Greeting Patronage
Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble (1942 – 2023)
President of the German Bundestag
and patron of MitMachMusik e.V.
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History
In 2015, more than 300,000 children and young people fled to Germany. According to the principle “Our children are our future”, it was logical to say: “Refugee children are also our future”, because only if we succeed in integrating these children emotionally, linguistically, culturally and intellectually into our social system can they develop into valuable participants in our society.
In April 2016, committed citizens, including professional musicians, doctors, music teachers and music educators founded the non-profit association “MitMachMusik – ein Weg zur Integration von Flüchtlingskindern e.V.”. In this initiative, musicians make music together with refugee children and young people and thus communicate in a language that everyone understands. In 2018 when we starting including German students in our group lessons, we shortened our name to „MitMachMusik—ein Weg zur Integration“. In recent years, our association has grown considerably and we now teach children and young people at 14 locations in Berlin and Potsdam.
Today, however, MitMachMusik is still first and foremost a group of musicians and music educators, often of international origin, who believe in this idea of communication through music and who use their work, their skills, their experience and their free time to pursue this goal.
