Hope for southern German music academies
After the music academies in Baden-Württemberg were threatened with considerable financial cuts over the last year and a half, their funding is now to be increased.
The Green Science Minister Theresia Bauer has announced that the locations in Stuttgart, Trossingen, Freiburg, Mannheim and Karlsruhe will each receive three percent more money per year. This corresponds to a total amount of 28 million euros over the next six years.
The German Music Council welcomes the change of heart in the state of Baden-Württemberg's funding policy. Its Secretary General Christian Höppner hopes that "the crisis of the last one and a half years has served to bring about a gain in knowledge about the importance of music academies".
The elimination of 500 study places and a stronger profiling of the music university landscape had previously been considered. The universities of Mannheim and Trossingen would be particularly affected. There are plans to close the departments for training orchestral musicians at both locations.
