Abitur NRW Englisch 2023 · GK · Haupttermin

Klausurteil A

Rachel May

The Audit

The story takes place in North America at some point in the near future.

“Dad! You’ve got to come. We got the Audit.” The boy’s normally high voice took on a

husky rasp as he pronounced the last words.

“An audit? You make it sound like a fatal illness,” Bill responded to his anxiety-prone son

with a practiced calmness, as David grabbed his hand and started pulling him towards the

5 house. “Relax, Davey. It’s not that big a deal. Our taxes are all in order.” […]

As soon as they entered the house, Bill felt David’s hand tighten and his shoulders stiffen.

Bill’s wife Laurie was standing at the computer in the family room, biting her lip, while

their daughter Jess looked on with an inscrutable expression.

“C’mon, everybody. It’s just an audit, right?” Bill tried the soothing tone again. “What’s

10 the big deal? We’re as likely to get taxes back as to owe them.”

“It’s not a tax audit, honey. It’s the new one.” Laurie’s voice had a touch of the same husky

terror he had heard from David.

“Yeah, Dad. You know, the GCA?” Jess added, with the practiced superiority of a 14-year-old.

“GCA?”

15 David’s voice rose to a squeak. “I heard they take your house and car and everything!”

Laurie came over to give David a hug while Bill sat down, bewildered, at the computer.

“Now I’m sure it’s not that bad. Let me take a look.” He was embarrassed to admit he hadn’t

heard of the GCA, when even his fifth-grader seemed to know all about it.

Big yellow letters on a dark blue screen spelled out GLOBAL CLIMATE AUDIT. Every effort

20 to surf away from the page resulted in the same message: “You have been selected for the

GCA. Internet service will be restored after you complete your climate footprint calculation.”

“You have to do it, Dad. It’s international law.” Jess said. […]

It didn’t give Bill much confidence as he stared at the Climate Footprint Calculator on the

screen. It was essentially a detailed inventory of their daily habits. The GCA already had a

25 surprising wealth of information about them: the amount of gas they bought each week for

the SUV, how many BTUs it took to heat and cool their six-bedroom house, how much hot

water they used, even what percentage of strawberries they bought came from Chile. At one

point he called his credit card company to complain that this outfit had hacked into his records.

“No worries, sir. That’s the GCA. They have treaty rights to that information. It will not be

30 used for any purpose other than calculating your carbon overdraft.”

Overdraft. That sounded ominous. Bill finished the online questionnaire. Shortly after he hit

SEND, a graphic appeared showing three round pictures of Earth and an additional wedge

with most of the Americas. The caption read:

“Your carbon footprint is 3.4 times the acceptable global mean. If everyone generated

35 your level of greenhouse gases, 3.4 planet Earths would be required to accommodate the

emissions. The terms of the Global Climate Accord require that you reduce your

footprint as follows…”

They were giving the family a year to get the number down below three, and two more years

to get it to one, on penalty of severe fines. Bill had two weeks to present the GCA with a

40 plan. […]

Bill didn’t think he could blithely hit “ACCEPT” the way he did whenever iTunes updated

its terms of service. This GCA was deep in his credit card data and might have the power to

hold him to it. He called Laurie’s sister, who was a lawyer.

“Sorry, Bill. The GCA is the real deal. The US and every other nation on Earth signed an

45 agreement this year to enforce its terms. I can’t believe you hadn’t heard about it. World

leaders have been trying to pass a global climate policy framework for decades, but the best

the cowards could do was shift the burden from governments onto individuals. People all

around the world are getting audited, and credit card companies and utilities are obligated

to furnish quantitative information about their consumption patterns.”

50 “Tell me about it. It’s as if they had informers everywhere—our gas tank, our fridge, probably

my underwear drawer. So you’re saying I should accept the terms?”

“I don’t think you have a choice. There’s some fine print you can read at the website that

may give you a way around their requirements, but they tried to make this treaty have teeth.”

So Bill went ahead and nervously clicked the fateful button. It was a relief to see his browser

55 pop up as if nothing had happened. Except that in one corner there hovered a blue box with

yellow letters, which periodically flashed a message, saying “You have 14 days remaining

to complete your climate action plan.”

Annotations:

26 · BTU · British Thermal Unit, used as a unit of energy in the US and Canada

34 · mean · here: average

41 · blithely · without any worries

41 · iTunes · free software program developed by Apple which acts as a media player

53 · to have teeth · ( informal) – to be powerful and effective

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

1. Outline the idea and purpose of the global Climate Audit as well as how it is carried out.

(Comprehension) [12 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Rachel May

The Audit

The story takes place in North America at some point in the near future.

“Dad! You’ve got to come. We got the Audit.” The boy’s normally high voice took on a

husky rasp as he pronounced the last words.

“An audit? You make it sound like a fatal illness,” Bill responded to his anxiety-prone son

with a practiced calmness, as David grabbed his hand and started pulling him towards the

5 house. “Relax, Davey. It’s not that big a deal. Our taxes are all in order.” […]

As soon as they entered the house, Bill felt David’s hand tighten and his shoulders stiffen.

Bill’s wife Laurie was standing at the computer in the family room, biting her lip, while

their daughter Jess looked on with an inscrutable expression.

“C’mon, everybody. It’s just an audit, right?” Bill tried the soothing tone again. “What’s

10 the big deal? We’re as likely to get taxes back as to owe them.”

“It’s not a tax audit, honey. It’s the new one.” Laurie’s voice had a touch of the same husky

terror he had heard from David.

“Yeah, Dad. You know, the GCA?” Jess added, with the practiced superiority of a 14-year-old.

“GCA?”

15 David’s voice rose to a squeak. “I heard they take your house and car and everything!”

Laurie came over to give David a hug while Bill sat down, bewildered, at the computer.

“Now I’m sure it’s not that bad. Let me take a look.” He was embarrassed to admit he hadn’t

heard of the GCA, when even his fifth-grader seemed to know all about it.

Big yellow letters on a dark blue screen spelled out GLOBAL CLIMATE AUDIT. Every effort

20 to surf away from the page resulted in the same message: “You have been selected for the

GCA. Internet service will be restored after you complete your climate footprint calculation.”

