Cultural Center French K.

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The franz.K is a socio-cultural center in Reutlingen that opened in 2008 with an event program consisting of political discussions, theater, cabaret and music from different directions and for different target groups.

Over 350 events take place every year, and the annual number of visitors is around 50,000. The French K is a member of the State Working Group on Sociocultural Centers (LAKS) and as such is subsidized by the city of Reutlingen and the state of Baden-Württemberg . 65% of the expenditure is financed from own resources.

The name franz.K is derived from the former French cinema that was housed in the building "Unter den Linden 23" as part of the officers' mess of the French garrison stationed in Reutlingen from 1945 to 1992 . After the withdrawal of the French armed forces, the building complex became the property of the city.

program

One focus of the program is on intercultural work. There are several formats that deal with this topic: There is an intercultural jam session called Easy Sunday. A three-day open air called inter: Come! In which, on the one hand, world music bands play, but also migrant associations from the city of Reutlingen make gastronomic and cultural contributions. There are free tickets for all events for refugees. In general there is the possibility for people with a small budget to get free tickets for events via the AWO or the Asylcafé.

In 2015 the French K won the APPLAUS Prize of the Initiative Musik .

The approximately 170 music events annually are structured in the form of several series: "Songs & Poesija" presents indie folk, indie pop and singer / songwriters, "Indi (e) stinction" experimental forms of rock outside the mainstream, "noche globalista", "nuite globaliste" "Or" global (east) -a "world music bands that mix folk elements from the Spanish and French-speaking areas as well as from Eastern Europe with rock, ska, reggae, punk and hip-hop. “Francofolies” presents bands from France who bring chansons to the stage in a new look, “The other Side of Nashville” presents bands that mix country, bluegrass and Americana and “noche latina” presents bands from Latin America who mix folk styles , Playing jazz and pop.

Jazz concerts usually run in cooperation with the Reutlingen “Jazzclub in der Mitte” and therefore do not have a fixed name. In addition to the music series, the franz. K also the “Kleinkunstherbst”, in which cabaret artists, cabaret artists, comedians, songwriters, humorists and comedians of the most widely known performers. The “Kleinkunstherbst” emerged in 2008 from the “Kleinkunstbühne”, which had been operating since 1984 with a comparable concept until 2003 in the vaulted cellar of the restaurant “Zum Alten Rappen” and then until 2008 in the “Foyer U3”, the predecessor of the franz. K, hosted.

Furthermore, the franz. K also targeted the regional scene. There are therefore fixed program series / concert slots for local bands and musicians (motto: "Indie stays Echaz" [Echaz is the name of the river that flows past the French K]) - rock bands from the region share the French K stage, es gave "regio.music.spot" - a competition for young talent in cooperation with the Neckar-Alb pop office, which was launched at the beginning of the 2000s together with the Reutlingen Office for Schools, Youth and Sports in what was then the Cafe Nepomuk, "Rhythm & Groove" - ​​the annual band festival with student bands from the Reutlingen Music School, "Represent - United Bands of Reutlingen", a 2-day band festival with exclusively local bands, "Poesie & Pommes" SongSlams, "Poesie & Pommes" Poetry Slams (with the participation of rappers), "Easy Sunday", the monthly intercultural JamSession with Reutlingen musicians from all parts of the world.

The French. K also has artistic in-house productions. In addition to touring indoor festivals such as the Akkordeonale (accordion world music festival) and the Bluegrass Jamboree (bluegrass and Americana festival), separate formats have also been developed in the indoor area, such as the Sturm & Klang Festival (target group are students who Festival consisted of workshops on political issues and 3 bands aimed at young people in the evening) and the Songs & Poesija Festival, which aims to show the diversity of artists, all of whom are singer / songwriters. In addition, the cultural center is a cooperation partner at the “Reutlinger Jazzfrühling” jazz festival and a venue for large events. There is also cooperation with the “Burning Eagle Festival”, which takes place in the franz. K emerged and grew over 6 years and became independent in 2013. It presented unusual singer / songwriters and indie bands and was praised in the entire music and regional press for its ambitious program and ambience. In the run-up to the festival, the cultural center usually presents 3 warm-up concerts with pop / rock bands.

In addition, the franz. K Partner and venue for the evening events of the “Kultur vom Rande” festival, which shows “integrative” culture all over the city for a week, i.e. artistic productions by and with people with disabilities. The form of the festival is unique in Germany.

The combined Indie (e) stinction festival has existed since 2016. The play on words Indi (e) stinction refers to bands that are on the one hand "indie", i.e. independent of the big labels and also independent of mass taste, and on the other hand are not so easy to distinguish, that is, can be classified, i.e. are "indistinctive".

With “Kollektiv: Tanzbar” a series of events with electronic dance music by local DJs was started in 2016 in cooperation with the four organizer collectives “Bollwerk”, “Bunte Klänge”, “Emma.Ton” and “Lichterberg”. At "franz tanz! T" alternative / indie is played. There is also the “Africa Night” party offering with African beats, reggae, Latin and hip-hop.

Premises

The former cinema in the 1950s building offers space for up to 390 people seated and 620 standing. Four different event rooms are available on 2,000 square meters. The rooms are also rented out for private events. All rooms and stages are barrier-free .

society

The French K cultural center is supported by a non-profit cultural association. Members receive discounted tickets. The cultural association emerged from the cultural center association in the U3 foyer and was renamed on November 26, 2007. In October 2008, two months before the opening of the French K cultural center, the association had 25 members, at the beginning of 2017 there were over 500 members. The club members actively participate in the cultural work on a voluntary basis.

history

The first initiative to create a socio-cultural center in Reutlingen dates back to 1983 and resulted in the establishment of Café Nepomuk as a "small solution". A cultural center with subsidies from public funds could not be implemented at the time. The Nepomuk started in a small corner bar with an eight-person founding collective who wanted to realize life and work in self-administration and to combine café, culture and politics without suitable rooms and subsidies.

The Café Nepomuk was able to expand significantly in 1993 by moving to the restaurant within the former Foyer Cinema of the French garrison - the building that is now "French K" after the renovation.

The founding impulse for the new center finally came from the culture crew of Nepomuk. Parallel to the cultural development and expansion in the café rooms, u. a. free theater groups as well as the jazz club and the cabaret the former cinema hall in the building. These originally seven, later six independent groups (the Nepomuk Kulturverein, the Kleinkunstbühne Reutlingen, the Jazzclub In der Mitte and the independent theaters Sturmvogel , figuren theater tübingen and Varietétheater Weltenhopser) worked together from 2002 on to implement the plans for an innovative and diverse cultural center in the building "Unter den Linden 23".

After the Reutlingen referendum voted “No” about the culture and congress center in the same year, for the first time in years there were concrete opportunities for a culture center with a broad and everyday concept of culture. The jointly conceived music-theater-cabaret festival under the title “Schad 'Nix” became the start of the campaign, which was perceived nationwide at the beginning of 2003. After years of persuading the public and committees, a socio-cultural center in the foyer U3 (KU3) was decided in 2006 as part of the Reutlingen cultural conception and initiated with priority. As a result of a survey of all Reutlingen cultural institutions and initiatives, the cultural conception recommended, in addition to the construction of a new, albeit slimmer and better-designed city hall and a theater center, the expansion of the U3 foyer into a socio-cultural center as a central cultural-political project. In the course of the specific planning, the name “KU3” finally became “French K - cultural center in the old French cinema” after a thorough examination of over 70 suggested names.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APPLAUS Award for the program planning of independent venues of the Initiative Musik , accessed September 30, 2017