Performing Arts Fund

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The Darstellende Künste Fund is a German federal culture promotion fund founded in Bonn in 1985 . Since 1987 he has been promoting professionally working artists and collectives from all branches of the performing arts nationwide . It has been based in Berlin since 2010 .

Funding programs and priorities

The fund offers four application deadlines and three funding programs (project, initial and conceptual plans) within which artists and groups can submit their projects for planned productions or research. An elected board of trustees, consisting of representatives from cultural institutions, production houses, festivals, associations and artists, selects from these applications major plans, individual projects and project concepts that deal with socially relevant topics or are artistically significant. The fund takes into account all fields and branches of the performing arts, including drama , music theater , dance , puppet and object theater, performance and theater for young audiences.

With additional special programs such as HOMEBASE, KONFIGURATION or GLOBAL VILLAGE LABS, the fund addresses social challenges and topics such as diversity , digitization , art in rural areas and the further development of aesthetic and artistic formats. In doing so, he shows the artistic and social relevance of the freely producing arts and creates opportunities for qualification and further development. The fund receives its grants for the promotion of art and culture from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media .

The fund not only supports projects, but is also a service and consulting partner for independent artists, collectives and institutions.

In addition, the fund organizes an annual colloquium in order to discuss issues relating to the further development of the fine performing arts and their structural framework with regard to funding, cultural policy and independent production with artists and sponsors . In order to enable theoretical and practical discussions with this event, the colloquium takes place within the framework of a festival, such as in 2017 in Hamburg for the festival “ Theater der Welt ” and in 2019 in Munich for the festival “ Politics in the free theater ”.

In addition, the fund assumes the role of mediator and co-creator between cultural policy and artists, for example through the "Federal Forum", which it organizes together with the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts , and which is a platform in the "Alliance for the independent performing arts" the nationwide funding landscape. The Federal Forum brings artists and actors together with representatives of funding institutions in order to discuss the content-related and structural orientation for transnational initiatives as well as nationwide funding institutions of the fine performing arts and to establish a network.

The Performing Arts Fund also honors outstanding works, collectives and artists in the performing arts with the Tabori Prize , which is awarded annually to outstanding professional independent ensembles and artists. It is the highest award in the fine performing arts.

Member associations

Board of Directors and Management

literature

  • Günter Jeschonnek (ed.): Performing arts in public space. Transformations of non-places and aesthetic interventions. Berlin: 2016, ISBN 978-3-95749-087-2
  • Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts, Fund for Performing Arts: Federal Forum 2017 - Alliance for Independent Performing Arts. Berlin: 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts, Performing Arts Fund (ed.): Documentation FEDERAL FORUM I . Berlin 2018.