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Education starts with art!

KRASS e.V. supports, financed by donations, children and young people through free artistic and cultural programmes.

Art opens doors and helps children and young people to follow a successful educational path. Through artistic projects, they gain self-confidence, learn to say ‘NO!’ and become less susceptible to negative influences. Art helps children to resolve conflicts constructively and reduces violence. This impressively demonstrates the crime-prevention effect of art.

Here you can watch a wonderful film about our work:

Das KulturMobil in Düsseldorf-Eller

KRASS e.V. is also dependent on YOUR commitment in order to be able to give children and young people more culture, education and attention. Every donation supports our work with a direct impact!

AND: if you are able to pay for our programmes, you are supporting our principle of enabling other children to participate.

Every donation supports our work with direct impact!

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Childrens birthday party

Workshops for Schools

Workshops with refugees


what do we do with the donations!

50.769

Children and young people participated in workshops.

321

volunteers have invested…

363.512

…hours into the projects of KRASS.

27

Foster children have received a scholarship!

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Our Organisation

We give children & young people culture, education and attention! Education is the key to social participation and personal opportunities for the future.

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Our Vision

In all regions of the world, children and young people should be given free and threshold-free access to education, art and culture.

Our projects

Our projects in the fields of art, theatre, music, dance, drama and new media:

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“If we want to change the world in a positive way, we have to start with the children.”

Claudia Seidensticker, founder of KRASS e.V.

Our team

All KRASSen team members contribute their knowledge and skills to one cause. Namely that of our vision. We cultivate a friendly and appreciative cooperation. Take a look at the following pages and get to know our management team and artistic team!

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„We do not regard our sponsors, donors in material/financial terms and donors of time as financiers and donors, but rather as partners with whom we develop common goals, to whom we offer added value and whom we would like to invite to “change roles”.“

Claudia Seidensticker-Fountis
Founder & chairwoman
c.seidensticker@krass-ev.de

„I am committed to a society in which the creative potential of children and young people are encouraged and given space. In doing so, we want to combine profit-oriented and socially responsible entrepreneurship and thus create added value. We stand up for a society in which social values are lived and which is shaped by self-confident and self-determined people.“

Anastasios Fountis
Board & Strategy
info@krass-ev.de

Carina Gonzalez Wohlenberg

“Being part of KRASS means developing concepts and projects for children and young people from creative ideas, finding strategies to finance them, implementing the concepts, and keeping an eye on the big picture!”

Carina Gonzalez
Managing Director & Head of Finance
c.gonzalez@krass-ev.de

“I studied painting in Istanbul and Karlsruhe. For the past two years, I have been teaching art classes at KRASS with great joy. It is a heartfelt concern of mine to share my enthusiasm for art and to give children space for creativity and self-expression.”

Ezgi Nur Akinci
Artist and Project Manager of KulturMobil
e.yurtsever@krass-ev.de

“Music is simply a wonderful medium for experiencing culture, exchanging ideas and having new experiences in a playful way. It’s always wonderful to explore your own limits together and to share space and time.”

Peter Musebrink
Musician, Project Coordinator
p.musebrink@krass-ev.de

“I support KRASS, because sometimes even heroes need help.”

Stephanie Woitek
Web design
s.woitek@krass-ev.de

“I support KRASS because I think it is great and important that all children have access to culture and art. I am happy that I can contribute to this with my support.”

Dirk Meyer
IT, Administration Teams ms365
d.meyer@krass-ev.de

„The fundamental concept of bringing culture, art and creativity in all its forms close to children and thus perhaps giving them undreamt-of perspectives, self-confidence and creative potential, has convinced us.“

Andreas Etzel
Art Director
a.etzel@hirnstrich.de

Our locations

Through the social franchise concept “KRASS vor Ort” we are represented in many cities in Germany as well as in Athens and Shanghai.

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