Cultural Policy Update for Berlin (and Brandenburg)

There is a lot happening within Berlin’s cultural policy landscape: from the perspective of the independent performing arts community, a number of interim goals for improving the production conditions have been achieved, but there is still a great deal to do. How can these aspirations be anchored within the long-term cultural policy developments in Berlin? How are they addressed in the cultural policy conversations with parliament and the administration? The new draft of the cultural budget for 2020/2021 will also be briefly introduced. To kick things off, Janina Benduski and Wibke Behrens will discuss the current situation in Berlin. Frank Reich will provide information about the current state of cultural policy in Brandenburg. The most important points will then be more thoroughly discussed and analyzed in a conversation with the cultural policy speaker of the party Die Linke within Berlin’s House of Representatives, Regina Kittler.

In cooperation with Kulturpolitischen Gesellschaft. With Janina Benduski (Berlin Performing Arts Program), Wibke Behrens (Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft), Frank Reich (Freie Theater Brandenburg), Regina Kittler (House of Representatives, Die Linke).