paintmyblues

Saturday, 13 February 2016

Where are you from?

من اين انت؟

Where are you from?

              I come from the night without stars, a vanished sun
Where are you from?
              I come from the Living Dead, from poisoned waters
Where are you from?
              I come from the hills of despair

Where are you from?
I'm dying I am alive and I am dying
Where, tell me, where do you come from?

Below this sky
azure
between sea and mountains, rivers
here we made love.
In the clear water we bathed.
We made love under olive trees.
The earth fed us and our children.

Thousands of extinguished stars.
The moon is crying.
The Earth is burning.
Destroyed disappeared our homes and gardens.
Our olive trees tortured
as our loved ones
murdered in the dungeon.

Where are you from?

Wherever you come from . . . You are welcome!

بالنسبة لأولئك الذين
أحب
For those who I love
Für diejenigen, die ich liebe

Pit Becker paintmyblues
aka Peter بيتر

March 19, 2016

Woher kommst Du?

Woher kommst Du?

Woher kommst Du?

Ich komme aus der Nacht ohne Sterne, verschwundener Sonne

Woher kommst Du?

Ich komme von den lebenden Toten, von vergifteten Wässern

Woher kommst Du?

Ich komme aus den Hügeln der Verzweiflung

Woher kommst Du?

Ich sterbe ich bin lebendig und ich sterbe

Woher, sag mir, woher kommst Du?

Unter diesem Himmel
azurblau
zwischen Meer und Bergen, Flüssen
hier liebten wir uns.
Wir badeten im klaren Wasser.
Liebten wir uns unter Olivenbäumen.
Die Erde ernährte uns und unsere Kinder.

Tausende verloschener Sterne.
Der Mond weint.
Die Erde brennt.
Zerstört verschwunden unsere Häuser und Gärten.
Unsere Olivenbäume gefoltert
wie unsere Liebsten
in den Kerkern ermordet.

Woher kommst Du?
Wo auch immer Sie herkommen . . . Sie sind willkommen!

My burning heart
http://paintmyblues.blogspot.de/2016/08/my-burning-heart.html

updated Tuesday 17 August 2016

Woher kommst Du? 28 January 2016, Collage, 29,3 x 41,7 cms

Unter diesem Himmel, 14/15 February 2016, Collage, 14 x 17 cms

Tausende verloschener Sterne, 14/15 February 2016, Collage, 14 x 17 cms

من اين انت؟ February, 14/15, 2016, Collage, 14 x 17 cms

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Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Learning together

- updated 19 dec 2015 -

Monday, 24 august 2015

My first day with the people of the refugee camp.
I had wanted to paint inside the camp with children for free, but I was not allowed / accepted by the responsibles.
So I joined a volunteer group who works outside the camp.
Never I will forget this first day drawing and learning german with children from Syria.

Since Tuesday, 25 august, I learn with adults the german language.

in the early saturday afternoon, 29 August 2015
Drawings by kurdish children from Syria.

When I close my eyes now, I still can see you,

as you came with your Mother to my table

and we spoke the first words together ... on that beautiful day.

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Never I will forget you, Mr. K. from Damascus, Syria,
when you spoke german with a smile.
You learned good and so fast, for many hours every day.

Thursday, 10 September 2015

These panels I had created in the beginning and I used them in my lessons.

They are still in the tent for everyone to use them.

Saturday, 12 September 2015

Willkommen! Salam aleikum!
Welcome!
Learning the german language with refugees from Syria, Palestine,
Afghanistan on this saturday morning . . .

The atmosphere is wonderful.
Everyone learns with absolutely greatest engagement!

Every day more and more people of the camp join our working groups - and also our team of volunteers grows daily.

Together we learn the german language, step by step.

We are a great family,
people from Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia,
Eritrea, Ethiopia . . . and from Germany.

A chalkboard was provided. I use them for my students.

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Thursday, 29 October 2015

What we all need: patience.

It is wonderful that the people are now here in safety!

But the german bureaucracy is terrible, is inhuman.

Thats why we say it again and again, and demand it:

What is needed as basic for every support is:
Menschlichkeit = Humanity
die Menschenwürde zu achten = to respect human dignity

!!! I demand

to respect the human dignity

of every single refugee !!!

Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Learning by doing, we simulated going shopping. My small "suq".

photographed on Tuesday, 17 November 2015

What a wonderful gift I got from one of my students!

Shukran, Thank you so much, Mr. A. from Baghdad, Iraq!!!

It was on friday 13 November 2015.

Friday, 20 November 2015

Saturday, 21 November 2015

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

5 november 2015: another morning of transfer.

We met at the camp in the early morning to say good-bye.

Saturday, 28 November 2015
Greetings to the students of our group
who had left the camp and now live in different cities.

For my students I have created our own "Memory",

one way of many to learn words and phrases.

This is so wonderful to share our joy!!!

Spas chosch, Thank you so much, my wonderful kurdish students

from Aleppo and Afrin, Syria.

We shared so many hours since the 18 september. You always inspire me!

