#stipendien

In knapp einem Monat nähert sich der 31. Todestag von Cliff Burton, dem legendären und verspielten Bassisten von Metallica. Ich mein der Bursche hatte schon viel Charisma, aber sein Vater scheint mir da noch einen draufzulegen. Ray Burton, mittlerweile 92 Jahre alt, hatte damals schon, zu Lebzeiten von Cliff, seinen Traum immer unterstützt und gefördert. Ein Traum der dann tragisch sein Ende nahm. Cliff hat auf den ersten drei Alben von Metallica mitgewirkt und diese verkaufen sich auch heute immer noch gut. So dass es auch immer noch Tantiemen für die Songschreiber gibt, so auch für Cliff, resp. kommt der Check mit dem Geld nun zu seinem Vater Ray Burton. Dieser jedoch gibt all das Geld für Stipendien aus an Cliff Burtons Highschool, der Castro Valley High School;

“From the royalties that I get, I give a scholarship to the high school he went to, the Castro Valley High School, for music. So the kids that have won it thank me for it. I think Cliff probably would have done that with his money, because he was not against education by any means. He liked it very much.”

Ray erinnert sich auch noch an den ersten Check, den Cliff erhalten hatte für Kill ‘Em All. Es waren 1’500 Dollar und er lud seine Eltern zum Abendessen ein.

“I had absolutely no idea what that album meant. We realized that things had a possibility of really getting big when Cliff got his first royalty check. I think it was $1,500. He said, ‘Mom and dad, here’s my first check. Come on, I’ll take you out to dinner tonight.’ ‘Okay, let’s go!’ We went to dinner to his favorite sushi place in Hayward, which is right next door to Castro Valley. That was the first thing that I got that maybe there were bigger things down the road.”

I did not expect scholarships to be such a complicated thing. I searched half of the internet (or at least it feels that way) and I only came up with four foundations I want to apply to. Those are:

Heinrich Böll Stiftung (apply until 1st of March, online)

Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst (appy until 1st of March, online)

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (apply until 15th of April, online)

Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung (apply until 30th of April, online)

Their deadlines are way earlier than I expected, as well! I am already stressed just from looking at my to do list. I need references from teachers and resumes and “Motivationsschreiben” for all of them. And many of them have their very own forms they would like the referee to fill out. So now I have to email my teacher and ask her to fill out four different forms for me... I am not sure how useful it is to write down my application progress here but I will add some links to websites you can use to find scholarships. (Many of them are german though, sorry)

stipendienlotse

DAAD (that one has a nice list of links!!)

Studiumplus (the biggest foundations in germany, many political)