Third prize in the Ferry Porsche Challenge 2026

14 September 2026

With “ZirkusTeilt”, SAILR wins €10,000 in the Ferry Porsche Challenge 2026.

At this year’s Ferry Porsche Challenge, under the motto “Growing older together – growing stronger together”, SAILR was awarded a third prize. Our project “ZirkusTeilt” will receive €10,000 in funding.

ZirkusTeilt connects circus education, art and biographical work. Seemingly simple objects can become keys to memories: a ball rests in your hand, and suddenly a childhood game, a particular place, a person or a long-forgotten movement may return.

What matters is not only the object itself, but the educational framework. Memories are not simply elicited through questions. Instead, sensitive, open questions invite a process of reflection: what comes to mind when I hold this object? Which thread would I like to follow? Which can stay as it is? What might I want to look at afresh? And what might come alive again?

This creates a space where movement, memory and personal storytelling can connect. The facilitator’s task is to keep this process open without prescribing answers. The focus is on the meaning an experience holds today rather than on recalling the “right” memory.

Arts education then takes up these threads and develops them further. Memories can be shaped, altered, condensed or given a new form. Biography is thus reflected upon and explored artistically as well as narrated.

The aim is expression, self-efficacy, encounters and appreciation of one’s own history, rather than performance or especially difficult circus tricks.

With the €10,000 prize money, we would now like to develop ZirkusTeilt further and put it into practice. The resulting programme will use circus and art to open a distinctive pathway to memories, life stories and new perspectives in later life.

We are delighted by the award and the opportunity to turn this idea into reality.

Photos: Max Kovalenko Photography