“You have to do it, Dad. It’s international law.” Jess said. […]

It didn’t give Bill much confidence as he stared at the Climate Footprint Calculator on the

screen. It was essentially a detailed inventory of their daily habits. The GCA already had a

25 surprising wealth of information about them: the amount of gas they bought each week for

the SUV, how many BTUs it took to heat and cool their six-bedroom house, how much hot

water they used, even what percentage of strawberries they bought came from Chile. At one

point he called his credit card company to complain that this outfit had hacked into his records.

“No worries, sir. That’s the GCA. They have treaty rights to that information. It will not be

30 used for any purpose other than calculating your carbon overdraft.”

Overdraft. That sounded ominous. Bill finished the online questionnaire. Shortly after he hit

SEND, a graphic appeared showing three round pictures of Earth and an additional wedge

with most of the Americas. The caption read:

“Your carbon footprint is 3.4 times the acceptable global mean. If everyone generated

35 your level of greenhouse gases, 3.4 planet Earths would be required to accommodate the

emissions. The terms of the Global Climate Accord require that you reduce your

footprint as follows…”

They were giving the family a year to get the number down below three, and two more years

to get it to one, on penalty of severe fines. Bill had two weeks to present the GCA with a

40 plan. […]

Bill didn’t think he could blithely hit “ACCEPT” the way he did whenever iTunes updated

its terms of service. This GCA was deep in his credit card data and might have the power to

hold him to it. He called Laurie’s sister, who was a lawyer.

“Sorry, Bill. The GCA is the real deal. The US and every other nation on Earth signed an

45 agreement this year to enforce its terms. I can’t believe you hadn’t heard about it. World

leaders have been trying to pass a global climate policy framework for decades, but the best

the cowards could do was shift the burden from governments onto individuals. People all

around the world are getting audited, and credit card companies and utilities are obligated

to furnish quantitative information about their consumption patterns.”

50 “Tell me about it. It’s as if they had informers everywhere—our gas tank, our fridge, probably

my underwear drawer. So you’re saying I should accept the terms?”

“I don’t think you have a choice. There’s some fine print you can read at the website that

may give you a way around their requirements, but they tried to make this treaty have teeth.”

So Bill went ahead and nervously clicked the fateful button. It was a relief to see his browser

55 pop up as if nothing had happened. Except that in one corner there hovered a blue box with

yellow letters, which periodically flashed a message, saying “You have 14 days remaining

to complete your climate action plan.”

Annotations:

26 · BTU · British Thermal Unit, used as a unit of energy in the US and Canada

34 · mean · here: average

41 · blithely · without any worries

41 · iTunes · free software program developed by Apple which acts as a media player

53 · to have teeth · ( informal) – to be powerful and effective

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

2. Analyze the way Bill's state of mind is conveyed to the reader. Concentrate on point of view and the use of language.

(Analysis) [16 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Rachel May

The Audit

The story takes place in North America at some point in the near future.

“Dad! You’ve got to come. We got the Audit.” The boy’s normally high voice took on a

husky rasp as he pronounced the last words.

“An audit? You make it sound like a fatal illness,” Bill responded to his anxiety-prone son

with a practiced calmness, as David grabbed his hand and started pulling him towards the

5 house. “Relax, Davey. It’s not that big a deal. Our taxes are all in order.” […]

As soon as they entered the house, Bill felt David’s hand tighten and his shoulders stiffen.

Bill’s wife Laurie was standing at the computer in the family room, biting her lip, while

their daughter Jess looked on with an inscrutable expression.

“C’mon, everybody. It’s just an audit, right?” Bill tried the soothing tone again. “What’s

10 the big deal? We’re as likely to get taxes back as to owe them.”

“It’s not a tax audit, honey. It’s the new one.” Laurie’s voice had a touch of the same husky

terror he had heard from David.

“Yeah, Dad. You know, the GCA?” Jess added, with the practiced superiority of a 14-year-old.

“GCA?”

15 David’s voice rose to a squeak. “I heard they take your house and car and everything!”

Laurie came over to give David a hug while Bill sat down, bewildered, at the computer.

“Now I’m sure it’s not that bad. Let me take a look.” He was embarrassed to admit he hadn’t

heard of the GCA, when even his fifth-grader seemed to know all about it.

Big yellow letters on a dark blue screen spelled out GLOBAL CLIMATE AUDIT. Every effort

20 to surf away from the page resulted in the same message: “You have been selected for the

GCA. Internet service will be restored after you complete your climate footprint calculation.”

“You have to do it, Dad. It’s international law.” Jess said. […]

It didn’t give Bill much confidence as he stared at the Climate Footprint Calculator on the

screen. It was essentially a detailed inventory of their daily habits. The GCA already had a

25 surprising wealth of information about them: the amount of gas they bought each week for

the SUV, how many BTUs it took to heat and cool their six-bedroom house, how much hot

water they used, even what percentage of strawberries they bought came from Chile. At one

point he called his credit card company to complain that this outfit had hacked into his records.

“No worries, sir. That’s the GCA. They have treaty rights to that information. It will not be

30 used for any purpose other than calculating your carbon overdraft.”

Overdraft. That sounded ominous. Bill finished the online questionnaire. Shortly after he hit

SEND, a graphic appeared showing three round pictures of Earth and an additional wedge

with most of the Americas. The caption read:

“Your carbon footprint is 3.4 times the acceptable global mean. If everyone generated

35 your level of greenhouse gases, 3.4 planet Earths would be required to accommodate the

emissions. The terms of the Global Climate Accord require that you reduce your

footprint as follows…”

They were giving the family a year to get the number down below three, and two more years

to get it to one, on penalty of severe fines. Bill had two weeks to present the GCA with a

40 plan. […]

Bill didn’t think he could blithely hit “ACCEPT” the way he did whenever iTunes updated

its terms of service. This GCA was deep in his credit card data and might have the power to

hold him to it. He called Laurie’s sister, who was a lawyer.

“Sorry, Bill. The GCA is the real deal. The US and every other nation on Earth signed an

45 agreement this year to enforce its terms. I can’t believe you hadn’t heard about it. World

leaders have been trying to pass a global climate policy framework for decades, but the best

the cowards could do was shift the burden from governments onto individuals. People all

around the world are getting audited, and credit card companies and utilities are obligated

to furnish quantitative information about their consumption patterns.”

