In the Cistercian Abbey of Waldsassen, the renovation and reorientation of the baroque monastery library can continue. There will be 516,000 euros for this in 2023 from the Bavarian Culture Fund. The Luisenburg Festival will receive new sound and lighting technology for 188,000 euros, and in Massing, in the district of Rottal-Inn, 421,000 will be donated for the construction of a new building for the Berta Hummel Collection.
These three projects are among those receiving the largest sums from the Free State fund this year. A total of five million euros flow into 44 art and culture projects as well as investment measures in all administrative districts.
The projects can be assigned to a wide variety of artistic areas. They include amateur music and music cultivation, contemporary art and museum work as well as theatres, archives, libraries and literature.
This is why, for example, the 2nd Academy Festival of the youth choir academy in the Deggendorf district, the special exhibition “Ice Age Safari Allgäu” in the Marstall von Kempten, the jazz festival “Sparks & Visions” in Regensburg and the open-air theater “Faust in Dorfen” will come about.
The most interesting construction measures that are being funded from the Kulturfonds include an amphitheater as a permanent summer venue in the Randersacker district in the Würzburg district and the renovation of the Landestormuseum in Furth im Wald.
The funding benefits artists’ associations, clubs and municipalities in all administrative districts in order to support them in their cultural work. Both new projects and follow-up measures are taken into account.
“The whole of Bavaria is bursting with artistic energy – whether in the cities or in rural areas,” says Minister of Art and Science Markus Blume, who was able to announce the good news from the state parliament this week. The Science and Budget Committee had approved his proposal to fund cultural projects with amounts of more than 25,000 euros each. “The projects give an impressive example of how lively and creative the art landscape in Bavaria is,” says Blume.
The five million are not distributed among the administrative districts according to proportional representation, but according to the application situation. Central Franconia received 415,000 euros, Lower Bavaria 944,600 euros, Upper Bavaria 1,269,600 euros, Upper Franconia 326,400 euros, Upper Palatinate 959,149 euros, Swabia 830,540 euros, Lower Franconia 141,600 euros.
So that things may look completely different again next year, and that Lower Franconia, for example, storm into the top ranks, the state sponsors are pointing out that applications for the Kulturfonds 2024 are already being accepted. Applications for the new round of funding can be submitted to the locally responsible district government by October 1, 2023.
In addition, non-governmental museums are invited to apply for the “Museum Security” program. For this purpose, cultural funds totaling up to one million euros will be made available in 2023 in order to review existing security facilities and concepts and adjust them if necessary. The robbery of the Celtic treasure from Manching has left its mark.