Programme in 2024
Here you can read what there was to discover on the festival grounds in 2024. The free workshops always take place on Saturday after breakfast and before the start of the stage program (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.).
Amnesty International
info booth and workshop
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL works independently of governments, political parties, ideologies, religions and economic interests. Amnesty fights for the release of political prisoners, i.e. people who are being held because of their gender, political convictions, ethnic origin, skin colour, language, national or social origin or economic status and who have neither propagated nor used violence. Amnesty also endeavours to investigate human rights violations, for fair and speedy trials, against the death penalty and torture, against political murder and ‘disappearances’, for the protection of asylum seekers if they are threatened with repatriation to a country where human rights are violated, for the protection of people in armed conflicts, for effective controls on the arms trade and for the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights. We will offer insights into the concrete work of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Lübeck at our information stand.
Workshop: ‘With colour and imagination: postcards for freedom’
Dear children,
Together we want to design colourful and creative postcards and do something important in the process. We will send these cards to Toomaj Salehi, a rap musician from Iran who is in prison. With our cards, we want to encourage him and show him that we are thinking of him. Your postcards are a sign of friendship and support. You can also learn a bit about human rights and why they are so important. Of course, we will have a lot of fun and it will be colourful and creative and we are looking forward to many creative and colourful postcards and an inspiring afternoon with you! If your parents really want to come along, just bring them 😉
Anfachen Award VIII – 25 winning posters on the subject of fear
info stand and exhibition
Large, colourful and bold – these are the posters of the Anfachen Award VIII on the subject of “fear”. Once again, hundreds of international artists accepted the invitation of the political poster competition from Hamburg to dedicate themselves to a subject of great relevance for our time. The 25 winning motifs – selected by a renowned jury – can be seen in large format as part of our festival. They invite you to pause, discuss and move on inspired!
www.anfachenaward.de, @anfachen_award
WarmUp!
Info stand
We are the WarmUp! team and have been committed to promoting democracy and diversity in schools in MV for more than 11 years now. A functioning democracy depends on the active participation of all citizens. This is exactly why WarmUp! offers workshops and tries to sensitise young people to democratic values and encourage them to become actively involved.
Workshops offered in Jamel:
- Island Visions – building your own society: Design your ideal coexistence together and see how you would tackle social problems.
- Looking to the Right: get to know the cornerstones of the extreme right-wing scene.
Working Group KONRAD Schacht
info booth with candyfloss! and workshop
For over 35 years, the Schacht KONRAD working group has been committed to the safe handling of nuclear waste throughout Germany. On 15 April 2023, the last nuclear power plants in Germany were shut down – a great day for the anti-nuclear and climate movement. A major obstacle to a sustainable transition to a decentralised supply of renewable energy has finally been removed. What remains after 60 years of nuclear power production is a huge amount of radioactive waste that must be stored safely for at least 1 million years. “Where?” is the big question. Certainly not in the old, dilapidated KONRAD iron ore mine in Salzgitter. www.ag-schacht-konrad.de
Workshop: on nuclear waste policy, nuclear waste disposal, the search for a final repository, renewable energies, climate protection, ideas, visions.
Company Counselling Team (bbt) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
info stand and workshop
We at BBT advise and support those affected by discrimination in their work environment. We have a special focus on attacks by right-wing organisations and their attempts to build a political foundation in companies. It is therefore part of our work to communicate the strategies and behaviour of the various right-wing actors. In this context, we will present the character of the New Right in a workshop, as well as their approach, their networks and their relationship to other right-wing organisations.
Workshop: The network of the New Right in the context of the results of the European and local elections.
Wismar University of Applied Sciences – Faculty of Design
Info stand and workshop
Wismar University of Applied Sciences is organising a screen printing workshop for children and adults on Friday from 5 to 7 pm and on Saturday afternoon from 1 to 6 pm. Design your own T-shirt with likeable little monsters who stand by our side in the fight for democracy and tolerance. Simply bring a single-colour shirt with you or get one on site for a donation – while stock lasts. All donations will go back to the festival. You can also have other textiles printed, for example bags or jumpers. Once again this year, we will have the popular Jamel stools for tolerance and democracy. In rainy weather, the offer may be limited.
Humanist Association Berlin-Brandenburg KdöR
Info stand
As a worldview community, we have been working passionately since 1993 to make our society more humane and tolerant. With over 60 social projects, we are active in many areas: we run hospices, help the homeless and provide counselling for senior citizens as well as open child and youth work. We run numerous daycare centres and family centres, a pregnancy (conflict) counselling centre and a queer youth art and cultural centre. The Humanist Association is there for people in every situation, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality or ethnic origin. That’s why we always and everywhere take a clear stance against the extreme right!
