Federal Cultural Foundation

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Federal Cultural Foundation
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legal form Foundation (Germany)
founding January 23, 2002
founder Federal Republic of Germany
Seat Halle (Saale)
purpose Cultural promotion
Chair Hortensia Völckers , Kirsten Haß
sales 39,982,941 euros (2018)
Foundation capital 269,061 euros (2018)
Website www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
Headquarters of the Federal Cultural Foundation in Halle (Saale)

The Federal Cultural Foundation is a foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany initiated by the then Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Julian Nida-Rümelin and established on March 21, 2002 with its seat in Halle (Saale) .

The foundation is one of the largest publicly funded cultural foundations in Europe. With a regular annual budget of 35 million euros from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, it has funded over 3,000 contemporary culture projects. The board consists of the artistic director Hortensia Völckers and the administrative director Kirsten Haß.

The motivation for founding the foundation lay in the increasingly clear realization, especially after German reunification , that certain cultural projects and institutions are of national importance and that their funding should, sensibly, also lie with the federal government, not only with the federal state in whose territory the project or the institution happens to reside.

Since its establishment, the foundation has been based on the premises of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale. In October 2012, Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the new building for the cultural foundation at Franckeplatz 2, which was designed by the Munich architects Dannheimer & Joos.

Goal setting

According to the statutes, the foundation is supposed to promote art and culture within the scope of federal competence, which distinguishes it from the cultural foundation of the federal states . The focus is on innovative projects in an international context. Many funded projects can therefore be seen in Germany and abroad. It is not possible to fund projects that only take place abroad.

Project funding

In the area of ​​“General Project Funding”, cultural workers and institutions from Germany and abroad can apply for funding for projects from all artistic fields, if these are in an international context and provide new artistic impulses.

An interdisciplinary jury meets twice a year, which selects projects from the submitted applications and recommends funding to the Board of the Cultural Foundation. Applicants must observe certain requirements, such as the application amount of at least 50,000 euros and a secured share of own funds of 20 percent. The Board of Directors of the Cultural Foundation decides on the funding of applications up to 250,000 euros, applications with a higher funding amount are decided by the Board of Trustees. The application deadline for submitting funding applications is January 31 and July 31, respectively.

Funding takes place in the following categories:

Programs

The foundation also deals with the cultural dimension of social developments and designs its own programs and events for this purpose. In the first ten years, milestones could be set with programs such as Shrinking Cities , Migration , Tanzplan , Heimspiel Fund (new urban themes in the theater), Central and Eastern Europe , An instrument for every child or work in the future .

The foundation is currently funding programs on the following topics:

  • Culture of mediation
  • Cultural Aspects of German Reunification
  • Culture of sustainability
  • Cultural heritage
  • Change museums
  • Cooperations in the theater (double pass)
  • German-African cooperation
  • Diversity and New Urban Society
  • digitalization
  • Urban and countryside

Bauhaus 2019 In 2019 the Bauhaus celebrates its 100th anniversary. On this occasion, the cultural foundation is enabling an extensive program with the international focus on Bauhaus 2019, in which the historical heritage, the international impact and the contemporary relevance of the Bauhaus are to be shown nationwide.

hochdrei - changing city libraries With this program, the Federal Cultural Foundation wants to strengthen city libraries in their role as cooperative and participation-oriented cultural locations. The program aims to create space for unconventional ideas and creative formats that will enable city libraries to establish themselves as open meeting places in the long term.

360 ° - Fund for Cultures of the New Urban Society The program promotes diversity in the cultural sector and calls on urban cultural institutions to look at the whole diversity of the migrant society. To this end, it supports change processes in the areas of personnel, program and audience development, which can develop model-like charisma nationwide.

Culture digital The program promotes the development and implementation of digital projects in cultural institutions. The program aims to support them in shaping the digital possibilities and challenges of the present in a self-determined and public-good-oriented manner and in meeting them creatively, but also critically.

Museum Global The program supports art museums in the targeted internationalization of their collection, research and exhibition practices.

TRAFO - Models for Culture in Transition With the program TRAFO - Models for Culture in Transition , the Federal Cultural Foundation is for the first time targeting rural regions and smaller communities with their cultural offerings in order to initiate transformation processes and strengthen cultural institutions.

