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SummaryIngo Schulze's acceptance speech for the Thuringian Literature Award, which is not financed by the state but by the energy company E.ON, triggered a public discussion about sponsoring in art and culture. The tendency towards a re-feudalization of the culture industry goes hand in hand with a general privatization and thus economization of all areas of life. What bothers me is that we are in the process of giving up what has been fought for in a long process, namely that the democratic state assumes its responsibility, not only for the arts. What bothers me is that there is hardly an exhibition catalogue without the logo or the name of a company, almost every festival or guest performance starts with the list of its sponsors. (from the speech of I. Schulze on 4.11.2007).
Academy discussion with Heinz Dürr, Hans-Joachim Otto, Gerhard Pfennig, Ingo Schulze, Klaus Staeck, moderator Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen
(Source: Internet presence of the Academy of Arts)
