From the Cripple-Power-Festival to Independence Days: Disability Culture in Germany

Ottmar Miles-Paul

Ottmar Miles-Paul

Kassel, Germany

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Cripple-Power-Festival, Germany, disability culture

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The German cripple-power-festival is an initiative which promotes disability culture in Germany. The fourth festival of this kind took place in September 2003 as a part of the European Year of Disabled People. Ottmar Miles-Paul, a free-lance journalist based in Kassel, Germany provides insight about this initiative and the changes disability culture is making in the area of general disability politics in Germany.

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Dec 29, 2014

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Vol. 1 No. 1

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Forums

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Ottmar Miles-Paul, Kassel, Germany

OTTMAR MILES-PAUL is visually impaired and works as a free-lance journalist in Kassel, Germany. He has a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Kassel and spent 1989/90, one and a half years, in Berkeley, California for his studies, where he caught the spirit of equal rights and self-determination of disabled people. In the 1990s he served for many years as director of the German Council of Centers for Self-Determined Living and fought together with many others successfully for the first anti-discrimination law in Germany. Currently he coordinates a campaign for another equal rights law in Germany and is the president of a main online-disability magazine in the German speaking area with daily news around issues concerning disabled people under www.kobinet-nachrichten.org.

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