TRAFO - models for culture in transition

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TRAFO - Models for Culture in Transition is an initiative program of the Federal Cultural Foundation . The program supports rural regions in permanently strengthening their cultural locations and their cultural offerings. So far, six projects from the Oderbruch , southern Lower Saxony , the Saar-Palatinate and the Swabian Alb have been involved . Further regions will be added from 2018. From 2016 to 2023, the participating regional museums , theaters , libraries , cultural centers and festivals, in cooperation with the local population, will develop models of what a lively cultural life in rural areas will look like in the future and how it can be organized in the face of demographic change . In addition to promoting the projects, one of the main objectives of the program is to pass on experience from the regions and to initiate a debate about how cultural institutions can develop further in the face of demographic change and which alliances must be built between culture, politics and administration.

The Federal Cultural Foundation is providing up to 22.8 million euros for the entire duration of the program. The ministries, districts and municipalities involved co-finance the program and release employees of the local or district administration to work on the transformation projects.

The model regions

Oderbruch

In the Oderbruch , the former Brandenburg Open-Air Museum Altranft is being repositioned under the name "Oderbruch Museum Altranft - Workshop for Rural Culture". As part of changing annual themes, the museum opens its rooms to the actors of the region and works with the operators of local parlors, farmers, craftsmen and artists and invites them to tell the story of the Oderbruch from their perspective. Together with partner schools from the Oderbruch, the museum also implements artistic projects and develops teaching materials for landscape education. In order to make the cultural heritage of the landscape recognizable, a growing network of places that present the Oderbruch in its historical uniqueness is also being created, starting from the central institution of the Oderbruch Museum Altranft. Together, these locations and their municipalities apply for the European Heritage Label.

Southern Lower Saxony

The city of Osterode am Harz is setting up an inter-CULTURE laboratory in the city library. A non-commercial, intercultural place for meeting, education and culture is being created here. Together with the citizens and cooperation partners from the region, new interdisciplinary cultural formats in the fields of literature, theater, dance, music and visual arts are being developed. Interested citizens can help design and try out the new offer and take responsibility for individual formats.

The Jacobson House in Seesen is being developed into a multifunctional cultural center . The building, in which the city library, the workers 'welfare organization, the wind orchestra, senior citizens' associations, youth care facilities and the city's cultural administration are already located, will become a central location for joint cultural offers and events in the city. The users develop the concept and program of the cultural center together with other institutions, associations, independent artists and the city administration.

In the Harz Mountains | Museums | World Heritage project, a mining museum and three smaller visitor mines are joining forces. In order to develop the historical places of remembrance of mining into places of mediation for a wide range of topics and issues, they bundle ideas, structures and their external communication. In addition, they develop new educational offers, especially for young people, and encourage them to help shape museum work.

Saarpfalz district

The Saarpfalz district has decided as part of TRANSFORMER to align the development of culture to the concrete needs of the people of the region. Various cultural institutions in the Saarpfalz district and its seven municipalities as well as a large number of associations and other cultural actors are involved. Together they are developing a new cultural strategy for the region in the “Kultur + im Saarpfalz-Kreis” project. The overriding goal is to close existing gaps in the landscape of offers and to create new, stable structures that take the entire district into account. A regional fund is made available for the implementation of joint projects. 

Swabian Alb

In the Swabian Alb , a network of larger and smaller cultural institutions is being created in the project “Learning Cultural Region Swabian Alb”: The Lindenhof Theater in Melchingen, the Tübingen State Theater , the Federseemuseum Bad Buchau, the Heidenheim Opera Festival , the Villa Rot Museum in Burgrieden and the INTERIM- Festival on the Swabian Alb cooperate in so-called cultural workshops and implement projects with schools, cultural associations and other educational institutions on site in the communities in the Swabian Alb. The experiences of these cultural workshops are passed on at so-called culture platforms, which take place twice a year. In addition, the TRAFO program, together with the EU funding instrument LEADER , provides funds for the funding of cultural projects. As a model, an EU funding pot is to be further opened up for culture and supra-regional cooperation between administrations is to be intensified in order to support cultural institutions in submitting applications and implementing projects.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristin Bäßler, Samo Darian: Change yourselves! Help shape change processes in cultural institutions in rural areas with »TRAFO«. In: Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft (Ed.): Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen . tape 154 , 2016, p. 64-66 .
  2. ↑ Gudrun Ruthenberg: Report, Kulturradio des RBB, May 3, 2016  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturradio.de  
  3. ↑ Information from the Federal Cultural Foundation on the TRAFO program - Models for Culture in Transition. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Information on educational work on the website of the Oderbruch Museum Altranft. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2018 ; accessed on January 26, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-altranft.de
  5. ↑ Information on the Oderbruch Cultural Heritage Network on the website of the Oderbruch Museum Altranft ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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. , accessed January 26, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-altranft.de
  6. ↑ Press release of the German Library Association , accessed on September 6, 2016
  7. ↑ Jürgen Jenauer: Young theater makes rural exodus to art , ndr.de, January 15, 2016 , accessed on September 6, 2016
  8. ^ Robin de Greef: Inter-Kultur-Labor: Osteroder Bibliothek im Wandel. In: StadtRadio Göttingen. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ NN: Learning Swabian Alb Culture Region is funded with 3 million euros. suedkurier.de, accessed on September 6, 2016
  10. ^ Issue # 1 of the project newspaper of the learning culture region Swabian Alb. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Issue # 2 of the project newspaper of the Learning Culture Region Swabian Alb. Accessed January 31, 2018 .