#TakePlace

The Fonds Darstellende Künste launched the comprehensive #TakeThat package of measures in October 2020 as part of NEUSTART KULTUR – the rescue and future package for the cultural and media sector financed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). The aim of this package of measures is to preserve and stabilize the independent performing arts during the coronavirus pandemic. One part of this package of measures is #TakePlace, a funding program aimed primarily at independent performing arts institutions such as production and guest performance venues as well as festivals with national appeal.

The aim of this program was to enable these venues, which had been considerably impacted by the measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, to develop future-oriented concepts and, via them, to already offer optimized access to art and culture.

What was supported?

#TakePlace funded measures that were intended to enable production and guest venues from the independent performing arts to align their structures in a sustainable manner. These included, among other things, the optimization of processes, actions, and operations with the goal of maintaining art or performance operations under pandemic conditions. The structural projects were intended to support processes that restructured and deployed existing resources in line with the situation. Projects that integrated environmental, sustainable, and innovative elements into the operations and operational procedures were also particularly welcomed.

Who could apply?

Eligible to apply were theaters and dance houses, performance and production venues, and festivals with nationwide appeal from the independent performing arts, as well as equivalent artists/groups that have their own publicly accessible space and are considered legal entities.

How much could be applied for?

The application amount was a minimum of €50,000 and a maximum of €100,000.
Co-financing or own resources/contributions amounting to at least 10% of the application sum had to be presented or proven for the relevant project at the time of application.

Antragstellung und Förderfristen

Applications could be submitted via the Fonds’ online application portal.


Funded projects

A listing of all funded projects can be found hier.

A funding program of the Fonds Darstellende Künste, including the expertise of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (BFDK) and the various state associations of the independent performing arts.

Jury

  • Amelie Deuflhard

    Intendant Kampnagel, Member of the Board of Fonds | Hamburg

    Portrait of Amelie Deuflhard © Marcelo Hernandez

    Amelie Deuflhard

    Intendant Kampnagel, Member of the Board of Fonds | Hamburg

    Amelie Deuflhard was artistic director of Sophiensæle (Berlin) from 2000 to 2007. In 2004/05 she was part of the artistic direction of "Volkspalast", a festival-like performance of the deconstructed Palast der Republik. Since 2007 she has been artistic director of Kampnagel (Hamburg), Europe's largest production center for the independent performing arts. With EcoFavela Lampedusa Nord, she initiated a living and action space for refugees in 2014. The project has found its extension at Kampnagel in the award-winning encounter space Migrantpolitan. Amelie Deuflhard was part of the curatorship of four of Theater der Welt 2017. She is the author of numerous publications and regularly holds teaching positions at universities. For her work, she was awarded the Caroline Neuber Prize in 2012 and the Insignia des Chevaliers des Arts et Lettres in 2013. In 2018, she received the European Cultural Manager of the Year award.

  • Matthias Pees

    Director of the Berliner Festspiele | Berlin

    Portrait of Matthias Pees © Jörg Baumann

    Matthias Pees

    Director of the Berliner Festspiele | Berlin

    Matthias Pees, geboren 1970 in Georgsmarienhütte, hat als Intendant und Geschäftsführer des internationalen Produktionshauses Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main (2013–2022), Leitender Dramaturg der Wiener Festwochen (2010–2013), Gründer und Ko-Geschäftsführer des internationalen Produktionsbüros prod.art.br in São Paulo (2004–2010), Programmdramaturg der Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (2003–2004), Theaterdramaturg am schauspielhannover (2000–2003) und an der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (1995–2000) sowie zuvor als Kulturjournalist und Theaterkritiker Erfahrungen in verschiedenen Bereichen und auf mehreren Seiten der darstellenden Künste gesammelt. Perspektivwechsel, kooperatives Arbeiten und „transformative Praktiken“ standen dabei erklärtermaßen im Zentrum seines Interesses; Themen wie globale Solidarität und Postkolonialismus, Zusammenhang und Zukunft von Internationalität und Diversität prägten seine Spielpläne und Projekte. In Frankfurt und der Rhein-Main-Region initiierte oder mitgestaltete er große interdisziplinäre Festivals und Kooperationsprojekte u. a. mit dem Ensemble Modern, dem Jüdischen Museum Frankfurt, dem Hessischen Staatsballett oder zuletzt mit dem Schauspiel Frankfurt, dem Museum Angewandte Kunst und der Frankfurter freien Szene für die Ausrichtung der Festivals „Politik im freien Theater“ der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb und „Theater der Welt“ des Internationalen Theaterinstituts (ITI).

    Matthias Pees is also a member of the management board of Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH, which continues to include Mariette Rissenbeek, Charlotte Sieben and Bernd M. Scherer.

  • Aenne Quiñones

    Curator, dramaturg, author, since 2012 deputy artistic director of HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berlin

    Portrait of Aenne Quiñones © Dorothea Tuch

    Aenne Quiñones

    Curator, dramaturg, author, since 2012 deputy artistic director of HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berlin

    After her studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, she worked as a research assistant at the Academy of Arts of the GDR. In 1996 she was co-founder and until 2003 curator of the theater festival "reich & berühmt". From 1997 to 2002 she was head of the theater/performance department at Podewil, Center for Contemporary Arts in Berlin. Here she realized various co-productions, guest performances and international festivals, including the 1997 festival "Live Art - New theatre for the 90s" with young British performers.

