Lower Saxony Foundation

Lower Saxony Foundation
Legal form:	legal foundation under civil law
Purpose:	Promotion of science, research, education, art and culture in the state of Lower Saxony
Chair:	Gunter Dunkel (President)
Managing directors:	Lavinia Francke (General Secretary)
Consist:	since January 1, 1987
Founder:	State of Lower Saxony
Foundation capital:	approx. 61 million euros (as of 2017)
Number of employees:	10
Seat:	Hanover , Germany
Website:	stnds.de

The Lower Saxony Foundation is a legal foundation under civil law. As a state cultural foundation, it promotes art, culture, education and science in Lower Saxony .

The state-wide commitment of the Lower Saxony Foundation and its mission to bring culture to the area reflects the regional distribution of the funding projects. Since it was founded in 1987, it has funded over 3,000 projects in all cultural fields to the tune of 107 million euros. With programs such as the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover or the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography, the foundation sets its own content and looks after sub-foundations in trust . The foundation is based in the Künstlerhaus Hannover .

history

The Lower Saxony Foundation was established in 1987 by the State of Lower Saxony. Its capital was around 61 million euros in 2017. The investment income is used for the statutory promotion of art, culture, education and science. There are also grants from the state from the revenue from the gaming tax (2017: 4 million euros). The foundation's assets also include works of art and collections worth almost 7.4 million euros (as of 2017), which were purchased for Lower Saxony's cultural and scientific institutions. In 2012 Musikland Niedersachsen GmbH was established and affiliated with the Lower Saxony Foundation as a company. The Society and the Advisory Board include the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture and the Sparkassenstiftung as sponsors.

organization

Bodies

The organs of the foundation are the president, the board of directors, the senate and the general secretary.

Office in the Künstlerhaus Hannover

The headquarters of the Lower Saxony Foundation has been the Künstlerhaus Hannover in the center of the state capital since 2001 . Built between 1853 and 1856, the Künstlerhaus has been the seat of various cultural institutions from the beginning until today, such as the Museum of the Province of Hanover. The Künstlerhaus is an early work by the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase . Today the Künstlerhaus is not only an important architectural monument , but an attractive and lively cultural center. Traditional Hanoverian cultural institutions are represented by the Kunstverein Hannover , the Literaturhaus Hannover and the municipal cinema .

Goals and Activities

The Lower Saxony Foundation realizes its purpose operationally with programs and with the support of projects. With its programs, such as the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hanover , the SPECTRUM - International Prize for Photography and the Best OFF - Festival Free Theater , it sets its own accents in terms of content - in art, literature, music and theater, education and science. With the LINK funding program, the Lower Saxony Foundation wants to initiate exemplary cooperation projects between cultural workers and scientists in the field of artificial intelligence . In the coming years, the possibilities of artificial intelligence for culture are to be explored, developed and the development of applications made possible within the framework of the funding program. Here, cultural institutions, scientists and companies are to be encouraged to cooperate and to joint projects.

The funding reflects the entire diversity of cultural creation in all parts of Lower Saxony. Large structural measures, extensive festival funding or the large number of smaller cultural projects, for example the independent theater, are basically on an equal footing. Any funding is preceded by the examination of the application.

With volume 67, the foundation took over the monograph series Kunst der Gegenwart from Lower Saxony , which for almost 50 years has provided an overview of important Lower Saxony artists from a wide variety of disciplines and was originally published by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture.

Acquisition of cultural property

The Lower Saxony Foundation is the owner of numerous art objects and collections. They are acquired for museums, libraries or universities and made available on permanent loan. The Lower Saxony Foundation thus secures important cultural assets for the state. It promotes the targeted and long-term oriented acquisition policy of the (cultural) institutions and contributes to their profiling.

Sub-foundations

The Lower Saxony Foundation oversees the Konrad Liebmann Foundation (with an extensive Dürer collection) and the Richard and Dietrich Moderhack Foundation (promoting research on the history of Lower Saxony until the end of the Old Reich).

literature

Cornelius Hartz, Friederike Kohn, Gesa Schönermark, Olaf Kutzmutz, Kathrin Lange (eds.): Distillates - Literature Labor Wolfenbüttel 2016 . Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel 2016; ISBN 9783929-622676 (current edition, published annually since 2001).
Lower Saxony Foundation (ed.): Experimental. Ten years of Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory. 2001–2010 , no year [2011].
Lower Saxony Foundation (Hrsg.): Communauten on the way and Communauten. Discover. Explore. Declare without year [2010 and 2012].
Rainer Ertel : Lower Saxony Foundation. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 606.
Lower Saxony Foundation (ed.): To promote art without a year [2007].
Lower Saxony Foundation (publisher): older - more colorful - less. The demographic challenge to culture . transcript, Bielefeld 2006; ISBN 3-89942-505-7 .
Hansjörg Küster , Wolfgang Volz: Nature becomes landscape - Lower Saxony. The Making of a Landscape - Lower Saxony . Zu Klampen, Springe 2005; ISBN 3-934920-51-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony Foundation - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Lower Saxony Foundation. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .

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[1] Lower Saxony Foundation. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .