Cultural group of the German economy

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In 1951 Cologne , founded Cultural Committee of German Business within the BDI e. V. is a non-profit association based in Berlin . Its offices are in the BDI building , from which the association is institutionally and personally independent.

activity

The culture group is the only supraregional institution for entrepreneurial cultural promotion in Germany. With the membership fees and donations from its approximately 450 members - companies and entrepreneurs - the association supports talented young artists in the fields of architecture, visual arts, literature and music. The culture group also sees itself as a communicative interface between business and culture. In addition to promoting artists, he is also active in advising on cultural funding or in the field of cultural-political lobbying.

organization

Members of the board of the cultural group (status: 2015):

Chair of the committees:

Chair of the working groups:

Managing Director (since March 2015):

tasks

Support through awards :
The culture group understands the direct patronage of artists in four areas - architecture, fine arts , literature and music - as its original task .
The winners of the culture prizes include Heinrich Böll , Paul Celan Günter Grass , Thomas Bernhard , Rosemarie Trockel , Olaf Metzel , Ingeborg Bachmann , Christoph Eschenbach , Georg Baselitz , Nino Haratiwili , Daniel Kehlmann , Orhan Pamuk , Clemens J. Setz , Herbert Spitzenberger . Claudia Hamm received the 2016 literary prize of the German Business Cultural Association in the translation section.

Service & Advice :
The culture group wants to encourage initiatives in its working groups to improve the interaction between culture and business. Once a year he therefore awards z. B. the German Culture Promotion Prize or the Bronnbacher Scholarship , a recruitment program for cultural competence. In addition, he is available to his members and interested third parties as a discussion and advisory partner at the interface between business and culture. a. in matters of cultural funding or corporate collecting.

Cultural-
political activities : The Kulturkreis wants to take on a cultural-political spokesman role for the German economy by supporting artists and creative people in the relevant areas of cultural and economic life in Germany.

Bronnbacher scholarship

The Cultural Education Working Group awards the Bronnbacher Scholarship to the University of Mannheim (since 2004), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (since 2017, cooperation with Mannheim) and the University of Bochum (2007 to 2011). The aim of the program is to introduce selected students from various disciplines to contemporary art and culture for two semesters in addition to their actual subject studies - and thus to strengthen their cultural and creative skills.

Publications

The Kulturkreis regularly publishes the KulturkreisBrief (number 57 appeared in July 2015).

  • Corporate culture promotion in Germany. Results of a comprehensive study of the culture of the German economy in the BDI. Ed .: Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI eV, Berlin 2009
  • Annual ring - yearbook for modern art. Ed .: Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI eV / Brigitte Oetker, Cologne since 1953
  • Support and Friends Groups of Culture in Germany. Results of a comprehensive study of the culture of the German economy. Ed .: Welling, A .; Roll, S .; von Reden, F .; Otten, M .; Christ, M .; Frucht, S., Berlin 2007
  • Company and Society - a series of handbooks from the culture group in the BDI eV Handbook Economy and Culture - Forms and facts of entrepreneurial cultural promotion Ed .: Litzel, S .; Loock, F .; Brackert, A., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003
  • Corporate Citizenship - Social commitment by companies in Germany. Ed .: André Habisch, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003
  • Patrons, founders and sponsors. Fifty years of the culture group of the German economy in the BDI - a model of cultural promotion , Hatje Cantz-Verlag, ed .: Walter Grasskamp and Wolfgang Ullrich, Ostfildern 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for Applied Cultural Studies and General Studies; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Bronnbacher scholarship at KIT. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .