Culture

Cooperation in the arts promotes cultural understanding

European culture established big shared traditions and epochs across borders and over many centuries. We are convinced that artistic cooperation between people from different cultural and language backgrounds in Germany and Europe is an important tool for improving mutual understanding. Especially literature always responded to the different and the new. This is why we support contributions from writers of different nations and cultures and want to wake enthusiasm for language and literature among young people from different backgrounds. We support artistic exchange and cooperation between German and East as well Southeast European junior filmmakers with our own co-production prize.

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Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
This literature prize is awarded annually to authors whose mother tongue and cultural background are non-German and whose works make an important contribution to German literature.
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Youth and Culture
Model projects are to wake an interest in cultural themes like cabaret, museums or music among young people. 
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Co-Production Prize
We award the prize for co-productions between German and Eastern European junior filmmakers. The prizes are awarded at the closing event of the goEast Festival in Wiesbaden.
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Border Crossers
We support authors preparing publications that focus on making Central and Eastern European issues accessible to a wide audience both in Germany and abroad.