German Cultural Council

This article describes the German organization. For the German Cultural Council in Namibia, see German Cultural Council (Namibia) .

German Cultural Council
legal form	non-profit registered association
founding	1981
Seat	Berlin
precursor	Working Group of the German Cultural Council
purpose	Central association of federal cultural associations
Chair	Susanne Keuchel
Managing directors	Olaf Zimmermann
sales	917,879 euros (2017)
Employees	8 (2017)
Volunteers	400 (2017)
Members	258 (2018)
Website	www.kulturrat.de

The German Cultural Council e. V. is the umbrella organization of German cultural associations and is based in Berlin .

It sees itself as a partner of the policy and administration of the Federal , the country and the European Union in all the individual divisions of the German Cultural Council e. V. overarching cultural policy matters. The purpose is to bring cross-sectoral issues nationwide into the cultural-political discussion at all levels.

history

The association was founded in 1981 as a politically independent working group of cultural and media political organizations and institutions of national importance. In 1995 the working group was transformed into the fixed and more capable structure of a non-profit association . As early as 1981 it was formulated that the German Cultural Council should become an “umbrella organization of umbrella associations”. Two decades later it became the recognized umbrella organization of the federal cultural associations.

259 federal cultural associations and organizations have joined the German Cultural Council in eight sections.

The German Cultural Council has been awarding the cultural penny since 1992. The award generally honors people who have distinguished themselves through outstanding, cross-disciplinary, long-term cultural and political achievements.

The newspaper of the German Cultural Council, Politics & Culture , has been published since 2002 to inform the public about topics of cultural policy and from 2012 to 2019 the association published the Rote Liste Kultur in order to refer to threatened or already closed cultural institutions such as theaters, museums, To draw the public's attention to initiatives, associations, programs or film houses. In analogy about the Red List of endangered species or the Red List of endangered world heritage of UNESCO is to be so always made to date on the creeping degradation attention. It was published in the in-house magazine Politik & Kultur, published by Olaf Zimmermann and Theo Geißler, until April 2018.

In 2016, on the initiative of the German Cultural Council , the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs founded the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media , The Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration and the German Kulturrat the initiative cultural integration . Representatives from civil society, social partners, churches and religious communities, the media, the federal states and municipalities joined in to discuss together what contribution culture can make to integration.

In 2017, the German Cultural Council launched the “Women in Culture & Media” project office. Its initiation goes back to the study of the same name, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media , by the German Cultural Council, which shows on almost 500 pages that it is not yet possible to speak of gender equality in the field of culture and media. The project office aims to support the discourse on gender equality and to back it up with the implementation of concrete measures.

The “Sustainability & Culture” project office was set up in September 2018 with the support of the Council for Sustainable Development in cooperation with the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) . The aim of the two-year campaign is to build a bridge between the sustainability discourse in the field of nature and the environment and debates on cultural policy.

structure

The association is supported by eight sections , structured according to technical aspects , which in turn are composed of a total of 258 federal associations:

• German Music Council
• Performing Arts and Dance Council
• German Literature Conference
• German Art Council
• Council for Building Culture and Monument Culture
• German design day
• German Media Council - Film, Radio and Audiovisual Media
• Council for Socioculture and Cultural Education

Each of these eight independent sections is in the speakers' council and in the general assembly of the German Cultural Council e. V., the annual plenary session . The three- member board of the speakers 'council, consisting of a president and two vice-presidents, is elected from among the speakers' council for a period of 3 years . From 2001 to 2013 Max Fuchs was the chairman of the speakers' council. From March 12, 2013 to March 20, 2019, Christian Höppner served as honorary president. On March 20, 2019, the Speaker Council of the German Cultural Council elected Susanne Keuchel to succeed Christian Höppner as President. Ulrike Liedtke (German Music Council) and Boris Kochan (German Design Day) were elected Vice Presidents .

Olaf Zimmermann has been the managing director since 1997.

The German Cultural Council is a member of the European Movement Network .

Publications

With its publications, the German Cultural Council presents the content and focus of its own work. The published publications of the German Cultural Council provide essential basics, further information and creative suggestions for the theory and practice of cultural policy.

Politics & Culture

To inform the public, the newspaper Politik & Kultur appeared six times a year until 2018 and since 2019 ten times a year in a print edition and in an online edition. The newspaper of the German Cultural Council is published by Olaf Zimmermann and Theo Geißler . It reports on cultural-political issues and also dedicates each issue to a current topic. Politics & Culture are enclosed at irregular intervals with dossiers and supplements that deal with a particular topic in detail.

Books

• Olaf Zimmermann and Theo Geißler (eds.): Colonialism Debate: Inventory and Consequences (From Politics & Culture). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947308-18-7
• Olaf Zimmermann and Theo Geißler (eds.): Debate on values: From leading culture to cultural integration. German Cultural Council, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947308-06-4 .

