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<DIV>Werter Rat, eine Kollegin aus Budapest, die in einer großen
Kulturinstitution die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit macht, schickte mir folgende
Erklärung der Akademie der Künste Budapest, die vielleicht für den einen oder
anderen im Kontext der Erklärung des Rates in Sachen ungarische Kultur
interessant sein könnte:</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>ANNOUNCEMENT for the International Press</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>The antidemocratic makeover of the cultural scene in
Hungary</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>Recent legislative steps in Hungary point towards the authoritarian
transformation of the institutional structures and funding system of cultural
life, by giving an ultra conservative artist group close to the rightwing
government, the Hungarian Academy of Arts, an unassailable position of power. As
a result of these decisions, the government has endangered the long term
autonomy, professionalism and democratic procedures of Hungarian contemporary
art.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>The government established the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) as
the preeminent authority in the field of arts through the new constitution or
Fundamental Law, which came into force on 1 January, 2012. The Academy, which
was originally founded as a private association in 1992, is made up of artists
strongly loyal towards the government. In order to be accepted as a member, the
Academy requires a commitment to the nation, a certain “national feeling.” In
2011 the Hungarian Academy of Arts was transformed into a public body, in a
process lacking the minimum of transparency, and was provided straight off with
a considerable amount of funding and its own a grandiose headquarters. In
November the government further extended the cultural political role of the
Hungarian Academy of Arts, endowing the organization with unprecedented power,
including exclusive right of decision making over the contemporary cultural
infrastructure - and a gigantic budget at the expense of the whole of the
Hungarian cultural scene.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>According to the announcement of the Ministry, the Academy will
have the right to be involved in the committees deciding about important state
awards, and next year the entire system of public cultural funding and subsidies
will be reviewed in a process involving the president of the Hungarian Academy
of Arts. This funding system, which up till now has been operated through
advisory boards made up of representatives of the respective artistic fields –
including the National Cultural Fund, the organization with the most
comprehensive activity in the field of distributing state support on a
professional basis – is in danger of being centralized and subordinated to a
particular interest group, an ideologically based community.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>The Hungarian Academy of Arts, according to their stated
intentions, would take over several state tasks and responsibilities in the
field of culture, thus for example they would participate in the selection of
directors of cultural institutions and museums, and even encroach on how
professional organizations work.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>From 1 January 2013 the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, which is
the most significant venue and symbolic space for contemporary art in Hungary,
will become the property of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. The Hungarian Academy
of Arts will also have the right to define the principles and professional
concepts of the art policy of the institution. Following this announcement, the
present director of Műcsarnok has resigned.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Calibri> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>The legal background of the Hungarian Academy of Arts may guarantee
its legitimacy in legal terms, it does not however make up for its lack of
professional legitimacy. The upgrading and extending of the role of the
Hungarian Academy of Arts in cultural policy, including raising its budget
without any public and professional consultation, have taken place in an
antidemocratic way, excluding professional organizations and forums. Together
with the general, dramatic financial restrictions in all fields of culture,
these processes will result in the mutilation of the possibility of maintaining
a diverse artistic environment in Hungary.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=HU><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>With these measures, the Hungarian government, through the Ministry
of Human Resources, have given over the right to make the most important
cultural decisions to a society of artists that avows and commits itself to
conservative values and national culture, that also opposes the rejection of
state and the church control, and rejects a contemporary culture that stands for
the autonomy of art and believes in the critical social role of art. It has
become evident that the political executive power intends to control
contemporary culture in a direct way with the help of legal regulations and put
an end to its still existing plurality.</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=2 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Gruß,
Dorothea</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>P.S. Vor kurzem ist ein Buch von mir erschienen, auf das ich euch gerne
hinweisen würde:</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Dorothea
Kolland<BR></SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR>Werkstatt
Stadtkultur<BR><BR><B>Potenziale kultureller und künstlerischer Vielfalt.
Reflexionen und Erfahrungen<BR></B><BR><I>Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e. V. /
Klartext Verlag: Bonn / Essen 2012 (Edition Umbruch Nr. 29)<BR>319 Seiten 19,00
Euro ISBN 978-3-8375-0794-2<BR></I><BR>In der Praxis von 30 Jahren als
Kulturamtsleiterin in Berlin-Neukölln hat Dorothea Kolland erfahren, dass ein
Weg, wenn man hehre Ziele wie »Kultur für alle«, »soziale Inklusion« oder
»kulturelle Partizipation« verfolgt, voller Fußangeln sein kann. Besonders in
Neukölln, einem der bekannten sozialen und mittlerweile kulturell
außerordentlich produktiven Brennpunkte, waren und sind immer wieder neue Denk-
und Aktionsstrategien vonnöten. Die Autorin entwickelte ihre Konzepte kommunaler
Kulturarbeit immer aus den Praxiserfordernissen und -erfahrungen heraus, stets
zu Experimenten und zu neuem Denken bereit. Dies geschah nie allein im engen
Raum des Kiezes, sondern immer im Dialog und Diskurs mit nationalen und
internationalen Debatten. Die »Banlieues d'Europe« und die »Banlieues von
Berlin« gaben sich die Hand.<BR><BR>Die Herausforderungen ihrer Arbeit sind die
Themen dieses Buches: Armut, Interkulturalität, Netzwerken als Basis von
Stadtkulturarbeit, Kunst als Impetus von Stadtentwicklung, Leitkulturen,
Potenziale und Behinderungen, Diversität als Grundlage für demokratische,
innovative Stadtkultur und Inklusion, immer mit dem »ceterum censeo« des
Beharrens auf Kunst, ohne dabei deren gesellschaftliche Wirkungsmöglichkeit zu
überschätzen: Davor schützte die Neuköllner Realität.<BR>Es geht weniger um
Geld, es geht viel mehr um genaues Hinsehen, um Respekt und Innovation. Anstatt
Kulturinfarkte zu behandeln, gilt es, neue Governance-Strukturen zu etablieren,
die demokratisches, inklusives Gemeinwesen ernst nehmen. Dabei gilt für die
kommunale Kultur(politik) im Sinne Robert Jungks: »Die große Aufgabe der Kultur
ist es, die Gesellschaft ständig zu konfrontieren mit anderen
Möglichkeiten.«<BR><BR><BR><BR>Inhaltsverzeichnis <A
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<DIV><FONT lang=2 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Dr. Dorothea
Kolland<BR>Windscheidstr. 2<BR>10627
Berlin<BR>Dorotheakolland@aol.com<BR><BR>Tel. 030
3136356<BR>01704997756</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>