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Transformationen von Publika und Kulturlandschaft: Kulturpolitisches Metalabor

The independent performing arts are thought to have strong transformative powers and have long since productively dissected the audience: into many audiences, experts on everyday life, art as an inclusive process of the many and as an assembly. How do cities, states and the federal government react to these cultural changes, present and future, in fields such as diversity, demographic change, social justice and democratic culture?

In essence, it is a matter of a co-design and co-negotiation of society and, artistically, of further development in terms of content, aesthetics and structure. But what does the linking of the independent performing arts with transformation processes mean for the places and gatherings of art and culture in the cities? What does it mean for the orientation of cultural policy in the states and the federal government? And how can the process be further shaped - from one audience to two, three, many audiences?

The cultural policy Metalab brings together cultural policymakers from municipalities, states, and the federal government with actors from public administrations, interest groups, and the independent arts. Using concrete examples from the cultural landscape and cultural policy, panel discussions, keynote speeches and table discussions will focus on practical prospects for action and reports on experiences, the resilient shaping of current transformation processes in art and society, and the urgent and pressing questions of access and diversity in the (not only) independent performing arts.


Opening remarks: Jürgen Dusel (Federal Government Commissioner for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities)

Federal government: Anikó Glogowski-Merten (Member of the Bundestag, spokesperson on cultural policy for the Free Democrats’ parliamentary group), Erhard Grundl (Member of the Bundestag, spokesperson on culture and media for the Greens parliamentary group), Helge Lindh (Member of the Bundestag, spokesperson on cultural policy for the Social Democrats parliamentary group)

States: Miriam Agritelli (Head of Department, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin), Cerstin Gerecht (Head of Department, Ministry for Science and Culture, Brandenburg), Bijan Kaffenberger (Member of the State Parliament, Chairman of the Forum for Art and Culture of the Social Democrats in Hesse)

Municipalities: Marc Gegenfurtner (Head of Department, Cultural Office Stuttgart), Barbara Foerster (Head of Department, Cultural Office Cologne), Katharina Wolfrum (Cultural Department Munich)

Moderation by the board and management of Fonds Darstellende Künste: Amelie Deuflhard, Anne-Cathrin Lessel, Prof. Dr. em. Wolfgang Schneider, Holger Bergmann.

Also involved in the table discussions: Caroline Waldeck (Head of Department K27 "Theater, Dance, Performance" at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media), Isa Edelhoff (Representative for Theater, K27, Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media) as well as Sabine Bangert (former Chairwoman of the Cultural Committee Berlin), Thomas Engel (Director International Theater Institute), Sabine Gehm (Board Federal Association of Dance), Prof. Dr. Julius Heinicke (Institute for Cultural Policy, University of Hildesheim), Helge-Björn Meyer (Managing Director, Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste, (Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts), Anna Wagner (Artistic Director and Management Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm) and many more.

Graphic recording: Johanna Benz and Tiziana Beck
Journalistic support: Falk Schreiber, Thomas Kästle

 

  • Format: Panel and group discussion
  • Spoken Language: German
  • Access: step-free, GER↔ENG, sign language
  • Location: k6
  • Live-Stream