City companions In order to be able to depict the increasingly complex everyday life and the lifestyle of our cities in the future, it is becoming more and more important for city museums to establish networks and work together with partners on current issues of urban society: How do we want to live? How do we use our cities and who has what rights to the city and its design? The City Companions funding initiative aims to encourage city museums to work more closely in partnerships and encourage urban society to participate in museum work.

RomArchive The Federal Cultural Foundation is promoting the establishment of a digital archive for Sinti and Roma art. RomArchive is to become an internationally accessible place that makes the cultures and stories of the Sinti and Roma visible. Accompanied by information and cultural events, a collection of international art of all genres will be archived from 2015 to 2019, expanded to include contemporary historical documents and scientific positions.

lab.Bode The cultural foundation wants to give as many children and young people as possible access to art and culture. The lab.Bode tests with a mediation laboratory at the Bode Museum in Berlin and a nationwide volunteer program what distinguishes mediation work in museums and what it can achieve.

Cultural agents for creative schools In the model program cultural agents for creative schools, pupils, teachers, artists, cultural agents and cultural institutions jointly develop a diverse range of cultural education at schools. The program aims to arouse curiosity about art in children and young people and impart more knowledge about art and culture. 46 cultural agents began their work in the 2011/2012 school year at a total of 138 schools in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia.

Fund New Lands In 2002 the fund was set up to strengthen civic engagement for culture in the new federal states . The aim of this fund, which will run until 2020, is the structural further development and professionalization of cultural work in East Germany. By promoting civic engagement in cultural institutions, the foundation would like to contribute to the bond between people and their region.

New clients A comprehensive and long-term civic engagement is also the focus of the New Client program, in which local initiatives get in contact with internationally renowned artists in order to commission a work.

Tanzfonds Erbe The aesthetic diversity of the dance scene in Germany is the result of over 100 years of development. Against this background, the Federal Cultural Foundation set up a fund with 3.5 million euros for the cultural heritage of dance in Germany in 2011. By 2013, the fund was to lay the foundation for a systematic and exemplary approach to the history of modern dance in Germany. The funding was extended to a further four years in 2014.

Fund TANZLAND With the Fund TANZLAND, the cultural foundation would like to expand the range of contemporary dance productions in small and medium-sized cities or make them possible in the first place.

Fellowship Internationales Museum In June 2011 the foundation launched the Fellowship Internationales Museum initiative. She wanted to enable museums and public collections in Germany to bring top-class young scientists and curators from abroad to her home.

Double pass This fund supports the cooperation of independent groups and permanent dance and theater houses. The Federal Cultural Foundation would like to encourage the independent scenes and theater institutions in Germany to try out new forms of cooperation and artistic production.

TURN The international thematic focus Africa is dedicated to German-African cultural relations. The TURN fund was set up for this purpose, promoting artistic exchange and cooperation between German and African artists and institutions. The purpose of the fund is to encourage the broadest possible engagement with artistic creation in African countries, supported by many institutions in Germany. German cultural institutions of all branches are called upon to try out new forms of artistic cooperation with African partners.

World Cinema Fund The foundation supports the World Cinema Fund (WCF), a worldwide unique model of cooperation between German film producers and directors from the key regions of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

With projects in the field of 'art of mediation', the cultural foundation would like to help give many people access to art and culture. The projects are intended to enable new forms of communication to be tested and to strengthen social responsibility. The New Music network , the model programs for every child an instrument and cultural agents for creative schools as well as the partner dance fund were able to initiate developments in the cultural education landscape.

In addition, the foundation tries to motivate partners and interested institutions to deal with ecological issues and sustainable working methods. With its program focus on 'Culture of Sustainability', it has launched a number of its own initiative projects (e.g. training on the art of living or sustainability! ) And funded projects that deal with these topics.

The foundation has committed itself to an environmental program that obliges it to continuously improve its environmental behavior. On May 30, 2012, the Federal Cultural Foundation was awarded the EMAS certificate for ecological management. The certificate is an award for organizations that voluntarily meet the requirements of the EC Eco Audit Regulation.

