Madlen Bocklet
Carolin Burau
Madlen Bocklet is a social worker and will finish her Master’s degree in Empowerment Studies in autumn 2023. Through her internship semester as part of her Bachelor’s degree, Madlen got to know extracurricular political education work and has since been an educator working with young people and adults alike, online and offline. Madlen participated in the EJBW qualification programme from October 2022 to May 2023.
Madlen sees political education work as a space critical of power in which people are given the opportunity to understand their own positions, to enter into an exchange with others and to reflect on patterns of thought and action as well as attitudes. For her, a great power of political education work lies in enabling people to think in utopias.
It is central to Madlen’s work to meet people where they are and to find a language that deals sensitively with different needs and positions.
Madlen currently works mainly in historical-political education. The focus here is on dealing with National Socialist tyranny and the continuities of right-wing violence up to the present day. For Madlen, this is connected to the question of commemorating the victims and victims of National Socialist and right-wing violence: How are they remembered? Whose perspectives are in the foreground, which are not given space? How can we commemorate and thereby take into account and unite different perspectives?
Madlen is also interested in addressing climate (justice), capitalism (critique), social justice and feminism.
Madlen can offer workshops in German and English, online and offline.
