The Austrian cultural sector is facing its greatest existential
crisis of the Second Republic. The conceptual foundations of Austrian cultural policy date from the 1970s and are approaching
their limits due to the pandemic. This book highlights the urgency of renegotiating the relationship between the cultural
sector and wider society through artists, mediators, and users.
Together with several long-standing cultural observers,
Michael Wimmer sets out to find a contemporary cultural policy. His goal is to ensure that art and culture are given the status
in society that they deserve.
Conceived as a dialogical polemic, the central aspects of a new agenda for cultural
policy are negotiated in order to initiate a broader discussion of cultural policy.
- On the history, present, and future
of cultural policy
- A plea for a broad discussion of cultural policy
- With contributions by Sylvia Amann, Sabine
Breitwieser, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Aslı Kışlal, Birgit Mandel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, and others
Michael
Wimmer, founder and director of the research institute EDUCULT; lecturer, speaker, author, Vienna