50 “Tell me about it. It’s as if they had informers everywhere—our gas tank, our fridge, probably

my underwear drawer. So you’re saying I should accept the terms?”

“I don’t think you have a choice. There’s some fine print you can read at the website that

may give you a way around their requirements, but they tried to make this treaty have teeth.”

So Bill went ahead and nervously clicked the fateful button. It was a relief to see his browser

55 pop up as if nothing had happened. Except that in one corner there hovered a blue box with

yellow letters, which periodically flashed a message, saying “You have 14 days remaining

to complete your climate action plan.”

Annotations:

26 · BTU · British Thermal Unit, used as a unit of energy in the US and Canada

34 · mean · here: average

41 · blithely · without any worries

41 · iTunes · free software program developed by Apple which acts as a media player

53 · to have teeth · ( informal) – to be powerful and effective

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

3.1 Considering the serious effects of the climate crisis, comment on whether a state should have the right to regulate individual lifestyles in order to promote more sustainability.

(Evaluation: comment) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Rachel May

The Audit

The story takes place in North America at some point in the near future.

“Dad! You’ve got to come. We got the Audit.” The boy’s normally high voice took on a

husky rasp as he pronounced the last words.

“An audit? You make it sound like a fatal illness,” Bill responded to his anxiety-prone son

with a practiced calmness, as David grabbed his hand and started pulling him towards the

5 house. “Relax, Davey. It’s not that big a deal. Our taxes are all in order.” […]

As soon as they entered the house, Bill felt David’s hand tighten and his shoulders stiffen.

Bill’s wife Laurie was standing at the computer in the family room, biting her lip, while

their daughter Jess looked on with an inscrutable expression.

“C’mon, everybody. It’s just an audit, right?” Bill tried the soothing tone again. “What’s

10 the big deal? We’re as likely to get taxes back as to owe them.”

“It’s not a tax audit, honey. It’s the new one.” Laurie’s voice had a touch of the same husky

terror he had heard from David.

“Yeah, Dad. You know, the GCA?” Jess added, with the practiced superiority of a 14-year-old.

“GCA?”

15 David’s voice rose to a squeak. “I heard they take your house and car and everything!”

Laurie came over to give David a hug while Bill sat down, bewildered, at the computer.

“Now I’m sure it’s not that bad. Let me take a look.” He was embarrassed to admit he hadn’t

heard of the GCA, when even his fifth-grader seemed to know all about it.

Big yellow letters on a dark blue screen spelled out GLOBAL CLIMATE AUDIT. Every effort

20 to surf away from the page resulted in the same message: “You have been selected for the

GCA. Internet service will be restored after you complete your climate footprint calculation.”

“You have to do it, Dad. It’s international law.” Jess said. […]

It didn’t give Bill much confidence as he stared at the Climate Footprint Calculator on the

screen. It was essentially a detailed inventory of their daily habits. The GCA already had a

25 surprising wealth of information about them: the amount of gas they bought each week for

the SUV, how many BTUs it took to heat and cool their six-bedroom house, how much hot

water they used, even what percentage of strawberries they bought came from Chile. At one

point he called his credit card company to complain that this outfit had hacked into his records.

“No worries, sir. That’s the GCA. They have treaty rights to that information. It will not be

30 used for any purpose other than calculating your carbon overdraft.”

Overdraft. That sounded ominous. Bill finished the online questionnaire. Shortly after he hit

SEND, a graphic appeared showing three round pictures of Earth and an additional wedge

with most of the Americas. The caption read:

“Your carbon footprint is 3.4 times the acceptable global mean. If everyone generated

35 your level of greenhouse gases, 3.4 planet Earths would be required to accommodate the

emissions. The terms of the Global Climate Accord require that you reduce your

footprint as follows…”

They were giving the family a year to get the number down below three, and two more years

to get it to one, on penalty of severe fines. Bill had two weeks to present the GCA with a

40 plan. […]

Bill didn’t think he could blithely hit “ACCEPT” the way he did whenever iTunes updated

its terms of service. This GCA was deep in his credit card data and might have the power to

hold him to it. He called Laurie’s sister, who was a lawyer.

“Sorry, Bill. The GCA is the real deal. The US and every other nation on Earth signed an

45 agreement this year to enforce its terms. I can’t believe you hadn’t heard about it. World

leaders have been trying to pass a global climate policy framework for decades, but the best

the cowards could do was shift the burden from governments onto individuals. People all

around the world are getting audited, and credit card companies and utilities are obligated

to furnish quantitative information about their consumption patterns.”

50 “Tell me about it. It’s as if they had informers everywhere—our gas tank, our fridge, probably

my underwear drawer. So you’re saying I should accept the terms?”

“I don’t think you have a choice. There’s some fine print you can read at the website that

may give you a way around their requirements, but they tried to make this treaty have teeth.”

So Bill went ahead and nervously clicked the fateful button. It was a relief to see his browser

55 pop up as if nothing had happened. Except that in one corner there hovered a blue box with

yellow letters, which periodically flashed a message, saying “You have 14 days remaining

to complete your climate action plan.”

Annotations:

26 · BTU · British Thermal Unit, used as a unit of energy in the US and Canada

34 · mean · here: average

41 · blithely · without any worries

41 · iTunes · free software program developed by Apple which acts as a media player

53 · to have teeth · ( informal) – to be powerful and effective

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

3.2 Once he has filled in the questionnaire, Bill goes out for a walk to think about where he stands. As he walks, he considers the audit and what it could mean for him and his family. Write his interior monologue.

(Evaluation: re-creation of text) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil B: Sprachmittlung isoliert

Your school participates in an international project that encourages students to engage in scientific research. All participants are expected to present one example of a competition for young scientific talent.

Write an article for the project's website in which you outline how "Jugend forscht" has developed and what goals it pursues.

[18 Punkte]

Source text (German, for Klausurteil A, included for context): Klausurteil A

Rachel May

The Audit

The story takes place in North America at some point in the near future.