• Olaf Zimmermann and Theo Geißler (eds.): The third pillar: Foreign cultural and educational policy (from politics & culture). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947308-08-8 .
• Olaf Zimmermann (Ed.): Kissed awake: 20 years of new federal cultural policy 1998–2018, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947308-10-1 .
• Gabriele Schulz , Carolin Ries , Olaf Zimmermann, Theresa Brüheim , Barbara Haack , Ruth Sandforth , Friederike Wapler : Women in Culture and Media. An overview of current trends, developments and proposed solutions, Deutscher Kulturrat, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-934868-41-0 .
• Gabriele Schulz, Olaf Zimmermann and Rainer Hufnagel : Labor market culture - On the economic and social situation in cultural professions, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-934868-30-4 .
• Deutscher Kulturrat (Ed.): Cultural Education: Tasks in Change, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-934868-18-2 .
• German Cultural Council (Ed.): The WDR as a cultural actor: Claim - Expectation - Reality, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-934868-22-9 .
• Olaf Zimmermann, Gabriele Schulz and Stefanie Ernst (eds.): Future culture industry - between artistry and creative industries, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89861-939-4 .
• Deutscher Kulturrat (Ed.): Cultural education in the educational reform discussion : Conception of cultural education III, Berlin, 2008, ISBN 3-934868-11-8
• Olaf Zimmermann and Gabriele Schulz (eds.): Artists' Social Insurance Act - Background and Current Requirements, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020400-5 .

Further studies appeared in the series From Politics & Culture . They can be downloaded as PDF from the website of the German Cultural Council.

Award cultural penny

Since 1992, the association has been honoring personalities or institutes who have rendered outstanding services to culture in Germany every year. The “Kulturgroschen” is the highest award that the German Cultural Council bestows for cultural-political and cultural engagement.

• 1992 Sieghardt von Köckritz , Head of the Culture Department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior
• 1993 Regine Hildebrandt , Minister for Labor and Social Affairs of the State of Brandenburg
• 1994 Colette Flesch , Director General of the Directorate General for Culture and Education of the EU Commission
• 1995 3 sat
• 1996 Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen
• 1997 Hannelore Jouly , director of the Stuttgart City Library
• 1998 Klaus Maurice , General Secretary of the Kulturstiftung der Länder
• 1999 Klaus Staeck , artist, President of the Berlin Academy of the Arts (since April 2006)
• 2000 Rita Süssmuth , former President of the Bundestag D.
• 2001 Karl Ganser , head of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (Ganser does not accept the cultural coin from the German Cultural Council in protest against the destruction of the Vockerode industrial monument.)
• 2002 Bernhard Freiherr von Loeffelholz
• 2003 William Forsythe , Director Ballet Frankfurt
• 2004 Johannes Rau , former Federal President D.
• 2006 Daniel Barenboim , general music director of the Berlin Linden Opera
• 2007 Fritz Pleitgen , former director of West German Broadcasting
• 2008 Klaus-Dieter Lehmann , Head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (1999–2008) and Head of the Goethe Institute (since April 2008)
• 2009 Edgar Reitz , author, director
• 2010 Erich Loest , writer
• 2011 Wolfgang Huber , theologian
• 2012 Ernst Elitz , former director of DeutschlandRadio
• In 2013, due to the illness of the award winner Bernd Neumann , the award was postponed to 2014.
• 2014 Bernd Neumann , CDU cultural politician and former Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
• 2015 July Zeh , writer
• 2016 Wolfgang Thierse , former President and Vice President of the German Bundestag
• 2017 Petra Roth
• 2018 Norbert Lammert
• 2019 Gerhart Rudolf Baum

PUK journalist award

The undoped award was given annually from 2004 to 2012 by the newspaper “ Politik und Kultur” of the German Cultural Council to journalists who have made a name for themselves “for communicating cultural-political issues in a generally understandable way”.

