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Festival "Jamel rockt den Förster" - Rockmusic for democracy and tolerance

GFS - Gemeinsam für Frieden und Solidarität e. V.
A project from GFS - Gemeinsam für Frieden und Solidarität e. V. in Jamel, Germany
Please support the festival! Your donation will help to show moral courage and will maintain the struggle of the Lohmeyers for democracy and human rights.

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B. Lohmeyer from GFS - Gemeinsam für Frieden und Solidarität e. V. is responsible for this project
Nazis originally aimed to cultivate the village of Jamel to be a “national-socialist model village,” deliberately seeking tenants and landowners who identified with their views. Jamel rockt den Förster began in 2007 when Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer, farm owners in Jamel, refused to tolerate the intolerance. Jamel rockt den Förster exists to show resistance against the Nazi occupation with Democracy and Tolerance being its founding principles.

In 2007 it was time to rise the curtain for the first Jamel rockt den Förster-Festival at the Forsthof in Jamel. What began in 2004 as a small fine summer party for friends, relatives and colleagues developed – almost inevitably – into an ambitious cultural-political project. 

Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer – he’s a musician, she’s a writer – bought the idyllic Forsthof on the edge of the forest in 2004. Until then, the village of Jamel only had negative headlines in the press. The predominantly right-wing extremist village population had helped Jamel to become sadly famous – or rather infamous – in the past.

The Lohmeyers decided the situation couldn’t stay like this, and in 2007 they opened the gates of their Forsthof for the first time for music-enthusiasts. The Open Air Festival under the motto “Rock Music for Democracy and Tolerance” brought together bands from the regional and supra-regional music scene on the big forest stage in front of an audience from all over the country. 

The non-profit festival, organized on a voluntary basis, attracts the public to Jamel every year and documents what we stand for: “Mecklenburg remains colourful”.

Federal Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Manuela Schwesig, and the President of the Mecklenburger Landtag, Birgit Hesse, have taken over the patronage of the festival. 

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