“Dad! You’ve got to come. We got the Audit.” The boy’s normally high voice took on a

husky rasp as he pronounced the last words.

“An audit? You make it sound like a fatal illness,” Bill responded to his anxiety-prone son

with a practiced calmness, as David grabbed his hand and started pulling him towards the

5 house. “Relax, Davey. It’s not that big a deal. Our taxes are all in order.” […]

As soon as they entered the house, Bill felt David’s hand tighten and his shoulders stiffen.

Bill’s wife Laurie was standing at the computer in the family room, biting her lip, while

their daughter Jess looked on with an inscrutable expression.

“C’mon, everybody. It’s just an audit, right?” Bill tried the soothing tone again. “What’s

10 the big deal? We’re as likely to get taxes back as to owe them.”

“It’s not a tax audit, honey. It’s the new one.” Laurie’s voice had a touch of the same husky

terror he had heard from David.

“Yeah, Dad. You know, the GCA?” Jess added, with the practiced superiority of a 14-year-old.

“GCA?”

15 David’s voice rose to a squeak. “I heard they take your house and car and everything!”

Laurie came over to give David a hug while Bill sat down, bewildered, at the computer.

“Now I’m sure it’s not that bad. Let me take a look.” He was embarrassed to admit he hadn’t

heard of the GCA, when even his fifth-grader seemed to know all about it.

Big yellow letters on a dark blue screen spelled out GLOBAL CLIMATE AUDIT. Every effort

20 to surf away from the page resulted in the same message: “You have been selected for the

GCA. Internet service will be restored after you complete your climate footprint calculation.”

“You have to do it, Dad. It’s international law.” Jess said. […]

It didn’t give Bill much confidence as he stared at the Climate Footprint Calculator on the

screen. It was essentially a detailed inventory of their daily habits. The GCA already had a

25 surprising wealth of information about them: the amount of gas they bought each week for

the SUV, how many BTUs it took to heat and cool their six-bedroom house, how much hot

water they used, even what percentage of strawberries they bought came from Chile. At one

point he called his credit card company to complain that this outfit had hacked into his records.

“No worries, sir. That’s the GCA. They have treaty rights to that information. It will not be

30 used for any purpose other than calculating your carbon overdraft.”

Overdraft. That sounded ominous. Bill finished the online questionnaire. Shortly after he hit

SEND, a graphic appeared showing three round pictures of Earth and an additional wedge

with most of the Americas. The caption read:

“Your carbon footprint is 3.4 times the acceptable global mean. If everyone generated

35 your level of greenhouse gases, 3.4 planet Earths would be required to accommodate the

emissions. The terms of the Global Climate Accord require that you reduce your

footprint as follows…”

They were giving the family a year to get the number down below three, and two more years

to get it to one, on penalty of severe fines. Bill had two weeks to present the GCA with a

40 plan. […]

Bill didn’t think he could blithely hit “ACCEPT” the way he did whenever iTunes updated

its terms of service. This GCA was deep in his credit card data and might have the power to

hold him to it. He called Laurie’s sister, who was a lawyer.

“Sorry, Bill. The GCA is the real deal. The US and every other nation on Earth signed an

45 agreement this year to enforce its terms. I can’t believe you hadn’t heard about it. World

leaders have been trying to pass a global climate policy framework for decades, but the best

the cowards could do was shift the burden from governments onto individuals. People all

around the world are getting audited, and credit card companies and utilities are obligated

to furnish quantitative information about their consumption patterns.”

50 “Tell me about it. It’s as if they had informers everywhere—our gas tank, our fridge, probably

my underwear drawer. So you’re saying I should accept the terms?”

“I don’t think you have a choice. There’s some fine print you can read at the website that

may give you a way around their requirements, but they tried to make this treaty have teeth.”

So Bill went ahead and nervously clicked the fateful button. It was a relief to see his browser

55 pop up as if nothing had happened. Except that in one corner there hovered a blue box with

yellow letters, which periodically flashed a message, saying “You have 14 days remaining

to complete your climate action plan.”

Annotations:

26 · BTU · British Thermal Unit, used as a unit of energy in the US and Canada

34 · mean · here: average

41 · blithely · without any worries

41 · iTunes · free software program developed by Apple which acts as a media player

53 · to have teeth · ( informal) – to be powerful and effective

Ernie Suggs

Remembering the Rev. Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery was a Black minister of the United Methodist Church and a leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement.

The text below is taken from an article that commemorates this “Civil Rights Icon”.

In every man’s life, there is a day of destiny.

Joseph Echols Lowery’s came on a bright summer day in 1933, when he was only 11.

As he stepped out of his father’s candy store in Huntsville, Alabama, a white police officer

walked up.

5 “He hit me in the belly and said, ‘Get back, (N-word). Don’t you see a white man coming

in?’” the Rev. Lowery recalled in a 2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview. “I went

home and looked for my father’s pearl-handled.32. I got it and was gonna look for that cop.”

But as he got to the porch, his father, LeRoy Lowery, appeared and asked why he was crying.

His father took the gun and gave him a lecture.

10 “I had never seen my father at home during the day, except on Sundays,” Lowery said.

“I don’t know why he came home that day. But I am glad he did.”

But for that, Lowery said, he probably would have been beaten, jailed or lynched that

afternoon.

Certainly his life would have been different. He probably would not have become one of

15 America’s most beloved preachers and human rights activists.

He would not have helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, where he remained at the forefront of the civil rights movement for

more than half a century.

He would not have stood before a packed church at Coretta Scott King’s funeral and blasted

20 George W. Bush over the war in Iraq – as the president sat a few feet behind him.

And on a cold January day in 2009, he would not have delivered the benediction at the

inauguration of America’s first black president. Nor would that president, a few months

later, have pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Lowery’s chest while tears – this

time of joy – streamed down the elder man’s face.

25 Lowery said that fateful day in 1933 was his introduction to civil rights.

“Although,” he added, “by being born black, I can’t ever remember not being in the movement.”

Coretta King once said Lowery had “led more marches and been in the trenches more than

anyone since Martin.”

Now Lowery, too, has led his last march.

30 Lowery died Friday night in his Atlanta home with his daughters at his side.

The civil rights icon was 98.

