ABOUT THE BÖLL FOUNDATION

The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in the "Hackesche Höfe" in the heart of Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. It was founded in 1997 by uniting the three foundations Buntstift (Göttingen), Frauen-Anstiftung (Hamburg), and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Cologne).

The Foundation's primary objective is to support political education both within Germany and abroad, thus promoting democratic involvement, socio-political activism, and cross-cultural understanding.
The Foundation also provides support for art and culture, science and research, and developmental co-operation. Its activities are guided by the fundamental political values of ecology, democracy, solidarity, and non-violence.

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    WHO WAS HEINRICH BÖLL?

Heinrich Böll is one of the most important and best-known writers of the Federal Republic of Germany. "Bound by the times and my contemporaries, to what my generation has lived through, experienced, seen, and heard," as he himself wrote, he was the critical chronicler of Germany’s history at mid-century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels and short stories in 1972. [More...]