IT HAS PLAYED OUT – OR: THE TRUMPIZATION OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING
Spring 2025 doesn’t make it easy to believe that things will be better this year and in the coming years than in 2024, 2023, 2022 and ….
On the contrary: the disastrous cultural policy decisions in Cologne and Berlin, where the budget debates not only resulted in cuts to important institutions and projects, but also in some cases in complete liquidation orders (see the Cologne Academy of the Arts of the World), bode ill for German cultural policy after last weekend’s depressing election.
Current events in the USA are rightly fueling fears that even more massive cuts to social and cultural projects are looming here too and that regressive policies in general will make a mockery of the important progress made in recent years and decades…
