Heart:Beat is our new Gott:Zeit format with Johannes. A musically densely packed evening to arrive and join in. In a growing collective of young artists, we play current, covered and self-written pop songs that encourage dialogue and reflection on Christian faith.
Other dates are:
12.10. + Opening (Start 6pm) 3.11. + Theo Party (Start 7pm) 8.12. Advent Concert with Koenig & Priester (Start 7pm) 11.1.2024 (Start 7pm) 1.2. + Closing (Start 6pm)
To perceive mindfully, calmly and lovingly what I notice about myself: my body, my feelings, my mind. Relax into the perceived reality and stay with it.
The very simple and original way of meditation of the Ashram of Jesus (www.ashram-jesu.de) combines the poles of collection and openness; it leads into the depth of the person and brings one into contact with the existential ground. With increasing practice, even in the midst of the hustle and bustle of everyday life, one can dock on to this power from our depths with a brief pause, and act in life with growing freedom and closeness.
We practise in the rhythm of alternating sitting and walking; at the end of each session there is space for questions and exchange in conversation.
Wednesdays 8pm to 9.30 pm from 9 April to 9 July 2025
Location: Meditation room KHG, Berrenrather Str. 127, 50937 Cologne
Registration takes place via the university sports page here always open 3h before the event starts.
Bürozeiten: Nach Vereinbarung Languages: German, English, French
Individual spiritual assistance
Everything that happens in life can be discussed in spiritual accompaniment.
Spiritual accompaniment wants to help people to become more aware of their own concrete lives and to become more sensitive to God’s voice, to his call and his mission in everyday life.
After an initial non-binding conversation to get to know each other, further conversations can be arranged individually according to need and desire, for example every four to six weeks. Confidentiality is guaranteed.
Bürozeiten: Nach Vereinbarung Languages: German, English, French
Shooting "Street of lost hearts"
Film content:
In the near future, Coby (32), the introverted CEO of a large tech company, visits the Emo(tion) Line. In his huge laboratory hideaway, where he grows extinct plants, he spends the night with Ezra (58), a climate refugee who offers her emotional services as a mother for money on the Emo line.
‘Street of Lost Hearts’ is the postgraduate diploma film by Alexander Nowak at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). The film sheds light on the feelings and needs of people living in a world in decline. What can Ezra and Coby, whose realities of life could not be more different, give each other to fill their inner emptiness and hopelessness with something that still gives their lives meaning?
Shooting took place from 19 to 20 October 2023 in our church of St. John XXIII.
Filmteam & Cast:
Script & direction: Alexander Nowak Camera: Sarina Laudam Sound: Björn Castillano Production Design: Mayte Hellenthal, Hella Vohrmann Costume: Josefin Kwon Light: Fine Gumpert VFX: Phaidonas Gialis Producerin: Patricia Meier Final Cut: Alexander Nowak
Cast: Buenaventura de Braunstein, Simon Steinhorst, Eve Beucher, Lovely Brackmann, Lorian Dervishaj
Office hours: N/A Languages: German, French, English
Well-being Open Mic Night
Experience well-being through art at the first Well-Being Open Mic, a student-led EUniWell project. The first session will be hosted by EUniWell students from the University of Cologne on 14 October. If you are a local artist, apply now to perform in this pilot event!
The Well-Being Open Mic is organised by EUniWell students and aims to provide a recurring platform where students from EUniWell member universities and locals can showcase their creative engagement with themes related to individual, social and environmental well-being.
This unique project creates spaces where participants can express their creativity and explore themes of well-being. It’s an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, share your artistic talents, and be inspired by each other.
Pilot event in Cologne
Date: 14 October 2023 Time: 19:00 CEST – 21:00 CEST Location: KHG Kirche, Berrenrather Str. 127, 50937 Cologne.
The Well-Being Open Mic will be hosted in English and is open to all age groups and languages. Whether you are a student of the University of Cologne or a local artist, come and join this inaugural event!
We invite you to actively participate in the first Well-Being Open Mic organised by EUniWell students from the University of Cologne. Applications are now open to all students and artists living in Cologne. If you are a poet, musician, storyteller or dancer living in Cologne, apply now to perform during this first session.
Come and be a part of this unique platform, whether you join us as an artist or as a member of the audience. Let’s make this evening in Cologne memorable with a diverse range of performances and meaningful artistic expressions of well-being.
