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In its blog, the Fonds provides in-depth insights into current developments, funding activities, goals, and projects through interviews, video statements, and talks with guests.
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Art requires freedom and courage
15 Oct 2025
The Fonds managing director, Holger Bergmann, looks back on two intensive days of events, the results of the individual workshops, important insights from the panel discussions and statements: Art needs freedom and courage to face current social challenges, art needs stable funding beyond the logic of individual projects – and it needs “alliances that are bigger than ourselves.”
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Tabori Preis 2025 | Das war die Preisverleihung
15 Oct 2025
On September 25, 2025, as part of The Show Must Go On. BUNDESTREFFEN25 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, the Tabori Prize was awarded for the 16th time—the highest national award for the independent performing arts. The 2025 Tabori Prize went to pulk fiktion. Highlights from the award ceremony can be found here.
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Black Box - White Cube: New narratives, diversity of forms, aesthetic risks or ancient blockages?
© Dorothea Tuch
13 Oct 2025
Independent performing arts create spaces for diversity, empathy, and social renewal—beyond market logic and political appropriation. Heinrich Horwitz summarizes the artists' workshop and advocates for protection, participation, and stable funding structures.
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Taking responsibility: Who represents whom and how?
© Dorothea Tuch
13 Oct 2025
Legitimacy, participation, and resources are key prerequisites—supplemented by creative competence, cooperation, and structural support. Anna Steinkamp and Helge-Björn Meyer summarized the workshop for interest groups at BUNDESTREFFEN25 as a plea for strong, agile organizations in the independent scene.
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ON HOLD. HOLD ON
© Dorothea Tuch
13 Oct 2025
Art needs freedom, trust, and reliable structures. At the end of the second day of the BUNDESTREFFEN25 event, Annemie Vanackere provided an insight into the topics and demands of the workshop for theater and festival managers.
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“Remaining effective” – self-positioning & scope for action
© Dorothea Tuch
13 Oct 2025
In times of precariousness and competition, fair conditions, open spaces, and genuine solidarity are crucial for cultural effectiveness. Felizitas Stilleke provided an insight into the topics covered in the workshops and made a plea for attitude, sustainability, and shared responsibility.
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Under Pressure
© Dorothea Tuch
06 Oct 2025
The BUNDESTREFFEN25 of the Independent Performing Arts at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, with its motto “The Show Must Go On,” provided an opportunity for coming together, exchanging views, taking stock, discussions and looking to the future. Impressions of the two-day event by cultural journalist Thomas Kaestle.
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Freie Darstellende Künste in Deutschland
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Tabori Prize 2025 | Winners announced
18 Aug 2025
The 2025 Tabori Prize of the Fonds Darstellende Künste goes to pulk fiktion. What makes their work special? What themes do they explore? This clip about the Tabori winners provides brief insights into their past productions.
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Rückblick: Filmpremiere & 40 Jahre Fonds
26 Mar 2025
The Fonds celebrated its 40th anniversary and the film premiere of “”Die Kunst, Viele zu bleiben“”! We would like to thank all guests from the arts, politics and associations, pioneers and companions for the hours spent together in the Sophiensaele. Special thanks and congratulations to film director Felix Meyer-Christian and his team. - A review in the video by Roman Hagenbrock.
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40 Jahre Fonds Darstellende Künste
© Dorothea Tuch
18 Mar 2025
In seiner Eröffnungsrede am Abend der Filmpremiere von "Die Kunst, Viele zu bleiben" und des 40. Jubiläums des Fonds Darstellende Künste blickt Geschäftsführer Holger Bergmann auf das Verbindende in der Kunst und aktuelle Herausforderungen an eine "Kunst, Viele zu bleiben".
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Die Kunst, Viele zu bleiben
© Dorothea Tuch
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New narratives for a world of the many
© Marcus Lieberenz
11 Dec 2024
At the Ratschlag der Vielen (Council of the Many) on November 28, 2024 at the Akademie der Künste on Pariser Platz in Berlin, many questions were raised, but some momentum was also created. The general consensus: society needs new narratives of diversity, but art must not be appropriated for this without any restrictions. After all, doesn’t its power to unleash new worlds lie precisely in its freedom? In these times, that would perhaps be the most political statement in the negotiation of democratic public spheres.
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DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN 2024
02 Dec 2024
From May to September 2024, the series of nationwide forums “DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN” brought people together at nine different locations in Germany through performances, workshops, discussions, singing performances and much more in order to pose the question of “how” a pluralistic and democratic society can be achieved.
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DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN 2024 (Audio description)
02 Dec 2024
From May to September 2024, the series of nationwide forums “DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN” brought people together at nine different locations in Germany through performances, workshops, discussions, singing performances and much more in order to pose the question of “how” a pluralistic and democratic society can be achieved.
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Theaterpreis des Bundes 2024 (audio description)
06 Nov 2024
On October 2, 2024, the award ceremony of the Theaterpreis des Bundes took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, where the Tabori Prize 2024 was also awarded.
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Theaterpreis des Bundes 2024
06 Nov 2024
On October 2, 2024, the award ceremony of the Federal Theatre Prize took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, where the Tabori Prize 2024 was also awarded.
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Casting an anchor into the future
© Sebastian Bolesch
21 Oct 2024
The art of staying many. The art of staying. The art of changing. The right to stay. The right to have a say. A question that an increasing number of people are asking themselves in an increasing number of places: ‘Should we stay or leave?’ - Contribution by Manja Präkels in the program of “THE ART OF STAYING MANY” at Kunstfest Weimar on August 24, 2024.
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Nazi Hits of the 1930s, 1990s and the Ugliest Chants of Today
© Sebastian Bolesch
15 Oct 2024
This isn’t some Nazi fixation. This is reality. The far-right has long become mainstream in many parts, not just yesterday. Travels around East, East, East Germany. - Writer Anne Rabe gave this speech on 24 August in Weimar as part of The Art of Staying Many – Nationwide Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy at the Kunstfest Weimar.
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Pina Bausch? I can do that too!
© Katrin Ribbe