One billion euros for a new start in culture
To support culture in Germany, a total of around one billion euros more will be made available for the cultural sector from the cultural budget for this and next year.
The program is essentially divided into four parts: pandemic-related investments in cultural institutions, maintaining and strengthening cultural infrastructure and emergency aid, promoting alternative, including digital, offerings and pandemic-related additional requirements for cultural institutions and projects regularly funded by the federal government.
Together with the federal government's other aid packages, this results in support for creative professionals and the cultural sector amounting to several billion euros. For example, access to basic income support was extended to safeguard individual living conditions. The 50 billion euro program of the Minister of Economic Affairs for the self-employed has helped thousands of those affected to pay the rent for their cinema, music club, bookshop, studio or gallery. A voucher solution for cultural event organizers also forms a bridge.
Together with the numerous other measures already initiated from the culture budget, more than one billion euros will be used to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on culture. Among other things, 20 million euros have now been made available for a conversion program, 15 million euros for a future cinema program, 15 million euros for investments in national cultural institutions in Germany and 5.4 million euros for the German orchestral landscape.
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