Programme overview "Bühne raus" 2025
The basic idea of cultural policy is that culture is essential for all people and that cultural activity is ultimately what defines what it means to be human. The way in which this happens is of secondary importance. What is important is togetherness, giving and taking, showing and being shown.
"Our city is as diverse; as diverse as life itself. And this is also how we see our cultural work. If anything has been achieved in recent years - and especially with 'Bühne raus' - it is to make this diversity visible, to bring different things together, to work together and with each other." This is how Mayor Eva Döhla and Head of the Cultural Office Peter Nürmberger explain the programme's cultural policy approach.
There will once again be a large stage, which will be made available to children from the primary school as well as professionals from Hof Theatre and the Hof Symphony Orchestra. But the independent theatre scene, the migrant world, old and young, big and small are also invited. In particular, people from the neighbourhood will also be addressed - both as actors and guests.
Large and small formats are planned from 4 to 20 July 2025. The cultural office is the organiser and is even moving its office there for this period. "We simply want to be approachable at all times," says its director Peter Nürmberger, explaining this measure. His aim is not only to demand "culture for all", but also to actually put it into practice. He explains: "Culture has to be viewed much more broadly than what happens on the established stages. In the programme, we therefore also rely on the integrating power of music and dance, drama and every other kind of artistic activity." The proverbial "thinking outside the box" is part of the programme.
The diverse programme is put together by the City of Hof's Department of Culture. Anja Schmidt and head of the cultural department Peter Nürmberger were in charge of the programme and were supported in particular by the Freiheitshalle team.
For the 2025 programme, the good contacts are to be deepened once again in order to draw strength from them - however it can continue with a concept that does not disdain entertainment, but measures success not by pure visitor numbers, but by the shared experience.
It is a Hof project that has received the highest level of funding from the federal programme "Sustainable inner cities and centres". Nürmberger comments: "Urban development is not just about streets or infrastructure, the interaction between people is even more important. And this approach has already been realised by the very different players in 2023 and 2024 and is well prepared for 2025: Young and old, rich and poor, Bahnhofsviertel and Krötenbruck, classical music and unexpected sounds, loud and quiet, schools and clubs, theatres and symphony orchestras, initiatives of all kinds - so many have been involved. There were people who were born here and those who came to us."
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