Jazz pianist Bernd Lhotzky developed new creative energy during the pandemic, director Michael Stacheder had to cancel readings due to a lack of audience. Both of them know one thing: it remains difficult, especially for freelance artists.
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Udo Watter, District of Munich
Is life serious, is art cheerful? Well, for many people who make a living from art and culture, the past few years have been cloudy rather than bright. Even if the area of beauty, the sublime and the dramatic likes to distance itself from everyday life and normality is considered to be the natural enemy of art, the so-called return to normality has become an often expressed longing. After the mask requirement, proof of vaccination and space restrictions gradually fell in 2022, this return to normality was essentially equated at some point with: the return of the audience.