Cultural political positioning

The establishment led to a cultural-political dispute between the federal government and the federal states , since the majority of the federal states saw the foundation as competition for the constitutionally guaranteed cultural sovereignty of the federal states. A solution to the conflict in the course of the negotiations on the federalism reform in 2004 could no longer be found after their failure. In December 2006, the incumbent chairmen of the foundation council, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann (Federal Government) and Prime Minister Christian Wulff (federal states), agreed not to want to make any further attempts to merge the two foundations during the current legislative period. The Federal Cultural Foundation and the State Cultural Foundation regularly support joint exhibition projects that fit the profile of both foundations.

Board of Trustees, Jury and Advisory Board

The Board of Trustees makes the key decisions for the content orientation, in particular the focus of funding, and the structure of the cultural foundation. The Board of Trustees, which currently consists of 14 members, reflects the levels of political decision-making that were decisive for the establishment of the foundation. The projects of the Federal Cultural Foundation are approved on the basis of jury proposals and decided at meetings of the Foundation Council. The jury is made up of experts from the various artistic fields and decides on the applications in general project funding. The foundation's advisory board gives recommendations on the thematic priorities of the foundation's activities. Personalities from culture, art, business, science and politics are represented in it.

Culture Fund and Lighthouses

The foundation supports artistic productions and grants project funding for current projects that can be clearly assigned to the international context or fall within another indisputable federal funding competence. In addition to general project funding, a large number of projects are generated by the cultural foundation's own programs and funding funds. The foundation maintains a website on which it provides information about the current and past funded projects.

From 2004 to 2015 the foundation sponsored the German cultural funding fund. Since January 2016, the funds have again been the direct responsibility of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The funds manage themselves, each have their own programs and offer grants and prizes.

The foundation enables outstanding cultural institutions and festivals to plan for several years through its funding. These major projects include:

magazine

Magazine # 23 of the Federal Cultural Foundation

The foundation's magazine appears every six months and aims to provide an up-to-date and multifaceted insight into the foundation's work. Current funded projects and programs are presented, accompanied by essays by international authors, interviews, photo series or literary texts. The contributions come from artists, scientists, philosophers and curators. The most recent issues of the magazine each had a thematic focus. Magazine # 21 dealt with war. Issue # 22 focused on the African continent. Issue # 23 was dedicated to projects and topics related to nature and animals. Magazine # 24 dealt with the topic of religion. The current magazine # 31 (autumn / winter 2018) with its thematic focus on the country draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of cultural production in rural areas. The magazine is also offered online and as an e-paper.

New building

On the grounds of the Francke Foundations, the new building for the headquarters of the Federal Cultural Foundation was built according to the plans of the Munich architects Dannheimer & Joos. The building combines the goals of the foundation with contemporary building culture and energy-efficient, sustainable technology and fits into the existing historic row of houses of the Francke Foundations. These include ventilation boxes with heat recovery, triple glazing, a photovoltaic system on the roof and insulation for the new building. The new building received one of five awards on June 12, 2013 as part of the 2013 German Architecture Prize.

literature

  • Armin Zwei : Art care case. In: Federal Cultural Foundation. Magazine April 2007. p. 9: “Cultural Heritage”.
  • Ingo Diehl, Friederike Lampert (Hrsg.): Tanztechniken 2010 - Tanzplan Deutschland. Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-89487-412-4 .
  • Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Ed.): Time donations. Cultural engagement in the new federal states. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2010, ISBN 978-3-89812-707-3 .
  • Katharina Narbutovic, Susanne Stemmler (ed.): About the art of living - utopias after the crisis. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46273-7 .
  • Philipp Oswalt (Ed.): Shrinking cities. Volume 1: International Inquiry. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1481-2 .
  • Philipp Oswalt (Ed.): Shrinking cities. Volume 2: Concepts of action. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1558-4 .
  • Tanzplan Deutschland (Ed.): Tanzplan Deutschland, a balance sheet. Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-89487-716-3 .
  • Franziska Sperr (Ed.): I am so young and the world is so old. Authors write with students. Eight experiments. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1575-4 .
  • Jakob Steinbrenner, Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.): Aesthetic values ​​and design. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2688-7 .
  • Jakob Steinbrenner, Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.): Context architecture. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2689-4 .
  • Jakob Steinbrenner, Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.): Original and forgery. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2690-0 .
  • Jakob Steinbrenner, Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.): Art education in the media. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2691-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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