[...]

Lowery often said he was grateful to have lived so long, considering that King died at 39.

As a young man, he survived bombings and several attempts on his life, including a vicious

1979 Ku Klux Klan attack that nearly claimed the life of his wife, Evelyn. As an older man,

35 he beat back prostate cancer.

“I can’t [retire] because Martin is gone. Ralph [Abernathy] is gone. Hosea [Williams] is

gone,” he said at a roast marking his 85th birthday in 2006. “I’m still here. God kept me

here because I have been speaking the truth. Because I stand up against war and racism.”

When asked how he was doing, he would always say, “I am just an old man, doing young

40 things. I am tired, but happy.”

[...]

In 2008, Lowery capped his civil rights career by working on the Obama campaign as a

national co-chair for voter registration. After the election, President Obama picked Lowery

to deliver the benediction at his inauguration.

Lowery did not disappoint, mixing religion, spirituals and even the blues into a speech that

45 was equally celebrated and denounced.

In his emotional opening, he recited lines from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice

and Sing,” also known as “The Negro National Anthem.” He ended by paraphrasing blues

legend Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White”.

“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new

50 beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get

back; when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can

get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery prayed. “Let all those

who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Say Amen! And Amen!”

On later being admitted into Obama’s first class of Medal of Freedom recipients, Lowery

55 said he hoped the president would build the better America for which he and King had laid

the foundation.

“I get disgusted and mad with America sometimes, and I hear some fools talk about: ‘Go

back to Africa.’ I go to Africa every year, but the last thing I do before I get on the plane is

check the ticket to make sure it is round trip,” Lowery said. “I’m coming back. This is my

60 country. Africa may be the fatherland, but America is the mother. And I am going to hug

mama and squeeze her.”

Annotations:

7 ·.32 – a specific type of handgun

16 – 17 · Southern Christian Leadership Conference – an African American civil rights organization

19 · Coretta Scott King – M.L. King’s wife

36 · Ralph Abernathy – American civil rights activist and Baptist minister

36 · Hosea Williams – American civil rights leader, activist, businessman, scientist, politician

1. Outline what the text tells us about the life of Reverend Joseph Lowery. (Comprehension) (12 Punkte)

Ernie Suggs

Remembering the Rev. Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery was a Black minister of the United Methodist Church and a leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement.

The text below is taken from an article that commemorates this “Civil Rights Icon”.

In every man’s life, there is a day of destiny.

Joseph Echols Lowery’s came on a bright summer day in 1933, when he was only 11.

As he stepped out of his father’s candy store in Huntsville, Alabama, a white police officer

walked up.

5 “He hit me in the belly and said, ‘Get back, (N-word). Don’t you see a white man coming

in?’” the Rev. Lowery recalled in a 2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview. “I went

home and looked for my father’s pearl-handled.32. I got it and was gonna look for that cop.”

But as he got to the porch, his father, LeRoy Lowery, appeared and asked why he was crying.

His father took the gun and gave him a lecture.

10 “I had never seen my father at home during the day, except on Sundays,” Lowery said.

“I don’t know why he came home that day. But I am glad he did.”

But for that, Lowery said, he probably would have been beaten, jailed or lynched that

afternoon.

Certainly his life would have been different. He probably would not have become one of

15 America’s most beloved preachers and human rights activists.

He would not have helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, where he remained at the forefront of the civil rights movement for

more than half a century.

He would not have stood before a packed church at Coretta Scott King’s funeral and blasted

20 George W. Bush over the war in Iraq – as the president sat a few feet behind him.

And on a cold January day in 2009, he would not have delivered the benediction at the

inauguration of America’s first black president. Nor would that president, a few months

later, have pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Lowery’s chest while tears – this

time of joy – streamed down the elder man’s face.

25 Lowery said that fateful day in 1933 was his introduction to civil rights.

“Although,” he added, “by being born black, I can’t ever remember not being in the movement.”

Coretta King once said Lowery had “led more marches and been in the trenches more than

anyone since Martin.”

Now Lowery, too, has led his last march.

30 Lowery died Friday night in his Atlanta home with his daughters at his side.

The civil rights icon was 98.

[...]

Lowery often said he was grateful to have lived so long, considering that King died at 39.

As a young man, he survived bombings and several attempts on his life, including a vicious

1979 Ku Klux Klan attack that nearly claimed the life of his wife, Evelyn. As an older man,

35 he beat back prostate cancer.

“I can’t [retire] because Martin is gone. Ralph [Abernathy] is gone. Hosea [Williams] is

gone,” he said at a roast marking his 85th birthday in 2006. “I’m still here. God kept me

here because I have been speaking the truth. Because I stand up against war and racism.”

When asked how he was doing, he would always say, “I am just an old man, doing young

40 things. I am tired, but happy.”

[...]

In 2008, Lowery capped his civil rights career by working on the Obama campaign as a

national co-chair for voter registration. After the election, President Obama picked Lowery

to deliver the benediction at his inauguration.

Lowery did not disappoint, mixing religion, spirituals and even the blues into a speech that

45 was equally celebrated and denounced.

In his emotional opening, he recited lines from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice

and Sing,” also known as “The Negro National Anthem.” He ended by paraphrasing blues

legend Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White”.

“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new

50 beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get

back; when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can

get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery prayed. “Let all those

who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Say Amen! And Amen!”

On later being admitted into Obama’s first class of Medal of Freedom recipients, Lowery

55 said he hoped the president would build the better America for which he and King had laid

the foundation.

“I get disgusted and mad with America sometimes, and I hear some fools talk about: ‘Go

back to Africa.’ I go to Africa every year, but the last thing I do before I get on the plane is

check the ticket to make sure it is round trip,” Lowery said. “I’m coming back. This is my

60 country. Africa may be the fatherland, but America is the mother. And I am going to hug

mama and squeeze her.”

Annotations:

7 ·.32 – a specific type of handgun

16 – 17 · Southern Christian Leadership Conference – an African American civil rights organization

19 · Coretta Scott King – M.L. King’s wife

36 · Ralph Abernathy – American civil rights activist and Baptist minister

36 · Hosea Williams – American civil rights leader, activist, businessman, scientist, politician

2. Analyze how Reverend Joseph Lowery is portrayed, concentrating on the communicative strategies and the language used. (Analysis) (16 Punkte)

Ernie Suggs

Remembering the Rev. Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery was a Black minister of the United Methodist Church and a leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement.

