Blog
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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C the Unseen - Vlog zur Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz 2025
© Lora Ganeva + Rike Oehlrich
30 Jul 2025
Die Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz 2025 hat sich das Motto "C the Unseen" gegeben. Lora Ganeva und Rike Oehlrich haben Passant*innen in den Straßen Chemnitz nach ihrem Verständnis des Slogans gefragt.
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Where East German mopeds and pedigree poodles meet
© Silvan Hagenbrock
30 Jul 2025
Parking spaces, workshops and social meeting places – the garage yards in Chemnitz are much more than ordinary car parks. Built in the GDR era, they exude a feeling that’s often hard to find these days: a genuine sense of community. As part of the city’s Capital of Culture program, the garage owners are opening their wooden doors to the public and to art. A reportage by Ella Rendtorff
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C the bubble, C the gap, C the treasure
© Dorothea Tuch
30 Jul 2025
Chemnitz – a European Capital of Culture caught between millions in funding and cuts to the arts. The Fonds Darstellende Künste is showing “DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN” (“The Art of Staying Many ”) here. A film that aims to strengthen the arts scene and protect it from division, but ends up bursting its own bubble.
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Does art only deserve freedom when it is right?
© Dorothea Tuch
04 Jun 2025
What is the purpose of art? What can it mean to society? Why must it be free and remain so? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung features writer Simon Strauß finds answers to these questions in the works of the Italian director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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German Winter
© Dorothea Tuch
02 Jun 2025
Sasha Marianna Salzmann's contribution tells the stories of those people who are exposed to racism in the midst of our society and builds a bridge from the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market to Salzmann's own youth and the poetry of May Ayim.
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The last border for the AfD
© Dorothea Tuch
27 May 2025
Does history always repeat itself? In his keynote speech “The last border for the AfD,” action artist Philipp Ruch analyses the socio-political situation and appeals to civil society, which dared to rise up in the GDR in 1989 and thus brought about radical change.
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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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Transformationsinfarkt
© Benjamin Krieg
10 Feb 2025
Nuremberg, 07. February 2025. From the opening speech of the annual meeting of the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft by Holger Bergmann, managing director of the Fonds Darstellende Künste
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Perspektive 2025!
13 Jan 2025
The Fonds will receive further funding from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media for the funding year 2025. A total of 7.6 million euros will be available to support the independent performing arts - a strong signal in challenging times. This means that the cut is less than initially announced. Managing Director Holger Bergmann explains the background, consequences and associated prospects for the Fonds in a video statement.
We provide a comprehensive review of the 2025 budget cuts here.
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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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Spielräume für Kunst und Gesellschaft
21 Nov 2024
Kürzungen beim Bund und nun in den Ländern Thüringen, Berlin, NRW und Niedersachsen sowie in Städten wie München, Dresden und Köln. Wieso ist dieser Umgang mit der Kultur in unterschiedlichen Regierungskonstellationen gerade so en Vogue? - Holger Bergmann gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Fördersituation des Fonds und erste Konsequenzen für die Künste.
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Was ist das Spiel mit der Welt?
© Magdalena Emmerig
19 Nov 2024
Am 13. November 2024 hat ein breites Bündnis aus der Berliner Kulturlandschaft zum öffentlichen Protest gegen die geplanten Kürzungen im Berliner Kulturhaushalt aufgerufen. Gegen die Kürzungen sprach sich auch Heinrich Horwitz als Initiator*in der Petition „An den Freien Künsten zu sparen, kostet zu viel“ in einer Rede aus – hier zum Nachlesen:
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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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Du und ich
© Sebastian Bolesch
05 Nov 2024
You and I. Parallel life worlds and paths that never crossed and couldn't be more different. - The writer Deniz Utlu gave this lecture as part of “DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN” on August 24, 2024 at the Kunstfest Weimar.
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How To Stay
© Sebastian Bolesch
29 Oct 2024
On the train – we always buy a ticket. In the supermarket – we come without a backpack. In the park – we won’t walk too fast. In the night – we won’t cover our faces. At the bank – we won’t raise our voices. – Writer Sivan Ben Yishai 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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