“They are crazy – I should be there!”, The people said about the project “Cultural District of Erfurt” when it was founded, Tali Bukhner from the Association Council reports. At the same time, more than 1000 cooperators were infected with the idea of transforming Schauspielhaus, which was closed since 2003.
To do this, they received the price of the TAZ Panter Foundation for participating in civilian society, which was endowed with 5,000 euros in Bochum. Most of the 6500 online voting preferred an unprecedented initiative.
After the announcement of Tali Bukhner and colleague Thomas Schmidt remained without a speech and with a moving face, before Schmidt verbally justified the price for the project. This initiative can be “model, looking for other cities.”
At first, says Bukhner, the need for a place of exchange and cultural meeting. She is the managing director of Green Group in the City Council of Erfurt and reports a cultural cafe that was founded in its environs. He asked for a good answer more, and since 2011, defense barracks on Petersberg were considered the desired object. The old fortress is located next to the impressive ensemble of the house and St. Sevyry in Erfurt and was the center of the federal garden show in 2021.
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Nominietrte on stage
In the ambitious project, there were no only two votes in the city council. Now the capital of the state of Turoring cannot be described as a cultural diaspora. But the desire for a “place where many different players gather together and help the form,” as Tali Bukhner says, continued. Closed game house in the spotlight.
The first cultural cooperative in Thuringia
In 2015, the City Council unanimously voted for the transfer of the development of the concept of use and the operator in the KulturquartierVerein. A year later, the first cultural cooperative in Thuringia was founded in the ballroom of the town hall.
The actual sensation appeared in the center of coronapandemia in 2020. The cooperative was able to buy a house and real estate, although the city was by no means adapting to the owner. The goat of millions of euros in the house preferred the first Sparkasse loan. Buying a house, the number of cooperative skills made to four digital heights. After creating a business plan at the end of 2024, there was a second loan for actual expansion.
And this only requires fire protection and safety of visitors for professional transactions. In addition, the city completely abandoned the building built in the neo -Baro style 130 years ago and even turned off electricity and water.
The largest hall offers 400 seats. Partners from the Erfurt dance theater. V. And from the club of the club they receive their own rooms and entrances, as well as radio frequency radio. Financially, the cultural quarter is not alone. The federal government and a credit institution for reconstruction have half a million for repair, a friendly monument. The promotion program under the program “Day after tomorrow” of the Federal Ministry of Culture is ensured. With the help of a further financing program, you are still trembling until the federal budget is decided.
The cultural quarter is not demonstrated against reactionary trends, but very against the legend that cannot be said more and not to help form your opinion, explains Tli Bukhner. If the expansion continues, the first imitation could be opened next year and the whole house in the middle of -2027.