The text below is taken from an article that commemorates this “Civil Rights Icon”.

In every man’s life, there is a day of destiny.

Joseph Echols Lowery’s came on a bright summer day in 1933, when he was only 11.

As he stepped out of his father’s candy store in Huntsville, Alabama, a white police officer

walked up.

5 “He hit me in the belly and said, ‘Get back, (N-word). Don’t you see a white man coming

in?’” the Rev. Lowery recalled in a 2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview. “I went

home and looked for my father’s pearl-handled.32. I got it and was gonna look for that cop.”

But as he got to the porch, his father, LeRoy Lowery, appeared and asked why he was crying.

His father took the gun and gave him a lecture.

10 “I had never seen my father at home during the day, except on Sundays,” Lowery said.

“I don’t know why he came home that day. But I am glad he did.”

But for that, Lowery said, he probably would have been beaten, jailed or lynched that

afternoon.

Certainly his life would have been different. He probably would not have become one of

15 America’s most beloved preachers and human rights activists.

He would not have helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, where he remained at the forefront of the civil rights movement for

more than half a century.

He would not have stood before a packed church at Coretta Scott King’s funeral and blasted

20 George W. Bush over the war in Iraq – as the president sat a few feet behind him.

And on a cold January day in 2009, he would not have delivered the benediction at the

inauguration of America’s first black president. Nor would that president, a few months

later, have pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Lowery’s chest while tears – this

time of joy – streamed down the elder man’s face.

25 Lowery said that fateful day in 1933 was his introduction to civil rights.

“Although,” he added, “by being born black, I can’t ever remember not being in the movement.”

Coretta King once said Lowery had “led more marches and been in the trenches more than

anyone since Martin.”

Now Lowery, too, has led his last march.

30 Lowery died Friday night in his Atlanta home with his daughters at his side.

The civil rights icon was 98.

[...]

Lowery often said he was grateful to have lived so long, considering that King died at 39.

As a young man, he survived bombings and several attempts on his life, including a vicious

1979 Ku Klux Klan attack that nearly claimed the life of his wife, Evelyn. As an older man,

35 he beat back prostate cancer.

“I can’t [retire] because Martin is gone. Ralph [Abernathy] is gone. Hosea [Williams] is

gone,” he said at a roast marking his 85th birthday in 2006. “I’m still here. God kept me

here because I have been speaking the truth. Because I stand up against war and racism.”

When asked how he was doing, he would always say, “I am just an old man, doing young

40 things. I am tired, but happy.”

[...]

In 2008, Lowery capped his civil rights career by working on the Obama campaign as a

national co-chair for voter registration. After the election, President Obama picked Lowery

to deliver the benediction at his inauguration.

Lowery did not disappoint, mixing religion, spirituals and even the blues into a speech that

45 was equally celebrated and denounced.

In his emotional opening, he recited lines from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice

and Sing,” also known as “The Negro National Anthem.” He ended by paraphrasing blues

legend Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White”.

“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new

50 beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get

back; when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can

get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery prayed. “Let all those

who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Say Amen! And Amen!”

On later being admitted into Obama’s first class of Medal of Freedom recipients, Lowery

55 said he hoped the president would build the better America for which he and King had laid

the foundation.

“I get disgusted and mad with America sometimes, and I hear some fools talk about: ‘Go

back to Africa.’ I go to Africa every year, but the last thing I do before I get on the plane is

check the ticket to make sure it is round trip,” Lowery said. “I’m coming back. This is my

60 country. Africa may be the fatherland, but America is the mother. And I am going to hug

mama and squeeze her.”

Annotations:

7 ·.32 – a specific type of handgun

16 – 17 · Southern Christian Leadership Conference – an African American civil rights organization

19 · Coretta Scott King – M.L. King’s wife

36 · Ralph Abernathy – American civil rights activist and Baptist minister

36 · Hosea Williams – American civil rights leader, activist, businessman, scientist, politician

3.1 Comment on how significant it is for people today to look to activists of earlier times, such as Reverend Joseph Lowery, as role models. (Evaluation: comment) (14 Punkte)

Ernie Suggs

Remembering the Rev. Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery was a Black minister of the United Methodist Church and a leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement.

The text below is taken from an article that commemorates this “Civil Rights Icon”.

In every man’s life, there is a day of destiny.

Joseph Echols Lowery’s came on a bright summer day in 1933, when he was only 11.

As he stepped out of his father’s candy store in Huntsville, Alabama, a white police officer

walked up.

5 “He hit me in the belly and said, ‘Get back, (N-word). Don’t you see a white man coming

in?’” the Rev. Lowery recalled in a 2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview. “I went

home and looked for my father’s pearl-handled.32. I got it and was gonna look for that cop.”

But as he got to the porch, his father, LeRoy Lowery, appeared and asked why he was crying.

His father took the gun and gave him a lecture.

10 “I had never seen my father at home during the day, except on Sundays,” Lowery said.

“I don’t know why he came home that day. But I am glad he did.”

But for that, Lowery said, he probably would have been beaten, jailed or lynched that

afternoon.

Certainly his life would have been different. He probably would not have become one of

15 America’s most beloved preachers and human rights activists.

He would not have helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, where he remained at the forefront of the civil rights movement for

more than half a century.

He would not have stood before a packed church at Coretta Scott King’s funeral and blasted

20 George W. Bush over the war in Iraq – as the president sat a few feet behind him.

And on a cold January day in 2009, he would not have delivered the benediction at the

inauguration of America’s first black president. Nor would that president, a few months

later, have pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Lowery’s chest while tears – this

time of joy – streamed down the elder man’s face.

25 Lowery said that fateful day in 1933 was his introduction to civil rights.

“Although,” he added, “by being born black, I can’t ever remember not being in the movement.”

Coretta King once said Lowery had “led more marches and been in the trenches more than

anyone since Martin.”

Now Lowery, too, has led his last march.

