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DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | Tour
21 May 2024
On May 24 and 25, 2024, the fund will open the series "DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN" with the kick-off event at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In addition to a cultural policy panel, the film premiere "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" by Janina Möbius and the German premiere of "La Obra", the theater truck, which will set off to the eight other stops on the tour, will be officially inaugurated.
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DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | Tour
21 May 2024
On May 24 and 25, 2024, the fund will open the series "DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN" with the kick-off event at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In addition to a cultural policy panel, the film premiere "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" by Janina Möbius and the German premiere of "La Obra", the theater truck, which will set off to the eight other stops on the tour, will be officially inaugurated.
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"There can be no simple positions"
© Björn Frers
13 May 2024
On May 24, the Fonds Darstellende Künste is launching a series of programs that invite people to attend performances, workshops and discussions at nine locations in and around theaters in eight German cities. The Bundesweiten Foren will focus on major concepts such as democracy and freedom, contradictory perspectives, encounters and art. In an interview with Elisabeth Wellershaus, Holger Bergmann, Managing Director of the Fonds, talks about the background to THE ART OF STAYING MANY.
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Review of the 2023 funding year
07 May 2024
Holger Bergmann, Managing Director of the Fonds Darstellende Künste, with a summary of the Fond's funding situation for 2023 and the new developments in 2024.
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DIE KUNST VIELE ZU BLEIBEN
29 Apr 2024
The series "THE ART OF STAYING MANY" starts with the kick-off event on May 24 and 25, 2024 in Berlin and then travels on to eight different theaters, festivals and production venues. Holger Bergmann, Managing Director of the fund, provides insights into the journey of the theater truck and pleads for the importance and strengthening of democracy through projects such as this one.
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Fördersituation 2024
23 Apr 2024
Holger Bergmann, Managing Director of the Fonds, reports on the improvements in the Fonds' funding situation compared to the time before the coronavirus pandemic.
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Art knows no language barriers
© privat
05 Apr 2024
In the project "Think common – play common" – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program – child refugees from a range of countries came together. David P. Fischer, a team member of Stadt|Raum|Museum e.V, reports.
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Theater with all the senses
© Thilo Endres
25 Mar 2024
From the very beginning, Christina Beeck and Frieder Schmitz-Beeck and their newly founded Theater im Wiesengässle in Mundingen have relied on a growing network of local cultural partners who they work with to implement educational theater projects in the region. For the "Theater mit allen Sinnen" (Theater with all the Senses) project, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program, a partnership was formed with the inclusive Schmiechtal Kindergarten and the Wenzelstein neighborhood project of the Ehingen branch of the charity Caritas Ulm-Alb-Donau.
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On the edge, but right in the middle
© Astrid Rashed
11 Mar 2024
In the Oderbruch region of Brandenburg, the local Theater am Rand, the Altreetz elementary school and the Brodowin eco-village have joined forces to expand the range of activities for disadvantaged young people in the region – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program. The artistic director, actress Astrid Rashed, shares a few thoughts from the project.
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The reinterpretation of urban space into a playing field
© Moritz Walliser
23 Feb 2024
The project "Overcome Reality Young Star Edition" – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program – works with its participants to seek new paths into their own city and interweaves different parts of Hamburg through movement. The partners Kunstwerk e.V., Parkour Creation and Kulturagent*innen Hamburg have joined forces to achieve this. Rica Blunck, an artist involved in the project, shares her impressions.
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Peatland – Theater on a train
© Juliane Lenssen, Jens Erwin Siemssen
16 Feb 2024
The ensemble Das Letzte Kleinod has been performing theater in their ocean blue train for many years. For the youth project Peatland – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste within the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program – they teamed up with the Deinster Bahnhof development association and the Elbe-Weser Railroads and Transport Company and invited children and young people, both those with and without experience as refugees, to explore the surrounding area on their train. Artists Jens-Erwin Siemssen and Juliane Lenssen share their experiences from the project.
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The Kulturkolchose theater workshop
© Heike Sählbrandt, Wanda Möller
05 Feb 2024
There was plenty of demand from young people for local cultural activities. The Kulturkolchose Lehsten association, together with the Möllenhagen parish and the Wendorf children's castle, quickly initiated two theater workshops – supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program. Initiator Steffi Kühn reports on the two projects.
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Seven Pilllars It Is…
© Benjamin Krieg
30 Jan 2024
The new support architecture of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. Elena Philipp in a conversation with the program director Steffen Klewar.
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"There are still many of us"
© Alexandra Polina
06 Dec 2023
At the B.A.L.L. at Kampnagel, there was intense discussion about how to meet the challenges of the present. Many artists also offered their opinions on how to deal with right-wing populist politics and right-wing extremist dangers. An approach to resistant arts.
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Global Village Projects 2023 - Eine Dokumentation (Audiodeskription)
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Global Village Projects 2023 - Eine Dokumentation
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Confrontations with reality
© Dorothea Tuch
22 Nov 2023
Artistic director Wagner Carvalho, artist Magda Korsinsky, and dramaturge Fabian Larsson from Ballhaus Naunynstraße in conversation with Christine Wahl on the award of the Theaterpreis des Bundes 2023.
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New connections, new narrative forms
© Alexandra Polina
17 Nov 2023
At the closing event of the Bundesweite Artist Labs 2023 (B.A.L.L.), it became clear just how committed the independent theater scene is to exchanging ideas with each other and with the audience – and how it cultivates mindful interaction with each other in challenging times.
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Thuringia? No problem!
© Dorothea Tuch
15 Nov 2023
The creative director and director Lizzy Timmers, the actress Pina Bergemann and the dramaturge Hannah Baumann from the Theaterhaus Jena in conversation with Christine Wahl about the award of the Theaterpreis des Bundes in the category of municipal and state theaters.
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"Theater is not an instruction manual"
© Festival El Aleph Teatro UNAM
14 Nov 2023
Rimini Protokoll presented the production "Konferenz der Abwesenden" at the B.A.L.L. at Kampnagel. Annette Stiekele spoke to Daniel Wetzel, who, together with Stefan Kaegi and Helgard Haug, has been inviting audiences to exciting theatrical experiments for the last 20 years.
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