Save Berlin’s Renate Comics Library!
Rette Renate! • All Berlin Comic professionals, sign our letter to the Berlin Minister of Culture!
As most of you will know by now, Renate, our beloved comic library and the cornerstone of the comic community in Berlin is in danger of closing down in the next two months. My flatmate and esteemed colleague Sebastian Strombach and I have decided to take action and mobilise the whole comic community to save Renate!
To this effect, we have written a letter that we will give to the Minister for culture and Europe in Berlin, Dr Klaus Lederer, asking for financial help to protect Renate. This letter we want all you, comic artists, publishers, critics, comic store owners and employees, all the professionals of our Berlin Comic Community to sign it, as many of you already have.
Because we are such a small community, with an online petition we would only get a few thousands signatures at best which isn't so impressive in comparison to the hundreds of thousands some other online petitions can easily get.
This is why we have made an actual letter for you to sign to show how committed we all are to defending our community!
Because of the actual sanitary restrictions we have to do this one at a time so please, if you are a professional and want to sign the letter, contact me (insta or facebook) or Sebastian Strombach (Facebook) to see how we can arrange to meet (you come to us of we to you). Let's show them what we can do!
If you are leaving outside of Berlin, do not feel like meeting face to face with people at this time or are not a comic professional but still want to show you support, we also have an online petition on Change.org here:
https://www.change.org/retterenate
There you can also read the text from the letter in both English and German.
Original Post from Renate and how to help them directly:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMt6-4ABgNB/...
Illustration "Rette Renate" by Sebastian Strombach and Paul Winck.
Photo credit 1 to 4 goes to @vaconsartirani
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