    She worked at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz from 2002 to 2011, mainly as curator for the Volksbühne im Prater. In 2010 and 2012 she was artistic director of the theater festival "Favoriten" in Dortmund and during the season 2011/2012 dramaturg at the Residenztheater Munich.

    Various publications, including: René Pollesch, "Liebe ist kälter als das Kapital," Hamburg 2009 and Postdramatic Theater in Portraits/Gob Squad "What are you looking at?", Berlin 2020.

  • Gregor Runge

    Dramaturg, curator | Bremen

    Porträt of Gregor Runge © Jörg Landsberg

    Gregor Runge

    Dramaturg, curator | Bremen

    Gregor Runge, born in Dresden, studied theater studies and comparative literature in Bochum and worked for the Impulse and FAVORITEN theater festivals, among others. From 2011 he worked as a dramaturg primarily with Samir Akika/Unusual Symptoms and the Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster. In 2012 he went to Theater Bremen as dramaturg. In 2015 and 2017 he co-directed the international performing arts festival OUTNOW! in cooperation with Schwankhalle Bremen. He has worked on projects for the Goethe-Institut in Novosibirsk and for the Goethe-Institut Ukraine. Since the 2018/2019 season, he has been co-directing the dance division of Theater Bremen with the company Unusual Symptoms together with Alexandra Morales. Under their co-direction, productions with internationally renowned choreographers such as Faye Driscoll, Adrienn Hód, Máté Mészáros and Núria Guiu Sagarra are created alongside the work of house choreographer Samir Akika. Two of the works created since then were invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2020. Gregor Runge is a regular member of various juries, including the board of trustees of the Fonds Darstellende Künste from 2018 - 2021 and for the state of NRW. In addition, he initiated and is responsible for the concert series Theater Bremen CLUB, which regularly presents artists* from the global jazz and pop landscape for the first time in Bremen.

  • Felizitas Stilleke

    Freelance dramaturg, curator | Berlin, Amsterdam

    Portrait of Felizitas Stilleke © Niklas Vogt

    Felizitas Stilleke

    Freelance dramaturg, curator | Berlin, Amsterdam

    Felizitas Stilleke is a freelance dramaturg, artist and curator. She directs conferences, such as the B.A.L.L. - Bundesweites Artist Labor of the Labore 2022, the Branchentreff 2019-2021, the Bundesforum 2017 or the RATSCHLAG DER VIELEN 2019, and takes over festival dramaturgies (Berliner Theatertreffen 2018, Impulse Theaterfestivals 2017 (under Florian Malzacher) or together with Johanna Yasirra Kluhs the theater festival FAVORITEN 2014) and is on the road as a production dramaturg in NRW, Berlin, Amsterdam and Zurich. She completed her Bachelor of German Studies/Education in Bochum and a Master in Cultural Poetics at the Wilhelms University in Münster. In 2018/19, she studied "Expanded Curation" as part of the international master's program at DAS theatre in Amsterdam. In 2020, she launched a series of podcast sessions at Ballhaus Ost titled "The Mother in Me is the Mother in You," in which she subjects the topic of not-yet/not-more/maybe/maternity to a collective rededication of discourse.

  • Prof. Dr. Margarita Tsomou

    Freelance dramaturg, cultural scientist | Berlin

    Portrait of Margarita Tsomou © missy magazine

    Prof. Dr. Margarita Tsomou

    Freelance dramaturg, cultural scientist | Berlin

    Prof. Dr. Margarita Tsomou is a cultural scientist and works from Berlin as an author, dramaturg, moderator, curator and professor. She co-founded the pop feminist Missy Magazine in 2008, is curator for theory and discourse at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and professor for contemporary theater practice at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Two of her recent curatorial works include the series Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence at HAU-Hebbel am Ufer and the Apatride Society event series in Paul B. Preciado's discursive program at Documenta 14.

  • Jonas Zipf

    Managing Director Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH | Hamburg

    Portrait of Jonas Zopf © Tina Peißker

    Jonas Zipf

    Managing Director Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH | Hamburg

    Born in Odenwald in 1982, studied psychology in Berlin and Paris and speech and musical theater direction at the Theaterakademie "August Everding" in Munich. Doctorate (ongoing) "Culture, Operation and Resonance" with Hartmut Rosa and Friedrich von Borries, HfBK Hamburg. Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Gabriele-Oehmisch-Stiftung and the Akademie Musiktheater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation.

    As a freelance dramaturg, he has worked for a variety of productions in Germany and abroad (including Kampnagel, Schaubühne, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theater Basel, Alfortville Paris). As founder, director and dramaturg he developed a number of site-specific productions with the independent group O-Team (including "HermannSchlachten" at the Stuttgart Wagenhallen, "Blaupause" in the former editorial building of the Süddeutsche Zeitung or "Kirschgärten" at the Hofgut Oberfeld Darmstadt) and most recently "Flüchtlinge" at the Thalia Theater Hamburg.

    From 2011 to 2013 he was head dramaturge/member of the artistic direction at Theaterhaus Jena and in the 2014/2015 season drama director at Staatstheater Darmstadt. He has worked as festival curator and dramaturge (Rodeo Festival Munich, Datterich Festival Darmstadt, Wiesbaden Biennale) and lecturer (LMU and HfMT Munich, HfMT Leipzig, TU Darmstadt, JGU and HfMT Frankfurt, JGU Mainz, EAH and FSU Jena). Zipf directed JenaKultur from 2016 to 2022. Since the 2022/23 season, he has been executive director at Kampnagel Hamburg.