Young Industrial Union Metal Youth Lübeck Wismar
info stand and workshop
As a trade union, we represent the interests of employees and demand a social, democratic and ecological economic order as well as healthy and fair working conditions for a good life.
As a cooperation of the Schwerin, Rostock, Stralsund-Neubrandenburg and Lübeck-Wismar branches together with the DGB Youth North, we would like to inform you – as in previous years – about the trade union work and make the world a little more colourful with water tattoos or glitter.
Workshop: Yoga against Nazis – once again this year we are looking forward to Sabine Simon and her PUNKROCKYOGA.
Kein Bock auf Nazis (“Not interested in Nazis”)
info stand
Kein Bock auf Nazis has been supporting, networking and informing young people about the extreme right, racism and the neo-Nazi scene since 2006. Our voluntary project was founded by the Berlin band ZSK and the Antifaschistische Pressearchiv und Bildungszentrum e.V. (apabiz). We work entirely with donations and are supported by bands and artists such as Die Toten Hosen, Bela B., Die Ärzte, Wir Sind Helden, Broilers, Madsen, Donots, Fettes Brot, Beatsteaks, Deichkind, Sportfreunde Stiller, Anti-Flag and many more. With the help of donations, we have already distributed 250,000 free DVDs and more than one million school newspapers throughout Germany in recent years. We constantly provide information material, stickers and tips on what can be done for initiatives, groups and individuals who are committed to fighting right-wing extremism. We are a point of contact and provide young people with initial help to raise their voices against the shift to the right and growing social coldness. We network, we encourage, we help people to become active. Against neo-Nazis and racism. Together we can make a difference!
Loud against Nazis
Info stand
We are really looking forward to finally coming to Jamel. In the last few years we have always been on tour or at festivals. Finally, the time has come. We look forward to welcoming you to our stand and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. We have been fighting and polarising against right-wing extremism and contempt for humanity for 20 years. We will inform you about our work and of course offer our textiles and our ‘Antifascist Café’. We are especially looking forward to the two wonderful Lohmeyers and, of course, to you and a brilliant festival. Shortly before the elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, it is all the more important to make a big statement at this place of resistance.
KUNO – Art and Culture Network North e. V.
Network for the promotion of art and culture in Wismar and the district of Nordwestmecklenburg
Info stand
Our goal is to enable vibrant culture for everyone in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg and the city of Wismar. To this end, we support cultural actors, make them visible to the public and network them with politics, administration and business. We promote cultural education for children and young people and organise or support integrative, intercultural projects.
Lobbi e. V.
at the RAA stand
LOBBI advises victims, relatives and witnesses after racist, anti-Semitic, homo- and trans*-hostile and other right-wing motivated attacks. We provide support with legal, financial and psychological issues, among other things. The service is outreach, voluntary, free of charge and anonymous if desired. Reporting to the police is not a requirement.
Wir sagen Moin! (“We say hello”)
Info stand
“Wir sagen Moin e.V.” was founded in 2015 as an initiative that stands for an open society in which humanity and helpfulness are actively practised regardless of origin, faith, appearance and language. With a permanent presence, public relations work and the sale of merchandise, the initiative supports and promotes various projects that benefit refugees.
Omas gegen Rechts Lübeck
info stand
We take a clear stance against the right! We will not stand by and watch in silence as fascism, sexism and other forms of discrimination spread. We live democracy and defend it with all our strength against all those who try to jeopardise and attack it. We want to be visible and network, we want to encourage people to stand up for a tolerant, vibrant society, for a future fit for grandchildren, in which all people are treated with respect and constantly offered protection from wars and the like. Anti-fascism is and remains manual labour: we form the firewall with you. The OMAS GEGEN RECHTS from Lübeck send a hearty ‘Alerta’.
The title of our workshop is: ‘Morning pint with the OMAS’
You can reach us at ogrluebeck@posteo.de
MISSION LIFELINE – because every life counts
Info stand + workshop
Every day, people risk their lives because they have to flee their homes. They drown in the Mediterranean. They freeze in forests on Europe’s external border. They live like prisoners in inhumane camps – forgotten and lost. We do not accept this. In various successful projects, such as the sea rescue in the central Mediterranean, the observation mission in the Atlantic, on Lesbos, but also in Ukraine and with the evacuation of people in danger from Afghanistan, we were able to rescue people fleeing from acute danger and support them a little on their way to a safe future. The organisation also focuses on observation, reporting, education and, of course, human rights and political work.
