Who is the elite?.

For many politicians and business education masters, it is a positive term - for more students to a shudder. By "elite" are more than 200 young artists and designers apart. ONLINE blogs shows the best poster from a student competition.

 

The Elite is usually where the top. But where is the top, which is often relative. An iceberg has around its small tip on top of water - but can easily tilt down when the temperature only a little change.

Elite is uncertain and shaky, like an iceberg - so in any case it looks Florian Beddig, student at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and participants on 23 Poster competition of the Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW). Theme this year: "Elite: For all?"

Pure luck is the way to the elite or just into mediocrity for Henning Kreitel - his poster shows four matches, one of which is the word "ELITE", a hand holding the match calling out: "Put simply", and look what you kriegst. With its theme won the Stuttgart art student took first place in the poster competition.

Positive falls art students to elite hardly a

And another thing, the elite university education in school and bring with them: the pressure to be better than everyone else. The is sometimes so strong that a student does not remain as deeply to bend over the toilet and their frustration rauszulassen, "said the motive of Therese Bartelmann of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

218 students made the competition with. For business representatives and politicians elite is mostly positive: You are thinking of intellectual elite, elite universities, the elite of tomorrow. Quite different, however, the student artists to compete mostly negative associations when it comes to the concept is elite.

For them, the search for the best, especially for selection, exclusion, inequality increased. Because the parents were academics and elite, and also what the children - social advancement, as has been for decades, as well as excluded. Who's with the golden spoon in your mouth is born, it has been easier, so does the art of the Berlin student Stefan Schaubitzer.

Who fits the Elite scheme?

The other posters are characterized not a positive picture: Since touches an elite student as bloodthirsty Mutant around, students have to like the police can photograph and measure whether they are in the Elite scheme fit. Or they must be on the streets begging for alms, because access to the elite university in vain not to acquire.

Total of 344 designs sent to participants from 35 German universities. Five winners shared a prize of 5500 euros. The best 30 posters of the competition are now on tour through the Studentenwerke.