Further information
To apply, please send an email to our Student Coordinator Tanya Gautam with the following information :
Office hours: N/A Languages: German, French, English
roh.still
"roh.still" combines the reception of architecture with questions about the institution of the church: the "performative audio walk" sends the audience on the trail of brutalist architecture with radio headphones and questions the current significance of the church in the city and society. The "stage" for this is provided by the Church of St. John XXIII: radio play, feature programme and sound installation meet performance.
schubert- stegemann are theatre makers, authors and performers. In "roh.still" they take up the similarity between theatre and church: Spaces with repetitive appointments, hierarchised procedures, codes of conduct and dramaturgies: What scenic possibilities arise from the co-presence of (brutalist) architecture and human beings? Can churches be spaces of experience beyond faith? What cultural significance is left behind when fewer and fewer people use churches as religious sites? What would be the urban sociological impact of a change of use of the buildings, what could it look like? "roh.still" sees itself as a test of such a repurposing and wants to question practices of community building with the audience.
Direction/text/performance: schubert-stegemann Speaker: Nicola Schubert, Karoline Stegemann, NN, NN Costume: Theresa Mielich Music: Chiara Strickland Sound production: Felix Breuel Production Assistance: Laura Sallfellner Production management: schubert-stegemann Graphic design: Johannes Weilandt
Premiere: 6 July 2023 at 8 pm Further dates on: 7 July 2023 at 8 pm | 8 July 2023 at 6 pm and 8 pm
Guided tour as an audio walk for the TAG DES OFFENEN DENKMALS on 10th September 2023 at 2.00 pm.
Office hours: N/A Languages: German, French, English
Rising interest rates burden students
Forum University and Church criticises interest rate increase for KfW student loan
(Bonn, 23 May 2023) The Board of the Forum Hochschule und Kirche (FHoK) sharply criticises the historic high of interest rates for student loans and thus joins the criticism of the Deutsches Studierendenwerk. The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) had increased the effective interest rate of its student loan from 6.06% to 7.82% as of 1 April 2023.
As part of the Federal Government's Education Loan Programme, the KfW Education Loan disburses loans for students regardless of income. To qualify for the loan, students must be studying at a state or state-recognised higher education institution located in Germany.
"In our university community, students are also affected by the massive increase in interest rates," says Jonas Wihl, a member of the new main committee of the Forum University and Church. Those affected from his university community in Munich report that BAföG is difficult to access for many students. It is not always possible to securely finance their studies. The KfW loan is therefore often an emergency solution, especially when the financing of studies has to be secured at short notice. "If the interest rates for repayment are now raised so sharply, this will deter many from taking out a loan, and the hardship of financing studies will worsen drastically," adds Luise Gruender, university chaplain in the diocese of Speyer and FHoK board member.
"The real problem is that BAföG is accessible to an ever smaller proportion of students," Jonas Wihl states. This assessment is also shared by Matthias Anbuhl, Chairman of the Board of the German Student Union, in a press release dated 10 May. The Federal Government must make BAföG "accessible to more students as a central state instrument for financing studies" so that "finally more than the current eleven per cent of students benefit from Bafög again".
The Catholic dioceses with their university parishes and study support organisations are committed to ensuring broad access to higher education in our country with free counselling services, places in halls of residence and emergency support for international students.
Bürozeiten: Nach Vereinbarung Languages: German, English, French
200 Euro energy price flat rate
The Bundestag has passed the law of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on the one-off payment (energy price flat rate) for students as well as students of technical colleges.
The payment is intended to relieve the burden on around 3.5 million young people in training. For them in particular, the increased costs for heating, electricity and food are often a particular burden.
The International Office of the University of Cologne offers free German courses for people with a refugee background. There is the possibility to participate online and in presence.
The application deadline for submitting documents via the application portal is 15th February 2023. The courses start in April 2023. The application has to be submitted digitally to the University of Cologne under the following link.
A digital information event must still be attended before participation. The next event will take place on 27th January 2023 at 2 pm. More information and further dates can be found
Our theatre teacher Maria Mock cordially invites you to a tragicomic fairy tale based on Carlo Gozzi, with Maria as assistant director. The play takes place in the Bürgerhaus Köln Kalk. Admission is free of charge!
Content
We find ourselves in the mystical, fairytale court of Emperor Altoum. His daughter, the beautiful but marriage-averse Princess Turandot, gives each of her suitors three riddles, all of which must be solved. Whoever fails will be beheaded - and this fate has already befallen several. Now an unknown prince wants to try his luck. And? How will he fare? Will he stand up to the princess? If so, will she marry him against her will? Funny and heartbreaking, sly and dim-witted, fearful and combative are the characters of the fairy tale. The tension remains until the last breath, the audience is allowed to fever and puzzle along.
Ensemble Integral revels in Gozzi's imaginative theatre aesthetic and invites the audience to theatre as a celebration!
Events: THU19.01.2022 – 7pm30 FRI 20.01.2022 – 7pm30 SAT 21.01.2022 – 7pm30 SUN 22.01.2022 – 6pm30
A production by Ensemble Integral, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of "NEUSTART KULTUR", by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Bürgerhaus Köln Kalk.
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