Choiceless & voiceless?

Interview about our project

DIE STIMME DER STIMMLOSEN

Interview von Michael Metzger mit Kristin Dethloff und Anna Siitam im politikorange-Themenmagazin zur Bundestagswahl 2009.

Interview: Die Stimme der Stimmlosen | Foto von Jonas Fischer

Der Titel eures Projektes ist „Choiceless – voiceless“. Haben Nichtwähler keine Stimme?

Kristin: Keine gemeinsame jedenfalls. In der gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung werden Nichtwähler dämonisiert. Angeblich sind sie politisch desinteressiert, ihnen ist alles egal, sie gefährden die Demokratie. Dabei sind Nichtwähler keineswegs alle gleich: Es gibt zahlreiche unterschiedliche Gründe, seine Stimme bei einer Wahl zu verweigern.

Nämlich?

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As groovy as it gets

We have a song!

Thanks a quadrupillion, guys!

Berlin Berlin :)

Today our project seminar about, for and with voters & non-voters begins in Berlin, Germany.

For a week, we will look into voting and democracy, elections and abstentions, ideas and questions. We will listen to and discuss with scientists such as Dieter Roth, who founded one of the leading political polling groups of Germany, and Dorothée de Nève, author of the book «Nonvoters — a danger for democracy?»

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Add your voice

A seminar about, for and with voters & non-voters in Berlin, Germany

„Why vote when politicians do whatever they want in any case?“
„Will politicians, without our vote, not always do whatever they want?“

You couldn’t agree – or disagree – more?

Then our seminar might be for you :)

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Choiceless? Voiceless?

The elections for the Parliament of the European Union were just held. Many projects were trying to encourage young people to use their right to choose, and everyone has been shaking their heads about the lowest-ever voter turnout.

And yet, hardly anone really talks about—or with—the people who do not vote, except when someone is needed to put blame and shame on.

They are mystified and condemned, then thrust aside until the next election.

But we want to look into the corners that many other people ignore.

Who are the non-voting young people?

Photo von Sebastian Wieschowski / jugendfotos.de

In most European countries, non-voters tend to be concentrated in specific demographic and socioeconomic groups, especially the young and the poor. What is missing, in their opinion, to make voting attractive – or actually even possible?

We want to risk an attempt to see behind the curtain of non-voting and non-voters.

Looking at the theme of non-voting and non-voters is especially intriguing in connection with young people – which is why we have chosen this perspective as our entry-point in this project.

More information will be available soon – Thanks for coming back!