Call for a Ministry of Culture
Der Tagesspiegel,
16 August 2005, Germany
From Der Tagesspiegel, 16.08.2005:
"Federal cultural policy has only fully developed since Berlin has been the
capital."
For Rüdiger Schaper, the current SPD-Green government's experiment
with a Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin and Federal Cultural Foundation was a
success. As a next step, he now calls for the creation of a federal Ministry
of Culture.
Such a ministry would also do a better job of funding the arts in Berlin, and provide a welcome counterbalance to CDU chancellor candidate Angela Merkel's alarming lack of enthusiasm for the "cultural capital".
"Merkel shows considerably less zeal for culture in Berlin than the previous
CDU chancellor Helmut Kohl did, probably for fear of the CDU state premiers
and their cultural sovereignty. Merkel loves to gush about a 'deep knowledge
of folk songs and folk poetry'. You can't get more provincial than that."
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