• 2012
  • Christian Eger (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung)
  • Fredy Gareis for the report A Picasso for Palestine , published in the ZEIT dossier
  • Birgit Schulz for the report Halbmond über Köln , broadcast by WDR / ARTE
• 2011
  • Either Broder - The Germany Safari (Hessischer Rundfunk)
  • Reinhard Baumgarten for his radio feature series Faces of Islam
  • Daniel Gräfe for his article What Was Left of the East - 20 Years of Reunification; a personal journey through time through an unfinished country
  • Peter Scharff (journalist) for Schockbilder - The man who makes politics with advertising
  • Editor KAKADU ( Deutschlandradio Kultur )
  • Radio Corax
• 2010
  • Martin Kotynek , Hans Leyendecker and Nicolas Richter (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
  • Ulrike Migdal freelance radio journalist
  • Claudia and Günter Wallbrecht freelance television journalists
• 2009
  • Martin Kotynek , Hans Leyendecker and Nicolas Richter , Süddeutsche Zeitung, for exposing the NDR script scandal
  • Ulrike Migdal free radio journalist for her article "I am sending you kisses 155 and 398 Greetings", that of 19 May 2009 Germany radio has been sent
  • Claudia and Günter Wallbrecht , freelance television journalists for their NDR contribution “I think they sing so weird. Opera for Beginners ”. This shows how cultural education can be conveyed in a theater beyond event projects.
  • The features section of the Munich tabloid tz receives recognition from the jury for its series of ballads.
• 2008
  • " Zündfunk " editorial staff of Bayerischer Rundfunk (radio).
  • Eckhard Fuhr from the newspaper "Die Welt"
  • Stefan Koldehoff from Deutschlandfunk
• 2007
  • Günter Beyer (freelance journalist) for the radio report “Fool's hands or: the signs on the wall. A show about graffiti ”.
  • Heribert Prantl (Süddeutsche Zeitung) for the preparation of cultural and political relevant legal issues so that they are accessible to a wider audience.
  • Carola Wedel (3sat / ZDF) for the television program “Raubgut und Lootkunst ” from the series “The lost treasures of the Museum Island”.
  • the features section of the Hamburger Abendblatt for its continuous cultural and political reporting in the independent feature section of a regional newspaper
• 2006
  • Wilfried Mommert , dpa
  • Tamara Tischendorf , features editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• 2005
  • Heinrich Wefing , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  • The editorial team of the program Radiofeuilleton from Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • Eduard Erne (author), Eva Hassel-von Pock (editor) for the three-part show “Kunst-Hartz” in KulturZeit on 3sat
• 2004
  • Birgit Walter , Berliner Zeitung

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About us. In: kulturrat.de. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ About Us | German Cultural Council. Accessed March 7, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ German Cultural Council presents endangered cultural institutions in Germany , info from July 3, 2012 ( memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on kulturrat.de
4. ↑ Initiators. In: Initiative Kulturelle Integration. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ Editor: Women in Culture & Media | German Cultural Council. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German). 
6. ↑ Editor 2: Sustainability & Culture | German Cultural Council. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German). 
7. ^ German Culture Council press release of March 13, 2013 Christian Höppner new President of the German Culture Council. Spokesman's Council elects the Presidium of the German Cultural Council for the next three years ( memento from February 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on kulturrat.de, accessed on March 13, 2013
8. ↑ Deutscher Kulturrat press release of March 20, 2019: German Cultural Council: New board elected , accessed on March 20, 2019
9. ↑ Politics and Culture - newspaper of the German Cultural Council. Retrieved September 20, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Books , accessed November 2, 2019.
11. ↑ Cultural Policy Prize | German Cultural Council. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German). 
12. ↑ What is the cultural penny? ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturrat.de 
13. ↑ Homepage of the German Cultural Council ( Memento of the original dated May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 24, 2012. 
14. ^ Homepage of the German Cultural Council Press releases from October 22, 2013: Thank you very much, Bernd Neumann. German Cultural Council thanks Bernd Neumann for eight successful years and awards him the cultural penny in December ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 24, 2013 
15. ↑ German Cultural Council press releases from September 8, 2015: Kulturgroschen 2016: German Cultural Council honors Wolfgang Thierse ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 9, 2015 
16. ↑ German Cultural Council press release of March 27, 2017: Petra Roth, retired Lord Mayor, receives cultural penny 2017 from the German Cultural Council , accessed on March 27, 2017
17. ↑ Norbert Lammert receives Kulturgroschen , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, October 25, 2017, accessed on October 25, 2017
18. ↑ puk journalist award 2012: Picasso in Palestine , cultural policy in Saxony-Anhalt and half moon over Cologne ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturrat.de 
19. ↑ puk Journalist Award 2011: Either Broder, Faces of Islam, Kakadu, Radio Corax, ... ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturrat.de 
20. ↑ puk journalist award 2010: Uncovering the NDR script scandal a. a. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturrat.de 
21. ↑ puk journalist award 2010: Uncovering the NDR script scandal a. a. ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturrat.de 
22. ↑ Tomorrow: Fuhr, Koldehoff and the Zündfunk editorial team receive puk journalists' award ( memento of the original from November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturrat.de 
23. ↑ puk Journalist Prize 2007: Honor for cultural policy journalists ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ↑ Laudation for the PUK Prize Winners 2006 ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ↑ Laureate of the puk Journalist Award 2005 ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.