Workshop: I would like to do something, but I don’t know how.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament
Enquete Commission ‘Being young in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’
at the WIR stand
‘Democracy thrives on participation’ – Yawn! So far, so familiar. But now the state parliament is getting serious. Young people can say how they imagine the future in MV and what politics should consider and regulate. This is called #mitmischenMV. And we’ll rock the forester with you. Come to the #mitmischenMV workshop organised by the State Parliament’s Enquete Commission. There you (everyone up to the age of 27) will have the opportunity to express your opinions, perspectives and ideas for the future of young people in MV directly to the state parliament. We will explain what happens to the answers, discuss topics and develop proposals. In short: democracy to get involved in!
Party Project ODYSSEE
Regular Forstrock guests know the large, colourful chill-out tent: with a good music system, lasers, lights and glitter balls, with lots of information about party drugs, driving licences and drugs, safer-use education, mixed consumption, detection times, pill warnings, extenders in cocaine and XTC etc. and give-aways such as earplugs, glucose, fruit, condoms, safer-sniff tubes etc.
RAA Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania e. V. – Regional Centre for Democratic Culture West Mecklenburg
info stand and workshop
The Regional Centre for Democratic Culture West Mecklenburg, sponsored by the RAA, provides advice and training on how to deal with right-wing extremism, group-focused misanthropy and on how to strengthen democracy. We provide information, networking and support counsellors in their search for concrete options for action.
Workshop: Right-wing extremist shadow worlds
The far right wants Germany to burn. The election results of the AfD, right-wing extremist deportation fantasies and racist attacks show how dangerous this is for democracy and the people. That’s why this year, we will delve into the shadowy worlds of right-wing extremism and show you where right-wing extremists are active and how they are trying to turn society to the far right. All you need is your smartphone, sturdy shoes, anti-mosquito spray and a bit of exercise.
Radio LOHRO
LOHRO – the ‘local radio station of the Hanseatic city of Rostock’ has been broadcasting a 24-hour full programme on seven days of the week as a non-commercial station since 1 July 2005. The participatory radio station stands for commitment, diversity and music outside the mainstream. Around 200 volunteers are democratically involved in almost 60 word and music editorial teams – from punk to jazz & blues, from culture to the environment and politics. People from 10 to 80 years old broadcast here, from a wide range of industries, countries and social classes. That’s why LOHRO sounds different: charmingly unroutine, musically alternative, culturally informative and ‘real’.
Workshops: Radio taster course + ‘Recognising fake news’
RESQSHIP e.V.
info stand
RESQSHIP e.V. has been active in civil sea rescue for seven years. We sail off the Libyan and Tunisian coasts with our motorised sailer Nadir to help people in greatest need, to save them from drowning or being pulled back into torture camps. For years, we have been hoping that we could make ourselves superfluous, that people would no longer have to travel these routes and risk their lives. The development is completely different, we and our colleagues from other organisations are urgently needed. This year alone, we were able to support many rescued people, but we also had to transport and mourn more dead people than in previous years. It is becoming increasingly dangerous for people on the run, especially due to Europe’s fatal isolationist policy.
We are proud to have been part of Germany’s most important festival for years and to be able to promote our cause and collect donations. Sea rescue is expensive, but affordable, a human life is not.
Rock gegen Rechts the right e. V.
Festival breakfast on Saturday + info stand
Loud against racism – that’s what Rock gegen Rechts Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. stands for! Founded in Stralsund, but now active throughout the state and networked nationwide. Associated with us are, for example, Rhythmus gegen Rassismus in Güstrow and the mobile disco Fette Elke, which is on the road at smaller and larger festivals and celebrations. Come visit our information stand and find out about our work – or fill your stomach at our place after a night of rocking out! We are organising the festival breakfast on Saturday again this year! For a donation of 3-1000 euros, you can get everything you need for a good start into the day. Just follow the smell of bread rolls and coffee or the signs on the site!
Chess Café of the Chess Club Kaltenkirchen
Chess has fascinated us since our childhood; festivals since our youth. We would like to share this fascination with you, experience it together and celebrate it. We have plenty of classic game material including clocks, Lego chess and other interesting games that you are welcome to try out. We will also provide you with various materials about the ‘Verein(t) gegen Rechtsextremismus’ campaign. If you also want to know what a cosmopolitan fridge is all about, you will also find some materials from the ‘Aktion Zivilcourage’ association. We are sure that things will not only get heated on and in front of the stage, but also on the chess boards. After all, we’re the inventors of ‘combining action and calm’. Nobody knows as well as we do: chess rocks!