Friday 11 december 2015: No more lessons in the tents.

The people will move from the big tents into a container-village.
It is planned that the lessons and workshops for adults, mothers, children

will be continued then also in containers.

My support still goes on . . .

Dedicated to my students
in deep gratitude.

For your loyalty, for your confidence,
for your patience and understanding,
for learning together, for listening, for inspiration,
for your support in translating,
for learning me to speak a few words in Kurdish, in Arabic,
for sharing time,

for all your smiles

for your esteem and love
. . .

Shukran Spas chosch Shukria
Thank you so much !!!

You are in my heart!

Love and peace be with you!

Peter بيتر

Friday, 18 September 2015

Respektiert die Würde des Menschen!

#SOSeurope #Refugees #Fluechtlinge #Syria #Palestine #Afghanistan #Pakistan
#Ethiopia #Somalia #Eritrea #ProAsyl #Menschenwürde #Menschenrechte
#STOPracism #Deutschland

Verschiedene Verletzungen in Flüchtlingslagern und beim Transport / Abschiebung
in Deutschland, von Politik, Bürokratie und Ignoranz verursacht ... sind nicht akzeptabel!

Various abuses in refugee camps and during transport / deportation in Germany,
caused by politics, bureaucracy, ignorance ... are not acceptable!

Gießen (Hessen), Deutschland:

Foto vom Donnerstag 17. September 2015,

aufgenommen von einem jungen syrischen Mann.

Foto aus Sicherheitsgründen entfernt

Über 200 Menschen, darunter Familien mit Kindern, wurden an diesem Morgen um sieben Uhr früh

aus dem Erstaufnahme-Lager für Flüchtlinge in Bensheim (Kreis Bergstraße) nach Gießen

zurückgebracht. Dort angekommen stand ein Großteil dieser Menschen im strömenden Regen,

und das bis zu acht Stunden. Weinende Kinder, bis auf die Haut durchnässt und frierend.

Im 21.Jahrhundert. Mitten in Deutschland.

Ich spreche hier für die Flüchtlinge, ich spreche hier für viele andere Bürger, die wie ich der Meinung
sind, daß es menschenunwürdig ist, Menschen im Regen stehen zu lassen, somit ihre Gesundheit
zusätzlich noch zu gefährden, sie nicht zu informieren, was mit ihnen wann und wo geschehen wird ...
Dieses Verhalten der Verantwortlichen ist nicht zu akzeptieren!

Diese Menschen sind aus dem Terror des Kriegs geflüchtet, sie haben einen zusätzlichen Terror,
unvorstellbares Leid und auch Gewalt auf ihrer Flucht ertragen müssen,
sie sind endlich hier angekommen, sie suchen Zuflucht bei uns...
sie haben ein Recht auf diese Zuflucht,
sie haben ein Recht auf Leben und auf körperliche Unversehrtheit!

Die deutsche Politik und ihre Institutionen, einschließlich der Hilfsorganisationen,
sollten endlich unbürokratisch, flexibel und vor allem MENSCHLICH handeln!
Nicht irgendwann, sondern ab sofort !!

Giessen (Hesse), Germany:
Photo from Thursday, September 17, 2015,
by a young Syrian man.

About 200 people, including families with children, were brought back this morning

at seven o' clock early from the first recording-camp for refugees in Bensheim (Kreis Bergstraße)

to Giessen. They arrived there and the majority of these people stood in the pouring rain,

and up to eight hours. Crying children, soaked to the skin and shivering.

In the 21st century. In the middle of Germany.

I speak here for the refugees, also I say this on behalf of many other german citizens
who share my opinion, that it is inhumane to leave people out in the cold, thus endangering
their health additionally, and not to give them information what will happen with them,
when and where ...
This behavior of those responsible is unacceptable!

These people have fled from the terror of the war, they have endured an additional terror,
unimaginable suffering and violence in their escape, they have finally arrived here,
they seek refuge with us ...

they have a right to this refuge,
they have a right to life and to physical integrity.

The German policies, its institutions, including help organisations,

should finally act unbureaucratic, flexible and HUMANE, above all!

Not someday, but from now on, immediately !!

Artikel 1. Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich an Würde und Rechten geboren. Sie sind mit Vernunft und Gewissen begabt und sollen einander im Geist der Brüderlichkeit begegnen.
Artikel 3. Jeder hat das Recht auf Leben, Freiheit und Sicherheit der Person.
Artikel 14 (1) Jeder hat das Recht, in anderen Ländern vor Verfolgung Asyl zu suchen und zu genießen.
Quelle: Alle 30 Artikel der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte, Amnesty International,Sektion der Bundesrepublik Deutschlandhttps://www.amnesty.de/alle-30-artikel-der-allgemeinen-erklaerung-der-menschenrechte

Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 14 (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Source: THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

#HumanRights #DerechosHumanos #DirittiUmani #DroitsDelHomme #DireitosHumanos
#amnesty #amnistía
#Journalism #Periodismo #Politik #Politics #Gesellschaft
#Children #Family #Education #Society #DignityOfMankind