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Among other things, the distance rules endanger livelihoods in the cultural field. The city of Offenbach is now jumping into the breach and provides an event hall for local culture professionals.
What does a love scene in the theater look like if distance rules have to be observed? It is by no means just questions of content that are causing headaches for cultural workers these days. In the course of the Corona crisis, the country recently launched another aid program for the cultural scene with a volume of 50 million euros – but there are still cultural professionals who fall through the grid of funding conditions.
For example, the “t-Raum” theater in Offenbach. The core of the free stage team consists of Sarah C. Baumann and her husband Frank Geisler. The couple could not tap into the previous funding pots – partly because t-Raum is not organized as an association.
And now? Baumann and Geisler live from their theater, but are not registered in the artists’ social security fund. However, membership there is a prerequisite for receiving one of the cultural grants recently promised by the state. And only those who regularly offer events can access another funding fund – a new cultural fund. Geisler says, however, that there are not ten performances a month in t-Raum, unless you add workshops, for example. The couple now waits to see whether at least the last-mentioned funding route is feasible – or whether the t-space is also empty there.
Change of location
The first performance of the t-Raum theater in the Offenbach Capitol is planned for Friday, June 26th. Schiller’s “The Robbers” is performed. More information: www.of-t-raum.de.
To support Offenbacher cultural sites, the city launched the “#futureOFculture” campaign: offenbach.de/future-of-culture. fab
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The clammy Offenbach community gives hope to the two theater makers. The city has decided to open a hall in the city’s Capitol Theater to the local cultural scene. Geisler is very happy about it. Because, according to his estimate, only a few spectators could sit in his own theater while observing the applicable distance rules.
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In the Max Dienemann Hall of the Capitol, however, there is room for 35 guests. It starts at the end of June, from then on Geisler and Baumann play in the new hall every Friday. They have already transported some comfortable chairs and sofas there to create atmosphere. “We are watching to be able to cover as much of the operating costs as possible with supporters,” says Capitol Managing Director Birgit von Hellborn, who came up with the idea of making the hall available to local culture professionals. One hopes that “if possible, the entire entrance fee can remain with the artists”.
Offenbach’s mayor and head of culture, Felix Schwenke (SPD), emphasizes that the stage in the hall “should primarily provide the small Offenbach culture enthusiasts” – those who, like Baumann and Geisler, currently have no other opportunities to perform, but live from their culture.
The t-Raumler are still worried: So you don’t yet know how to keep a long performance exciting enough if the specification actually means that you should air every 30 minutes. When it comes to closeness, at least Baumann and Geisler don’t have to worry: as a couple living together, there are no distance rules. Not even on stage.
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