Date:    Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Time:    Doors open 8:30 am, last seating 9:30 am

Lecture 10:00 am – 11:00 am

*Major securtiy check is required for access to the venue. Please be advised to arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the closing of doors

Venue:   Masaru Ibuka Auditorium

Lecturer:    Joachim Gauck, President of the Federal Republic of Germany

Language:    German (with simultaneous interpretation in Japanese and English)

Application:   Prior registration period over

ID card required at Auditorium (Waseda Student ID, Waseda Staff ID, passport or driver’s license. ).

*Open to all Waseda students, faculty members, and the general public

*Please note that the list of attendees may be shared with the German Embassy for security reasons. Thank you for your understanding.

*Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Once the capacity of the venue has been reached, participants arriving thereafter will be escorted to a live broadcast venue on the 3rd floor. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided only in Japanese at the location. Thank you for your understanding.

 

Please note the following instructions

Re-entry to the venue will not be allowed after check-in.

Please turn off all mobile phones. Eating and drinking are prohibited inside the venue.

Changing seats or leaving the venue will not be allowed during the lecture.

Anyone causing a disturbance or refusing to follow instructions of event staff will be escorted out of the venue.

 

Inquiries

Waseda University International Office
Tel: 03-3203-7747
E-mail: [email protected]

 

About Federal President Joachim Gauck

Joachim Gauck was born in Rostock in 1940. After gaining his Abitur, the higher education entrance qualification, he studied theology. From 1965 to 1990 he was in the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg, working as a pastor for many years.

Joachim Gauck became involved in the opposition in the GDR at an early age. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the New Forum and became its spokesperson in Rostock. He was among the initiators of the church and popular resistance to the communist regime in the GDR and led the weekly prayers for peace which gave rise to the protest demonstrations.

In March 1990, Joachim Gauck entered the first freely elected GDR parliament as a member of the Alliance 90 – an amalgamation of several grassroots movements – and was elected chairman of the special committee overseeing the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security. On 3 October 1990, he was appointed Special Commissioner of the Federal Government for the files of the State Security Service relating to individuals by the Federal President on the recommendation of the Federal Government. From 1991 to 2000 he was the Federal Commissioner for the Files of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic.

From 2001 to 2004, Joachim Gauck was the German member of the Management Board of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia in Vienna.

In 2003, he became the Chairman of the Association “Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie” (Against Oblivion – For Democracy).

On 18 March 2012, Joachim Gauck was elected by the Federal Convention and became the eleventh President of the Federal Republic of Germany.