So now he heard about his frequently caused sense of intuition. Berlin Cultural Senator Joe Chialo announced a resignation on Friday morning.
The message is not a surprise. For several weeks, the cultural scene of the possible successors of Berlin for Chialalo, who for a long time acted as a potential new Minister of Culture, was exchanged, but who was also whispered that he would probably want to switch to creative industries, should be refused to advance in federal policy.
It is clear that the cultural senator lost more and more support in the capital – on the cultural scene, which was rightfully discarded after a radically disproportionate reduction in the cultural budget, in public, which could not quickly implement messages on Sunday on Sunday, an increase in theatrical tickets and urban programs, such as “city -city” were also deleted.
In the past few months, he was obviously also introduced to his own state camp. It is believed that the relationship between Chialo and his state secretary Sarah Vedl-Uilson is broken, and his relationship with the ruling mayor Kay Vegner also stated that they were badly injured from restrictive budget policy and Chialo.
Fell into the back of cultural institutions of the city
The main statements from all sides that Chialo understood the consequences of the cuts too late, talked too late and therefore fell into the back of the city’s cultural institutions instead of protecting them.
His advice is to take a model to follow in a commercial cultural economy and a search for assistance thanks to cooperation with private sponsors, was rejected on stage and was rejected by many sides as cynical – even if, given the pace at which the city’s houses are happy, the weapon is unclear how indignation was only lips for freedom of art.
More recently, Vegner personally discovered the so -called cultural dialogue in which he exchanged the head of his own cultural senator with leading representatives: inside the Berlin cultural landscape about radical measures of rigid economy and their consequences.
Now Chialo herself calls savings in the cultural budget, which he has a “heavy heart”, and the subsequent concentration of criticism on his personality, which complicated a constructive discussion as the reasons for the resignation: “In this situation, I believe that my responsibility creates a space for new prospects,” says DPA report on the exit.
Problems in the term Chialo cannot be overlooked. In addition to the miserable commitment to the cultural budget and the lack of sensitivity to the Berlin cultural scene, especially in addition to the prestigious or commercial popular mainstream, primarily with its controversial, poorly knitted and, therefore, inconsistent symbol policy in relation to “anti-Semitism”, created the promotion of anti-Semitic content with the wanted persons. Similarly, with a missed promotion, in order to transfer the central state library to the building of the former Lafayet Galeries.
Gorky aftertaste
The decision to resolve Chialalo is understandable taking into account a pile of broken glass. Perhaps he hoped for the atoning reputation of Frederick Merets in the federal government to avoid his home problems and clutch with capital. Perhaps Chialo really made the consequences from his unsuccessful policy and wanted to go with his head raised to clear the field for someone more competent.
Berlin green already require that Kai Vegner is now negotiating about the next cultural budget. And maybe this is why this remains a bitter aftertaste: Chialo’s mistakes were obvious – and yet we should not forget that it was the ruling mayor Kai Vegner, who suggested that the cashiers of the city were not interested in opera houses, so they still would not get benefits from subsidized tickets.
Chialo is coming, but WEGNER will remain. And with him the feeling that the ambassador may have been confused again with the message, while the one who was originally responsible may seem heroic broken. It is still unknown whether Berlin culture is really looking at the best future.
