acti­vi­ties

Resi­den­cy Musik­thea­ter­ta­ge Wien

  MUSIK­THEA­TER­TA­GE WIEN will be hos­ting four resi­den­ci­es in 2023 and 2024, as part of the EU-fun­­ded resi­den­cy pro­ject “What’s Next?”. In June 2023, music theat­re coll­ec­ti­ves and artists are invi­ted to par­ti­ci­pa­te in a one-week-resi­­den­­cy in Vien­na, Aus­tria. It is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for inter­na­tio­nal artists to work on their pro­jects in a focu­sed and safe environment […]

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Coope­ra­ti­on with Koali­ti­on der Frei­en Szene

In 2012, the inde­pen­dent sce­ne in Ber­lin joi­n­ed forces across all gen­res to safe­guard the sub­s­tance of the much-vaun­­ted and inter­na­tio­nal­ly cele­bra­ted crea­ti­ve Ber­lin. The Koali­ti­on der Frei­en Sze­ne (Coali­ti­on of the Inde­pen­dent Sce­ne) is an open plat­form that dis­cus­ses and for­mu­la­tes cul­tu­ral poli­cy demands, deve­lo­ps con­cepts and orga­ni­s­es cam­paigns in regu­lar mee­tings. The work […]

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Coope­ra­ti­on with the DACH Music

The Inde­pen­dent Music Theat­re shares many inte­rests and cul­­tu­ral-poli­­ti­­cal goals with the inde­pen­dent music sce­ne in Ber­lin. The­r­e­fo­re, the ZMB is also invol­ved in their infor­mal inte­rest group, the “DACH-Musik”, in which the inm e.V. (Initia­ti­ve Neue Musik), the IG Jazz and Ver­ei­ni­gung Alte Musik e.V. (Ear­ly Music Asso­cia­ti­on) work together. 

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Coope­ra­ti­on with LAFT e.V.

Inde­pen­dent music theat­re belongs to the field of the per­forming arts and shares a lar­ge part of its poli­ti­cal inte­rests and goals with it. The ZMB is the­r­e­fo­re in clo­se exch­an­ge with the LAFT e.V. (Lan­des­ver­band freie Dar­stel­len­de Küns­te Ber­lin), of which it is also a mem­ber.  https://​www​.laft​-ber​lin​.de

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Net­work for Inde­pen­dent Music Theatre

The ZMB is one of the dri­ving forces behind the estab­lish­ment of a nati­on­wi­de asso­cia­ti­on for inde­pen­dent music theat­re. Tog­e­ther with Stim­me X e.V. from Ham­burg and the Colo­gne Initia­ti­ve Musik­thea­ter (KIM) and fun­ded by the Neu­start Kul­tur pro­gram­me, the ZMB orga­nis­ed three net­work mee­tings in 2022. The offi­ci­al foun­ding of the nati­on­wi­de net­work of inde­pen­dent music […]

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For a Round Table in favour of the Ber­lin inde­pen­dent Art’s scene

The ZMB sup­ports the demand of the Koali­ti­on der Frei­en Sze­ne (Coali­ti­on of the Inde­pen­dent Sce­ne) for a round table in which sus­tainable, inclu­si­ve, ade­qua­te and legal­ly secu­re fun­ding struc­tures for the inde­pen­dent sce­ne are to be deve­lo­ped tog­e­ther with the Ber­lin Sena­te. https://www.koalition-der-freien-szene-berlin.de/forderungen-2022–26/

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For the Ber­lin Cul­tu­ral Pro­mo­ti­on Act

The ZMB has joi­n­ed the initia­ti­ve for a Ber­lin Cul­tu­ral Pro­mo­ti­on Act. In a working paper, the initia­ti­ve has com­pi­led important prio­ri­ties for a future cul­tu­re pro­mo­ti­on law and has alre­a­dy achie­ved that the govern­ment coali­ti­on has spo­ken out in favour of a cul­tu­re pro­mo­ti­on law. In topic-spe­ci­­fic working groups, open ques­ti­ons are curr­ent­ly being work­ed on. In this […]

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Trans­pa­rent and com­pe­tent jury appointments

A fair allo­ca­ti­on of funds for the pro­mo­ti­on of inde­pen­dent music theat­re is essen­ti­al­ly con­nec­ted to the com­po­si­ti­on of the respec­ti­ve juries. The ZMB advo­ca­tes that the pro­ce­du­res for nomi­na­ting jurors beco­me more trans­pa­rent and that com­pe­ten­ces in the field of inde­pen­dent music theat­re are taken into account in an appro­pria­te manner. 

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Trans­pa­rent allo­ca­ti­on of funding

The ZMB advo­ca­tes for a fair and trans­pa­rent con­side­ra­ti­on of inde­pen­dent music theat­re in the allo­ca­ti­on of funds in the various fun­ding pro­gram­mes of the Sena­te and the Haupt­stadt­kul­tur­fonds (Capi­tal Cul­tu­ral Fund). Music theat­re is often more com­plex and expen­si­ve to pro­du­ce than other forms of per­forming arts. This cir­cum­s­tance must be taken into account when […]

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