Musical Wheelchairica
Decorated with the big bronze star of the sport in 2003
Wheelchairica is a rousing musical which is full of joy of living and engagement of the actors and extends the look for life situations with disabled persons. Besides, 20 actors attack themselves in her rolling chairs also "on the shovel" how everyday situations with pedestrians. Live is sung and is danced under the direction of Julia Heil. The culture and sports group Rhein Neckar inc. was born in 1993 to strengthen people with impediment activities in the leisure area and cultural area to be opened and in order the handicapped width sport. Since him the association by cooperations with medical centres, self-help groups and the occupational support work shows Heidelberg to the members new ways for leisure, professional and private life.
Fascinating entertainment from the life in the wheel chair.
Today is the KSG, with his different projects like Wheelchairica all over the country archetype for the enlargement of the sporty and cultural activities of disabled persons. The sounding like rock-happy musical collage presented itself in December of the last year once more in the limelight. This time in a new staging in cooperation with musicians of the Muddy `s jazz `n blues clubs and the choir of the Dietrich's Bonhoeffer school at Weinheim. According to sold off performances in Mannheim (Capitol) and Karlsruhe (Rehab trade fair) was at Weinheim mayor Bernhard patron of the event. The musical with handicap - more than self-confident representation - clears up on with images about the life from and with disabled persons. Playfully, humorously and critically it makes easier thus the unprejudiced contact between people with and without impediment. Within the scope of the European year of the people with impediment (EJMB) a new dimension is put with live music and choir by integrative cultural presentation on the legs and wheels.
Rhein Neckar KSG
Honouring chooses for the first time engagement in the width sport - Rhein Neckar KSG presents cuttings from Wheelchairica.
07.05.04 - Today the German sports alliance (German Sports Association) has announced in the forum of the DZ Bank in Berlin with about 150 guests from economy, sport and politics the prelude to a new competition with which in future more specially social application is awarded by associations: The "stars of the sport". At invitation of the German Sports Association showed the Rhein Neckar KSG cuttings from, in the model project with the big bronze star of the sport decorated, musical "Wheelchairica". Within the scope of the event German Sports Association president Manfred von Richthofen, Dr. Christopher Pleister, president of the federal association of the German Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken (BVR), and the inhabitant of Karlsruhe mayor Harald Denecken put the German Sports Association campaign before. The discussion was presented by Jana Thiel, sports editor in the ZDF.
"We speak of the comprehensive recognition of the work for the public weal. Finally, we want to pay this not at all natural work", the aim of the new honour so explained von Richthofen in Berlin meanwhile more than 90,000 associations under the German Sports Association roof. The new honouring is in the frame of the German Sports Association campaign "a sport Germany well acts" integrated.
The german Sport Association
For the social application and innovative ideas of sports associations the new prices are award in ten areas: Among the rest, in the integration work with disabled persons, the integration of migrants and immigrants, the support of children and youngsters and the health sport for all age groups as well as with the environment protection, the management and the equalization of the genders.
Beside the German Sports Association and the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken the German town day as a representative of the local authority districts also supports the new competition. "Everybody knows: in many areas of a town nothing at all goes without honourary post", underlined Harald Denecken as a representative of the town day the meaning of the project. Denecken reported about the good experiences which were collected in his region within the scope of the model projects "Stars of the sport". There the first stars were award in the last year.