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The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Zukunftslabor

A world-class orchestra works with a comprehensive school under the same roof: In 2007, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen ventured this unusual step and set up its »Future Lab« in the Bremen-Ost Comprehensive School. Since then, musicians, teachers and students alike have been closely cooperating to put a pioneering idea into practice: overcoming social barriers through musical creativity. The jointly developed projects are intended to noticeably improve the living conditions in this disadvantaged area in the long term. The Future Lab is a meeting place for people of different social and cultural backgrounds. They all have the same target: overcome boundaries, enter into relationships and create something new from it. Music as a catalyst plays an important part in the process. To achieve a sustainable effect of the Future Lab, processes of social change with long-term effects – e. g. in the areas of individualisation, education or the world of work – are identified and actively integrated into the Lab environment. Meanwhile this work is bearing fruit: With the acclaimed project »The Melody of Life«, the members of the ensemble and the students – combining their efforts enthusiastically – fill »their« school with the sound of music.

Founded in 1980, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been based in Bremen since 1992. The orchestra is organized as a company in which the musicians are the only shareholders. Within this structure they assume the financial risks and decide on all orchestra matters democratically.

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