30 Lowery died Friday night in his Atlanta home with his daughters at his side.

The civil rights icon was 98.

[...]

Lowery often said he was grateful to have lived so long, considering that King died at 39.

As a young man, he survived bombings and several attempts on his life, including a vicious

1979 Ku Klux Klan attack that nearly claimed the life of his wife, Evelyn. As an older man,

35 he beat back prostate cancer.

“I can’t [retire] because Martin is gone. Ralph [Abernathy] is gone. Hosea [Williams] is

gone,” he said at a roast marking his 85th birthday in 2006. “I’m still here. God kept me

here because I have been speaking the truth. Because I stand up against war and racism.”

When asked how he was doing, he would always say, “I am just an old man, doing young

40 things. I am tired, but happy.”

[...]

In 2008, Lowery capped his civil rights career by working on the Obama campaign as a

national co-chair for voter registration. After the election, President Obama picked Lowery

to deliver the benediction at his inauguration.

Lowery did not disappoint, mixing religion, spirituals and even the blues into a speech that

45 was equally celebrated and denounced.

In his emotional opening, he recited lines from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice

and Sing,” also known as “The Negro National Anthem.” He ended by paraphrasing blues

legend Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White”.

“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new

50 beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get

back; when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can

get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery prayed. “Let all those

who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Say Amen! And Amen!”

On later being admitted into Obama’s first class of Medal of Freedom recipients, Lowery

55 said he hoped the president would build the better America for which he and King had laid

the foundation.

“I get disgusted and mad with America sometimes, and I hear some fools talk about: ‘Go

back to Africa.’ I go to Africa every year, but the last thing I do before I get on the plane is

check the ticket to make sure it is round trip,” Lowery said. “I’m coming back. This is my

60 country. Africa may be the fatherland, but America is the mother. And I am going to hug

mama and squeeze her.”

Annotations:

7 ·.32 – a specific type of handgun

16 – 17 · Southern Christian Leadership Conference – an African American civil rights organization

19 · Coretta Scott King – M.L. King’s wife

36 · Ralph Abernathy – American civil rights activist and Baptist minister

36 · Hosea Williams – American civil rights leader, activist, businessman, scientist, politician

3.2 An international youth conference on living in a society free from discrimination has invited you to take part. Write an article for the conference website in which you assess various ways of tackling discrimination in everyday life. (Evaluation: re-creation of text) (14 Punkte)

Ernie Suggs

Remembering the Rev. Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery was a Black minister of the United Methodist Church and a leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement.

The text below is taken from an article that commemorates this “Civil Rights Icon”.

In every man’s life, there is a day of destiny.

Joseph Echols Lowery’s came on a bright summer day in 1933, when he was only 11.

As he stepped out of his father’s candy store in Huntsville, Alabama, a white police officer

walked up.

5 “He hit me in the belly and said, ‘Get back, (N-word). Don’t you see a white man coming

in?’” the Rev. Lowery recalled in a 2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview. “I went

home and looked for my father’s pearl-handled.32. I got it and was gonna look for that cop.”

But as he got to the porch, his father, LeRoy Lowery, appeared and asked why he was crying.

His father took the gun and gave him a lecture.

10 “I had never seen my father at home during the day, except on Sundays,” Lowery said.

“I don’t know why he came home that day. But I am glad he did.”

But for that, Lowery said, he probably would have been beaten, jailed or lynched that

afternoon.

Certainly his life would have been different. He probably would not have become one of

15 America’s most beloved preachers and human rights activists.

He would not have helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, where he remained at the forefront of the civil rights movement for

more than half a century.

He would not have stood before a packed church at Coretta Scott King’s funeral and blasted

20 George W. Bush over the war in Iraq – as the president sat a few feet behind him.

And on a cold January day in 2009, he would not have delivered the benediction at the

inauguration of America’s first black president. Nor would that president, a few months

later, have pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Lowery’s chest while tears – this

time of joy – streamed down the elder man’s face.

25 Lowery said that fateful day in 1933 was his introduction to civil rights.

“Although,” he added, “by being born black, I can’t ever remember not being in the movement.”

Coretta King once said Lowery had “led more marches and been in the trenches more than

anyone since Martin.”

Now Lowery, too, has led his last march.

30 Lowery died Friday night in his Atlanta home with his daughters at his side.

The civil rights icon was 98.

[...]

Lowery often said he was grateful to have lived so long, considering that King died at 39.

As a young man, he survived bombings and several attempts on his life, including a vicious

1979 Ku Klux Klan attack that nearly claimed the life of his wife, Evelyn. As an older man,

35 he beat back prostate cancer.

“I can’t [retire] because Martin is gone. Ralph [Abernathy] is gone. Hosea [Williams] is

gone,” he said at a roast marking his 85th birthday in 2006. “I’m still here. God kept me

here because I have been speaking the truth. Because I stand up against war and racism.”

When asked how he was doing, he would always say, “I am just an old man, doing young

40 things. I am tired, but happy.”

[...]

In 2008, Lowery capped his civil rights career by working on the Obama campaign as a

national co-chair for voter registration. After the election, President Obama picked Lowery

to deliver the benediction at his inauguration.

Lowery did not disappoint, mixing religion, spirituals and even the blues into a speech that

45 was equally celebrated and denounced.

In his emotional opening, he recited lines from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice

and Sing,” also known as “The Negro National Anthem.” He ended by paraphrasing blues

legend Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White”.

“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new

50 beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get

back; when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can

get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery prayed. “Let all those

who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Say Amen! And Amen!”

On later being admitted into Obama’s first class of Medal of Freedom recipients, Lowery

55 said he hoped the president would build the better America for which he and King had laid

the foundation.

“I get disgusted and mad with America sometimes, and I hear some fools talk about: ‘Go

back to Africa.’ I go to Africa every year, but the last thing I do before I get on the plane is

check the ticket to make sure it is round trip,” Lowery said. “I’m coming back. This is my

60 country. Africa may be the fatherland, but America is the mother. And I am going to hug

mama and squeeze her.”

