In the second comparison of cities "Culture and Creativity" by the European Commission, Munich takes second place behind Paris in the category of cities with over a million inhabitants. For example, the "Creative Hub", which has existed since 2021, will enter the second round in 2023 so that the city's creative industries can continue to work despite high rents.Designers, architects, photographers, illustrators, music producers, filmmakers and many more - in January, 23 freelancers and companies from the cultural and creative...
Bavaria's Ministry of Art announces that it will add 51.5 million euros to the federal government's energy aid.From now on, private and municipal art and cultural institutions can apply for the Bavaria bonus and the energy aid from the federal government. Because the rising energy prices are again presenting cultural institutions with existential challenges after the Corona crisis.Against this background, the Bavarian Council of Ministers launched hardship fund assistance for art and cultural institutions and cinemas in December 2022, and...
From Peter RichterSince the Berlin SPD has decided not to continue the red-green-red coalition in the capital again, Klaus Lederer's term as Senator for Culture will probably end soon. Because the left would be excluded from all government alliances that are still possible, even if the coalition negotiations between the SPD and CDU were to fail and there should still be a black-green alliance. Lederer's party performed too poorly in the repeat elections in February, leaving it in the hands...
From Wolfgang Janisch and Jens Christian RabeThe Berlin Academy of Arts has been temporarily forbidden by the Berlin Regional Court to publish the literary magazine sense and form to release. If she does, she faces a fine of up to 250,000 euros. The background to this is a lawsuit against competition law by the magazine Letter International and its editor Frank Berberich. The legal dispute is about paragraphs and money, but also about a fundamental question: Is freedom of the...
The culture magazine "Lettre International" defends itself against the competition financed by state funds. source site
This year, the city of Munich is awarding ten grants for authors and translators. They are each endowed with 8,000 euros, plus the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize for Literature, which is endowed with 3,000 euros. According to the culture department, the scholarships are intended to support "promising projects, primarily by younger Munich authors". This also includes children's and youth books, graphic novels and "outstanding achievements" by translators. Detailed information below muenchen.de/literaturstipendiumClosing date is March 16th. source site
Before Corona, the exhibition of Bavarian publishers had 160,000 visitors a year - in the Gasteig, which is now closed. The Free State is now spending more money to give her new perspectives and a new home.This year, the Munich book show will receive an additional 60,000 euros in funding from the Free State and a new home: the 64th edition of the Bavarian publishers' show is moving to the Haus der Kunst. "On significantly reduced terms," says Markus Blume,...
from Jörg HaentzschelThe Federal Cultural Foundation was founded in 2002 to promote projects and institutions of national importance. In addition to 3,000 individual projects to date, the Documenta, the Berlin Biennale and the Theatertreffen are also included. For 20 years the foundation was Hortensia Volkers - now Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska has taken over. Born in Warsaw in 1976, the theater scholar worked for three years in Tel Aviv as curator of the Polish Year and then became director of the Polish...
The British urban researcher Charles Landry speaks excellent German. He studied in Munich for some time during its wild, eventful years half a century ago. On the opening evening of the "Initiative Kulturzukunft" he sums up his analysis of what is currently going on in this country in his native language: "Death by delay!". In English: death by dawdling, the infirmity as a result of never-ending delays.The people in the packed hall of the Academic Choral Society in downtown Munich...
What if something grows in a woman's womb even though there hasn't been any apparent fertilization before? When the thing eludes all control, reproduces itself and grows? Jianling Zhang announced that she wanted to tell the story of a "ghost belly" when the student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts applied for the 2023 Media Art Prize of the Ingvild and Stephan Goetz Art Foundation. With her film project, Zhang wants to research "the history and formation of monstrous...
