Berlin (dpa) – The Berlin cultural administration is trying to calm things down in the dispute over the new director of the Volksbühne. You will seek with all stakeholders the conversation. You’ll take the criticism of the new director Chris Dercon “very seriously”.
The concerns were unfounded however, the cultural administration said on Tuesday. It was one of their self-understanding, the plans of new directors to watch carefully. They will also handle at Dercon way.
Many theater staff had feared on Monday in an open letter, that there would be at the stage job cuts and no new forms and artistic challenges. Dercon, former director of London’s Tate Modern museum, will be in 2017 successor to the longtime manager Frank Castorf in summer. On the appointment of the Belgian there had been a lot of criticism. His opponents fear, the Museum art could make the theater an “Event Bude”.
The Department of Culture stressed that referred to in the letter Staff Assembly in April was not a program conference. Dercon and his program director Marietta Piekenbrock would publish their plans in the spring 2017th “Remember all departments and workshops of the house obtained the current establishment plan is not reduced, but even increased.” The house will be working in the future with its own ensemble.
Also Dercon himself enlisted in the release word “We are planning a program that builds bridges between the present and the history of the theater and in the history of the Volksbühne. This unique theater has played in every generation Revolution – and conditions always appear afterwards flexible than before “There will be neither a major personnel upheaval still had the various trades in danger
Culture Minister Monika Grütters (!. CDU), said: “It is not a problem, but also not uncommon for changes such as the planned line change trigger at the Volksbühne so much trouble.” Then follows a silent reminder to look at the profile of the stage: They could all participants only guess “the distinctive tradition of the theater, its artistic and social profile and its individuality even in the context of cultural activities of the Federation in Berlin sensitively to keep in mind”.
the theater director Claus Peymann called the Berlin government Michael Müller ( SPD) to prevent Dercon as new director of the Volksbühne. The mayor should a “see and correct errors,” wrote the director of the Berliner Ensemble. Müller should agree with Dercon and pay him. “It costs significantly less than its senseless plans.”
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