Annotations:

7 ·.32 – a specific type of handgun

16 – 17 · Southern Christian Leadership Conference – an African American civil rights organization

19 · Coretta Scott King – M.L. King’s wife

36 · Ralph Abernathy – American civil rights activist and Baptist minister

36 · Hosea Williams – American civil rights leader, activist, businessman, scientist, politician

Klausurteil B: Sprachmittlung isoliert

4. A friend of yours from the USA is participating in a school project called Fighting Antisemitism and wants to learn about initiatives from Germany. While researching, you found the article by Karoline Kipper.

Using her article, write an email to your friend in which you present the Walther-Bensemann cup and its aims. (Mediation) (18 Punkte)

Karoline Kipper: „Ich will, dass die Jugendlichen wissen, was damals passiert ist“

„Ich bin der Gutaussehende“, erklärt ein älterer Herr und deutet auf ein 74 Jahre altes Mannschaftsfoto. Wer Ernst Grube das erste Mal ansieht, dem wird sein schneeweißer Schnurrbart auffallen, der sich jetzt, ob seines eigenen Scherzes, zu einem Lächeln nach oben zieht. Vor ihm sitzt eine Gruppe laut lachender Jugendlicher im Halbkreis. Die Nachwuchsspieler vom FC Bayern München und von Eintracht Frankfurt hängen tief in den Stühlen, eigentlich sind sie hier in Nürnberg, um ein U17-Fußballturnier zu spielen. Dass sie an diesem Morgen mit Holocaust-Überlebenden zusammenkommen, ist diesmal neu. Dass sie bei diesen Gesprächen etwas zu lachen haben, damit hat niemand gerechnet. Aber genau das war der Gedanke hinter dem Walther-Bensemann-Turnier.

Der jüdisch-deutsche Walther Bensemann hat Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts den Fußball nach Süddeutschland gebracht. Durch die Förderung des „english sport“ hat er sich gegen nationalkonservative Turner und das chauvinistische Kaiserreich aufgelehnt. Und Fußball war für ihn mehr als ein Sport: Bensemann hat sich sein Leben lang für friedliche Völkerverständigung eingesetzt.

Das nach ihm benannte Fußballturnier gibt es seit 1937 – und dieses Jahr das erste Mal mit Workshops. Laut Veranstalter soll das Turnier in der Form nun alle zwei Jahre stattfinden. In diesem Sommer trafen vier deutsche Jugendmannschaften – 1. FC Nürnberg, Bayern München, Karlsruher SC und Eintracht Frankfurt – sowie vier internationale – Maccabi Tel Aviv, Chelsea FC, Bologna FC und KS Cracovia – in Nürnberg zusammen. Nachmittags wurde Fußball gespielt, morgens früh mit Holocaust-Überlebenden gesprochen.

Es ist Freitag, der erste Turniertag, als Ernst Grube im Seminarraum seine Armbanduhr in den Händen dreht und von seinem Leben erzählt. Von der Brutalität des Nationalsozialismus und davon, wie er als Sohn einer jüdischen Mutter von Anfang an nicht dazugehört hat, wie er als Kind Zwangsarbeit leisten musste und wie er 1945 aus dem Ghetto Theresienstadt befreit wurde. Danach fing er an Fußball zu spielen, beim TSV 1860 und bei Helios München: „So habe ich überhaupt Kontakt zu Jugendlichen in meinem Alter bekommen.“ Die Jugendlichen hier hören Grube aufmerksam zu. Aber es fällt ihnen schwer, all das Erzählte zu begreifen. […]

Ein paar Stunden später geht der fünfzehnjährige Tim Binder vom FC Bayern München über einen Kunstrasenplatz auf dem Turniergelände. Sein Leben dreht sich um Sport, bald wird sich entscheiden, ob es für ihn zum Profi reicht oder nicht. Er ist hier, um Fußball zu spielen. Aber das Gespräch mit Ernst Grube fand er spannend: „Direkt der Anfang ist mir hängengeblieben, dass ihm Fußball aus der schlechten Situation rausgeholfen hat.“ Jemand wie Ernst Grube sei lebende Geschichte, findet Tim: „Ich kann mir das gar nicht vorstellen, wie die Nazis jüdische Kinder aus den Schulen geholt haben. Das ist schwer zu begreifen und ziemlich weit weg von dem, wie wir heute leben.“

Genau deswegen reist die 89-jährige Eva Szepesi als Zeitzeugin durch ganz Deutschland, bei Tim Binder in der Schule war sie auch schon einmal. Hier in Nürnberg spricht sie als eine von sechs Holocaust-Überlebenden mit den Jugendfußballern. Sie sagt: „Ich will, dass die Jugendlichen wissen, was damals passiert ist. Wenn sie hören, dass jemand Auschwitz leugnet – dass sie von einer Überlebenden gehört haben, wie es wirklich dort war, was alles Schlimmes passiert ist […].“

Mit festem Blick und funkelnden blauen Augen erklärt Eva Szepesi, was sie erreichen will: „Wenn die Jugendlichen Ungerechtigkeit bemerken, dass sie dem entgegentreten, dass sie aufmerksam sind und nicht alles glauben, was man ihnen erzählt, sondern selbst nachdenken. Sie sind überhaupt nicht schuld daran, was damals passiert ist. Aber sie sind schuld an dem, was in Zukunft passieren könnte.“

Antisemitismus in Deutschland ist nicht Vergangenheit, sondern Gegenwart. Jüdische Kindergärten und Schulen müssen von der Polizei mit Maschinengewehren bewacht werden. Der jüdisch-deutsche Fußballverein TuS Makkabi Berlin wurde in der Vergangenheit immer wieder rassistisch motiviert angegriffen.

Beim Walther-Bensemann-Turnier sollen die Jugendlichen durch Workshops und Begegnungen sensibilisiert werden, Antisemitismus und Rassismus zu erkennen.

Anmerkungen:

U17 – hier: unter 17 Jahren

Turner – hier: Vertreter der zu dieser Zeit weitverbreiteten und gesellschaftlich anerkannten Sportart des Turnens in Deutschland

chauvinistisch – hier: Bezugnahme auf den übersteigerten Nationalismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich

Ghetto Theresienstadt – von den deutschen Besatzern im Zweiten Weltkrieg eingerichtetes Konzentrationslager in der damaligen Tschechoslowakei