Cooperative Regional School and Grammar School “Tisa von der Schulenburg” Dorf Mecklenburg & International school Ecolea Schwerin
info stand and workshops
We are the ‘Updaters – School without Racism 2.0’ of the Kooperative Gesamtschule Dorf Mecklenburg. At our school, we always try to address discrimination and racism and are delighted to have Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer at our side as mentors. The compulsory elective course ‘Courage’ at the ecolea/Intenationale Schule Schwerin also deals with a wide range of social issues in order to bring them into everyday school life and lessons.
Both schools are part of the ‘School without Racism – School with Courage’ community, which is supported by the RAA Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. There will be a quiz about the project and the festival at our stand – with colourful prizes, of course. You will also have the opportunity to design your own Forstrock button and there will be two workshops on Saturday.
Workshop I: A woman is harassed on the street. A man is threatened with a weapon. A person is verbally attacked because of their origin. In these situations, you often don’t know what to do. If you want to learn how to act with civil courage in these situations, then you’ve come to the right place! We are Rade, Ellen and Anastasia from ecolea I Internationale Schule Schwerin and we look forward to seeing you!
Workshop II: Customise your fabric bag with our textile crayons. Create your own souvenir from the Rock den Förster Festival. A joint workshop organised by RAA and ecolea I International School.
SJD – The Falcons Regional Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Info stand
The Falken MV are an independent, voluntarily organised, left-wing children’s and youth association in the tradition of the workers’ movement. In addition to holiday trips and camps, we organise seminars, group sessions and international meetings for children and young people in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Internationalism, co-determination, self-organisation, solidarity and anti-fascism are principles of our work alongside freedom and equal rights. In our activities, we aim to enable all children and young people to participate and have a say, regardless of their origin, gender or budget.
TIM* (trans* and inter* people in Mecklenburg) e. V.
Info stand + lecture
We are a young organisation for trans*, inter* and non-binary (tin*) people from the SN, NWM and LUP area. Our focus is on peer-to-peer counselling, public relations and educational work, as well as advocacy. We are represented with our info stand at various events such as CSDs in MV, Open Day of the State Parliament in Schwerin, WIR-Meile Schwerin, etc.
We are also concerned about the increasing anti-queer violence in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; the raising of a swastika flag in Neubrandenburg and anti-queer stickers on clubs and party offices in Schwerin are just the tip of the iceberg.
Instagram: @tim_mecklenburg
Lecture on tin* topics (e.g. general information on tin*, LGBTIQA+ or gender-equitable language)
Ver.di District Schwerin
info stand + panel discussion
ver.di? That’s us. Around two million people from around 1.000 professions nationwide. We are all ver.di because we simply achieve more together. We are ver.di because in our trade union we not only have a say, but also make decisions. We are ver.di because the union protects us. And we are in ver.di because we want more justice – in our country and in our world. All this is ver.di – and much more. As the ver.di district of Schwerin, we have been guests at Forstrock since 2017 and will once again be providing you with fresh popcorn, tattoos, glitter and lots of love this year.
Panel discussion (parallel to the workshops on Saturday afternoon): ‘Shift to the right – where is culture heading?’
The AfD’s electoral successes at all political levels pose challenges. Be it in parliamentary questions about the funding of cultural institutions or debates about their political orientation and programmes. We have already experienced the shift of discourse to the right. The work of cultural professionals is becoming more difficult in the overall social climate and cultural venues are in danger even though they are so important as places of encounter. Do democracy clauses protect work in the (socio)cultural sector or are they more of a gateway for political opponents? Together, we want to take a look at the (socio)cultural landscape of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. We will talk about the challenges involved in funding projects and discuss strategies and possibilities for what each individual can do to support them. Among others, cultural actors and representatives of the Ministry of Culture MV will discuss.
WIR. Success needs Diversity (WIR)
16 years for a diverse, democratic and tolerant Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
info stand
The proceeds from our ‘WIR Share’ donation format have also been used to financially support the festival in Jamel since 2014. At our info stand, WE will be providing information about this and the work of the initiative. The initiative was founded in 2008 by representatives of the state parliament, trade unions, business organisations, the Protestant and Catholic churches and sports organisationa after the NPD entered the state parliament. In the years that followed, a broad alliance was formed that now has more than 2,000 members and continues to grow. The organisations, associations, initiatives, celebrities from culture and sport as well as many committed people defend basic democratic values and stand for a tolerant Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Whether in co-operation projects or with their own events and campaigns, WE work together against all forms of extremism, racism and anti-democracy.
The initiative is chaired by the President of the state parliament, Birgit Hesse. She is also the patron of the ‘Jamel rockt den Förster’ festival.
People who are members of right-extremist organizations, the right-extremist scene or who portray a right-extremist mindset are not welcome at the festival!
