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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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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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Verantwortung übernehmen: Wer vertritt wen und wie?
© 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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Don't isolate yourselves
© Sebastian Bolesch
11 Sep 2025
In this era of austerity and a shift to the right, isolation is the wrong tactic at the wrong time, according to cultural journalist Janis El-Bira, who calls for unity. An assessment of the current situation in the independent performing arts.
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Perhaps we’re the minority after all.
© Christian Knieps
05 Sep 2025
What to do when so much speaks against the liberal arts? A plea for a reversal of the idea of wanting to reach everyone. - Cultural journalist Tobi Müller on the technological, political, and artistic reasons why thinking in terms of large numbers and majorities has even taken hold in the world of subsidized art. An uncomfortable essay in uncomfortable times in the run-up to the “BUNDESTREFFEN25 der Freien Darstellenden Künste”.
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