Beschreibung
Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from politics and the public sphere. The contributions in this volume demonstrate how in different European countries it is mainly the cultural players who offer suggestions for an organization of the changing forms of communal life that is keeping with the times. The arts in particular have proven to be able of providing fresh impetus and new insights. This compendium of theory and practice combines outcomes of studies in cultural policy, introduces exemplary models and thus constitutes a first attempt at determining the position of innovative cultural work in rural areas. All essays both in English and German. Durch globale Transformationsprozesse und die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels rücken ländliche Räume immer mehr in den Fokus von Politik und Öffentlichkeit. Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen für verschiedene europäische Länder, dass vor allem Kulturakteure relevante Anregungen für die zeitgemäße Gestaltung des sich verändernden Zusammenlebens geben. Insbesondere die Künste stellen dabei einen Nährboden für weiterführende Impulse dar. Dieses Handbuch für Theorie und Praxis führt Ergebnisse der Kulturpolitikforschung zusammen, stellt beispielhafte Modelle vor und wagt somit erstmals eine Positionsbestimmung innovativer Kulturarbeit in ländlichen Räumen. Alle Beiträge sind in Englisch und Deutsch enthalten.
Autorenportrait
Wolfgang Schneider (Prof. Dr.) is chairman of the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., personal member of the German UNESCO Commission, tutor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, member of the federal board of the Cultural Forum of Social Democracy as well as of the board of Initiative für die Archive des Freien Theaters e.V., honorary member of ASSITEJ Germany and Switzerland, and honorary president of Internationale Vereinigung des Theaters für Kinder und Jugendliche. He was the founding director of the Department for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim and holder of the UNESCO chair 'Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development'. He was the first director of Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrum in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, chairman of the theater advisory board of Lower Saxony, member of the dance and theater advisory board of the Goethe-Institut, and rapporteur as an expert member of the Enquete commission 'Culture in Germany' of the German Bundestag. In 2018 he was awarded the First Class Federal Cross of Merit. Beate Kegler (PhD) is a research fellow at the Department of Cultural Policy of the University of Hildesheim. Her main research focus lies on cultural policy and cultural education for rural development. Daniela Koß (M.A.) is a cultural studies specialist at the Foundation of the German state of Lower Saxony. She is responsible for the development and implementation of innovative culture-funding programmes.
