{{short description, Organized public space cleanup in Bavaria
Rama dama or ramadama ( Bavarian: "We are cleaning!" from german: Räumen tun wir!) is a volunteer cleanup movement in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
, collecting waste from urban and natural public spaces. The organization is run by communities, schools, associations and citizens' initiatives.
Thomas Wimmer, the then-Mayor of
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, called for people to ''"rama dama"'' for the first time on 29 October 1949, addressing the damage done to the city during the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. More than 7500 volunteers joined the project, with Wimmer working with a shovel. In total, more than 15,000 cubic meters of rubble were collected that day. The term remained as designation for common, honorary tidying up.Kerstin Lottritz ''Vor 60 Jahren: Das erste „Rama Dama“'', 4. November 2009 /ref>