

-        host ecological artists after their presentation to the Cultural Committee

-        communicate and network with artists and people interesting in EU cultural policy and its application

-        follow the reform process of the European Commission and maintain contact to all EU institutions

• Dates (from – to)

1997 - 99

• Name and address of employer

Volos Municipal Enterprise for Urban Studies, Construction and Development (DEMEKAV)
Lachana 5
383 34 Volos
Tel.  +30 24210 28251
Fax. +30 24210 28255
Web-site: www.demekav.gr

• Type of business or sector

Interreg / Industrial heritage

ERDF Article 10 project CIED – Cultural Innovation and Economic Development with project leader Volos, Greece and partners Cardiff (UK), Galway (Ireland), Palermo (Italy) and Leipzig (Germany)

• Occupation or position held

Coordinator

• Main activities and responsibilities

- coordinate the work of the project partners

-        prepare Steering Committee meetings held very 4 months on a rotational basis

-        report to the European Commission and participate in European meetings e.g. in Thessalonik about 'innovation'

-        network with the other ERDF Article 10 projects

-        prepare the Good Practice Manual based on the Volos Reports and the Palermo Declaration and Leipzig Action Plan

-        organize conferences in Galway (1997) and Leipzig (1998)

-        organize the EU CIED conference in Leipzig, June 1999 during the German EU Presidency

• Dates (from – to)

Prior to 1997

• Name and address of employer

DIALOGOS Nea Media

• Type of business or sector

New Media / SME / European projects

• Occupation or position held

Researcher and Coordinator

• Main activities and responsibilities

- organize for the Flemish Government the Fifth Seminar “Cultural Action for Europe” held in Athens, 1994

-        research work within the LOGOS project about cultural adaptation to new media

-        help create the first Internet Cafe in Athens

-        develop and facilitate the successful application LORE as Interreg project to promote Local Observatories for Regional Development

Education and training

• Dates (from – to)

1981 - 85

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

Otto-Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Political philosophy – transformation of the state

ethnology – problems of Racism

economics, - unemployment

science of religion – dialectic of securalization

• Title of qualification awarded

Ph.D. In Political Philosophy on the topic “Articulationproblems of workers and the traditon of the German Trade Union”. First Supervisor: Johannes Agnoli; Second supervisor: Klaus Heinrich

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Cum laude

• Dates (from – to)

1972 - 75

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

Philosophical Seminar of the University of Heidelberg

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Classical philosophy of Kant and Hegel

Philosophy of Mathematics

Studies of the mind – in conjunction with research work done at the University clinic for Psychiatry with three year work with one truck driver about his manic depression

Art history – political iconography as the examination of monuments dedicated to wars

Studies of Michel Foucault: Birth of the Clinic and Order of Things

Sartre on the Imagination

• Title of qualification awarded

Writings about “the inner reflection of the social being” leading on to a Philosophy of Writing – to be published

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

• Dates (from – to)

1969 - 70

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

London School of Economics

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Philosophy of Science – after Popper the Positivism dispute with Adorno

Demography (Prof. Glass) and the art of social statistics leading on to a study about social policy and social structures

Economics: Development theory (Johnson, Friedman, Myrdal)

Statistics: Empirical study of the Rent strike in London Social Housing

Sociology: Communication as a field of averbal transmission of information

• Title of qualification awarded

-

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

• Dates (from – to)

1965-69

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Economic and Political thought

Urban Economics

Problems of Communism

International Trade

• Title of qualification awarded

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Double Honors

• Dates (from – to)

1960- 1965

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

Lisgar Collegiate

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

High School

• Title of qualification awarded

Graduated with qualification for entry into universities

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Personal skills

and competences

Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas.

Mother tongue

German

Other languages

[ Specify language ]

English

French

Greek

• Reading skills

excellent

good

basic

• Writing skills

excellent

basic

basic

• Verbal skills

excellent

basic

basic

Social skills

and competences

Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork is essential (for example culture and sports), etc.

[ Describe these competences and indicate where they were acquired. ]

Born in Germany, but immigrated at the age of twelve to Ottawa, Canada where I worked as children counselor at Camp Tawingo during the summer; also host at the Canadian Pavilion of EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada; while studying in London, created with others an intellectual group wishing to link Sigmund Freud with the philosophy of Bertrand Russell to create a new educational concept; upon returning to Germany in 1971, gathered experiences in Psychiatry (Munich 1971, Heidelberg 1972-74, and Hamburg 1976) and during further work in a neurological intensive care station in Berlin 1981-85; while teaching at Free University of Berlin took students on trips to Poland and organized for four years after declaration of Martial Plan in Poland 1981-85 medical and food transports to Poland and at home, in the own flat, a Flying University with every Friday someone giving a lecture which was followed by discussions. As member of the board of Bildungswerk for democracy and environmental protection – an institute for political education linked to the Alternative Liste in Berlin and pre-runner of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Greens – organized workshops and lectures on a variety of topics, including student movement, Peter Weiss, and East Germany as the other reality.

Once I had moved to Athens, Greece in 1988 started to organize art exhibitions at South Eastern College and later Flying University types of workshops at LaVerne, 1991-94.

Organizational skills

and competences

Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets; at work, in voluntary work (for example culture and sports) and at home, etc.

[ Describe these competences and indicate where they were acquired. ]

Coordination and organization of numerous conferences e.g. 5^th Seminar, Cultural Action for Europe for the Flemish Government (Athens 1994); Myth of the City, 15 poets and 15 planners to talk about living conditions in Cities (Crete, 1995); Workshop in Kamilari, 1996; 1^st CIED conference in Galway 1997; 2^nd CIED Conference in Leipzig, 1998; EU CIED Conference in Leipzig 1999; ECCM related  conferences: Thessaloniki 1998; Brussels 2000, Cultural Day on 5^th of May in Athens; First Symposium in Athens 2005; Exhibition and General Assembly in Patras 2006; ECCM Symposium 'Productivity of Culture' in Athens, 2007: www.productivityofculture.org

while supporting University Network of European Capitals of Culture in Sibiu 2007, Liverpool 2008, Pecs 2010 and Antwerp 2011, and organizing conference in Berlin May 2011 about culture of sustainability..

Kids' Guernica exhibitions and workshops: Kastelli, Crete 2006; Chios and Athens 2007; Paris 2008, 2009 and 2010; Berlin 2010; Gent 2011, Tübingen – Youth Festival in July 2011

Organized 2000-2003 CIED and the GO ON Internet Group in Brussels and which became www.heritageradio.net within the Interreg III B – CADSES project heritageradio networking journalists and cultural reporters to promote cultural heritage in Europe and to create the online archive for the European Capitals of Culture (2003 - ongoing)

Poiein kai Prattein as NGO of civil society is engaged in civil protection and preservation of cultural heritage.

Skilled in bringing together people and in creating synergies.

Technical skills

and competences

With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc.

[ Describe these competences and indicate where they were acquired. ]

Basic computer skills along with website management

Photo-lab

Artistic skills

and competences

Music, writing, design, etc.

[ Describe these competences and indicate where they were acquired. ]

Poet – latest publication in 'Other Voices' ed. Norb Blei

and currently working on epic poem about Hölderlin's treatment of Empedocles

Author of short stories

Philosophical and political writings

In preparing publication of 'Uncanny Valley': photos of wax figures by Eleftheria Lialios and text by Hatto Fischer

and together with artist Asit Poddar in India, text to his drawings

Other skills

and competences

Competences not mentioned above.

[ Describe these competences and indicate where they were acquired. ]

Interior design skills

Driving licence(s)

yes