Slowakische Kulturinstitutionen & Künstler*innen unter Druck

In the organizer's words:

In the fall of 2023, Martina Šimkovičová was appointed Minister of Culture by the ultra-right Slovakian National Party (SNS). In just a short time, she has arbitrarily replaced the management and qualified staff of state cultural institutions, abolished the current funding system and spread hate speech and conspiracy theories against freelance artists and members of the LGBTQI+ community. In her statements, she makes it clear that she wants to impose a "national Slovakian culture". The former director of the Slovak National Theater Matej Drlička, the choreographer and dancer Soňa Ferienčíková, the author Michal Hvorecký, the director of Divadlo Štúdio tanca Lucia Kašiarová and the LGBTQI+ activist and founder of the community project Tepláreň Roman Samotný describe their perspectives on current Slovak cultural policy in conversation with Markus Huber, director of the Goethe-Institut Slovakia.

Duration: approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Language: Slovak with simultaneous translation into German