In the summer of 2024, forums for art, freedom and democracy will be touring Germany for three months under the title DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN (THE ART OF BEING MANY) and making guest appearances in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Berlin, Potsdam, Erfurt, Weimar and Dresden. In these eight cities, a dense programme of performing arts, discourse and workshops will blossom on market squares and theatre forecourts, on festival stages and in lecture theatres: A Taiwanese dance piece is performed here, two philosophers discuss a humanistic world there and next door, in the transcultural beauty salon, encounters in beauty are practised.
The actors Tina Pfurr and Hauke Heumann are right in the middle of it all. They talk to politicians and international directors, artists and social workers: How do we argue properly again? What drives the people who are defending democracy here in the summer heat? What's the point of all this if there's going to be a safe, far-right summer festival in the same neighbourhood square next week? And what role do the arts play in this - now and in the future?
DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN is a film by Felix Meyer-Christian commissioned by the Fonds Darstellende Künste, which brings together the many voices in the arts and summarises their fight against exclusion and polarisation in a discursive and poetic approach. With: Şeyda Kurt, Sivan Ben Yishai, Awet Tesfaiesus, Sookee, Omri Boehm, Viktor Szeri, Joana Tischkau, Rabih Mroué, Lina Majadalanie, Annett Gröschner, Luce deLire, Carsten Brosda, Aljoscha Begrich, Anica Happich and numerous other voices.
Length: approx. 90 minutes
In German, English and Spanish with English subtitles
Followed by a discussion with the director Felix Meyer-Christian.
Please note:
The film screening and discussion are part of "The Art of Remaining Many. Forum for Art, Freedom and Democracy: Germany & Europe". Already on 21 May 2025 at 19:30 with lectures by Philipp Ruch (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit), Sasha Marianna Salzmann (playwright) and Simon Strauß (author, journalist). Followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Natascha Freundel (rbb) in the Hartmannfabrik.
