US EditionBerlin culture official quits after funding cut backlash
- Joe Chialo, Berlin’s leading culture official, stepped down last Friday following widespread criticism over reductions in funding for the city’s arts institutions.
- The resignation followed public anger and protests triggered by planned budget reductions affecting clubs, theatres, and orchestras.
- Chialo, a 54-year-old member of the conservative CDU party and contender for national culture minister, had defended the cost-saving measures last year despite facing protests and boos.
- He expressed that if key political and professional objectives can no longer be achieved, it is appropriate to resign and allow someone else to take over, and he cautioned that the proposed budget cuts might force the closure of several well-known cultural institutions.
- Chialo’s departure highlights tensions between cultural stakeholders and the CDU-led incoming government under Friedrich Merz amid ongoing challenges in funding and public backlash.
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Berlin culture official quits after funding cut backlash
Berlin's top culture official resigned Friday amid controversy over arts funding cuts that critics had warned would do massive damage to the capital city's famed clubs, theatres and orchestras.
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