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Severe Cuts to the Federal Cultural Funds indicate a lack of consistent and sustainable support for the independent arts and culture scene
Statement of the Federal Cultural Funds on the 2025 Budget Proposal of the Federal Government
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY. Nationwide Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, activities and debates.
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Theaterpreis des Bundes
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) is once again awarding the Federal Theater Prize in 2024.
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Tabori Preis 2024
Save the Date: Award ceremony on October 02, 2024 as part of the Federal Theater Prize (Theaterpreis des Bundes)
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Severe Cuts to the Federal Cultural Funds indicate a lack of consistent and sustainable support for the independent arts and culture scene
"the six Federal Cultural Funds are to receive only about half the funds compared to the 2024 budget." Read the entire Statement of the Federal Cultural Funds on the 2025 Budget Proposal of the Federal Government
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, events and debates. Starting in Berlin, the journey continues to Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Potsdam, Erfurt, Weimar and Dresden. The mobile theater truck stops everywhere and becomes a platform, a space for discourse, a cinema and a stage. The Art of staying many. Each for themselves - and together in heterogeneity, pluralism and acceptance of our diverse society.
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BLICKWECHSEL – Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste
In her latest documentary, Janina Möbius examines the relationship between audiences and artists against the backdrop of growing social challenges. The film premiered on May 25, 2025 as part of "THE ART OF STAYING MANY".
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Theaterpreis des Bundes 2024
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) is once again awarding the Federal Theater Prize in 2024. Theater institutions can now apply with their portfolio and innovative formats. The closing date for entries is 15.04.2024.
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The "CHICKS* case" at the WILDWECHSEL festival
The "CHICKS* case" at the WILDWECHSEL festival affects us all. And we would like to emphasize: "Lecken" is supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste ...
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Shield & Shine
150 cultural institutions are the first co-initiators of the "Shield & Shine" campaign of the VIELEN. Among them is the Fonds. DIE VIELEN are calling for discussions and demonstrations to shine more brightly for a pluralistic, democratic shaping of the world and to resolutely oppose right-wing extremism.
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A model project for Saxony
23 Jul 2024
Anne-Cathrin Lessel, director of Leipzig-based LOFFT, and FORWARD DANCE COMPANY artistic project manager Gustavo Fijalkow talk to Christine Wahl about three forms of participation that will be implemented with the money from the 2023 Theaterpreis des Bundes.
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Massive Kürzungen bei den Bundeskulturfonds zeugen von keiner konsistenten und nachhaltigen Förderung der freien Kunst- und Kulturszene
19 Jul 2024
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"We have tons of great projects"
16 Jul 2024
Managing Director Hendrik Frobel, in-house dramaturge Geordie Bookman and artist duo Ana Jordao and Vincent Kollar in conversation with Christine Wahl about the residency program that Chamäleon Berlin is implementing with the prize money from the 2023 Theaterpreis.
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Spaces to try things out
03 Jul 2024
Artistic director Wagner Carvalho, dramaturge Fabian Larsson, set designer Leonie Brüggenwerth and costume designer Mathieu Amadou from Ballhaus Naunynstraße talk to Christine Wahl about a new learning and exchange format that will be launched at the theater in October thanks to the prize money from the Theaterpreis des Bundes.
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No fear of new images of masculinity
26 Jun 2024
This weekend in Potsdam, THE ART OF STAYING MANY will explore new narrative forms in volatile times. Journalist and writer Nora Burgard-Arp will be exploring feminist perspectives on right-wing extremist narratives. For our magazine, she talks about her work as an author.
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Politics of the independent performing arts. Five short portraits of artistic processes.
24 Jun 2024
On May 25, 2024, the documentary "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" by Janina Möbius celebrated its premiere at HAU Hebbel am Ufer/HAU3 as part of the event series "DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN. Nationwide Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy" premiere. The documentary was commissioned by the fund and takes a look at the relationship between the public and artists with a special focus on the increasing polarization of society. In his introductory lecture on the occasion of the film premiere, cultural scientist Sebastian Köthe portrayed five aesthetic methods of politicization in the performing arts of the present day.
About the Fonds
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Funding
With its funding lines, the Fonds continues the specific support of the independent performing arts.
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Consulting
The Fonds Darstellende Künste not only supports projects, but is also a service and consulting partner for independent artists, collectives and institutions. The office advises interested parties and artists on aspects of the application process as well as on structural and organizational issues beyond the scope of its own funding programs.
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The Fonds Darstellende Künste
For over 30 years, the Fonds Darstellende Künste has been one of the six federal cultural promotion funds supporting the art and cultural landscape of the Federal Republic of Germany, with a special focus on promoting the independent performing arts.
THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Erfurt
16 - 17 August 2024Format: nationwide forums
Erfurt | Plattenstufen-Festspiele präsentiert vom PHOENIX Theaterfestival
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. In Erfurt, the forum takes place away from the cathedral and old town at the Platz der Völkerfreundschaft in the middle of the prefabricated housing block in Rieth. And is planned as a very practical strategy of friendship with networks, communities, a performative beauty salon (Frauke Frech) and arguing, grumbling, singing (citizens')-choirs - for a resistant and contentious local community.
Registration
Further information on the program and registration can be found here.
16.04.2024 | Info-Veranstaltung für Antragstellende | Produktionsförderung
19 August 2024, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PMFormat: Info-Veranstaltung
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Das Team des Fonds Darstellende Künste stellt die Produktionsförderung in einer öffentlichen Online-Informationsveranstaltung vor.
more21.08.2024 | Info-Veranstaltung für Antragstellende | GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS
21 August 2024, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PMFormat: Info-Veranstaltung
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