Who’s Next? Paths Toward Solidary Decision-Making Using Examples from Zürich and Berlin

Culture and politics are inseparably connected with one another. The way in which decisions are made, the language that we find and the form of transparency that we choose forms the core of solidary actions within the independent performing arts community and are clearly visible within the regions and cities. To bring the first day of the conference to a close, we want to locate and understand, on the basis of specific models, how the cities of Zürich and Berlin arrive at their structures and models. Where are which decisions made and what visions unify our example cities and in what visions do they vary? What aspects of the models presented here do we want to take with us as an orientation for our understanding of an independent performing arts community? How solidary can a theater landscape shape itself to be and what utopias does it follow?

With Daniel Imboden (Theater Funding for the city of Zürich), Sabine Köhncke (Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Europe), Michelle Akanji / Rabea Grand / Juliane Hahn (Gessnerallee 2020), Franziska Werner (Sophiensæle) in conversation with Janina Benduski (Berlin Performing Arts Program).