Translation of "Auswärtige kulturpolitik" in English

The Foreign Office centralised its own foreign cultural policies.

I’ve never felt that international cultural relations policy is seen as competing with national cultural policy.

Following from this Article, the Federal authorities and Parliament are responsible for foreign cultural policy.

In the last 20 years, foreign cultural policy has repeatedly suffered from cuts in funding.

Today we need to go one step further when we think of cultural relations policy in the post-colonial era.

In the strictest sense, the concept of "culture" comprises inter alia research on the media, the mastery of language and social integration, and research into libraries, archives and external cultural policy.

Welcome addresses: Sabine Schulze, Director of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe and Sven Murmann, founder of Kursbuch Kulturstiftung and publisher (2:00 PM), Johannes Ebert, Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut and Irmgard Maria Fellner, Commissioner for Foreign Cultural Policy and Deputy Head of Culture and Communication in the German Foreign Office (7:00 PM) Moderation: Katja Freistein und Vladimir Balzer Further information on the participants can be found here .

Heidrun Tempel, Director for Research and Academic Relations Policy and Cultural Relations Policy at the Federal Foreign Office, stressed why Germany is committed to cultural preservation worldwide:

In 2006 and 2007, major conferences were held to highlight the new political importance attributed to foreign cultural policies and to discuss the future developments.

This development of a broad international institute network signals an intensification of Germany's foreign cultural policy.

There has been a Committee or Sub-Committee for External Cultural Policy in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) intermittently since 1969. Currently, it is a sub-committee of the Committee on "Foreign Affairs".

The exhibition has been put together in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO, the Federal Institute of Hydrology and the German Archaeological Institute. It will be officially opened at 5.30 p.m. on 16 September by Andreas Meitzner, Director for Cultural Relations Policy in Europe and Worldwide.

Institut Français As the MAEDI's key operator for cultural diplomacy, the Institut Français is charged with promoting France's cultural action abroad, including artistic exchanges, visual arts, architecture, cinema, ideas and knowledge.

The foreign cultural policy thus paves the way for mutual understanding, an important bedrock for policies committed to the peaceful settlement of ­differences.

Furthermore, in the 1970s the federal parliament had a Commission of Inquiry on "Foreign Cultural Policy".

Cultural relations policy thus creates access to education and culture in three directions: within our societies, between peoples and towards a new unity and solidarity.

To that extent, cultural relations policy is one aspect of foreign policy which itself is an untiring yet unillusioned endeavour towards peace and stability.

In all the projects, since the 1970s foreign cultural policy has emphasised a holistic, non-elitist concept of culture that does not limit "culture" to "art".

The political guidelines establishing the priorities for foreign cultural policy are formulated and coordinated by the Foreign Office.

In addition, until 2012 the Rave Research Prize in Foreign Cultural Policy was presented for outstanding Master’s and Diploma theses or doctoral dissertations in the field of foreign cultural and educational policy.

Germany’s Cultural Relations Policy cannot and must not limit itself to exporting German cultural goods abroad and generously extending reciprocal invitations every now and again.

The collaboration between the state, civil society, research institutes and museums forms a major strength of cultural relations policy. In this joining of forces, cultural relations policy truly means practising and protecting humanity.

Since World War II, foreign cultural politics has traditionally been out of the hands of the Federal Government and promoted instead by Germany's strong system of independent institutes and foundations.

Former Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher once said: “Given our historical background, German cultural relations policy can only be understood as part of a world-wide policy of peace, striving for partnerships among equals.” That is still true in today’s globalized world.

Offering measures to support the learning of German is one focus of German foreign cultural policy in Poland.

The German Pavilion is a remarkable advert for our cultural relations policy.”

As a cultural organisation in cultural relations policy, the German Commission for UNESCO is funded by the Federal Foreign Office.

In the global context, the principal actors and programmes in Germany are those of foreign cultural policy.

Supporting the creative industries is thus a key component of cultural relations policy under Foreign Minister Steinmeier.

The Foreign Office is not directly involved in funding such programmes but allocates the major part of its funds to the mediators of foreign cultural policy such as the Goethe Institute and the Institute for Foreign Relations IfA.

If one takes a glance around Europe for comparison, it be- comes obvious that a focus on "international co- operation for culture and development" is long over- due for German foreign cultural policy.

In the context of their research marketing, the Foundation and its local Ambassador Scientists also cooperate with German partner organisations involved in promoting research as well as intermediary organisations for German foreign cultural policy, such as the German Research Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service in New Delhi.

The major part of the funds made available by the Federal Foreign Office for this purpose go to the mediators of cultural relations policy, in particular to the Goethe Institut in Munich with its dense network of cultural institutes and to the Institute for Foreign Relations in Stuttgart, as well as to the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in Frankfurt to enable them to implement their own programmes in this area.

Since the end of the 1990s, there has been intensive discussion on new aims and instruments of foreign cultural policy, which was reflected, for example, in the position paper "Konzeption 2000" and the "Aktionsplan zivile Krisenprävention, Konfliktlösung und Friedenskonsolidierung" (Action Plan for Civil Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peace Consolidation).

Following the elections on the federal level in 2005 and 2009, political changes took place in the Federal Government and debates on the role of foreign cultural policy ensued.

Under the aegis of our cultural relations policy, we can identify needs and donors from Germany and elsewhere and coordinate them in collaboration with our national and international partners, especially UNESCO.

With the series of events entitled "People on the Move – Festival of Foreign Cultural Policy" the Federal Foreign Office wants to bring cultural relations into the German capital.

The Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History is a jointly endowed professorship awarded by the ICCR, the Indian government's highest-ranking institution for the promotion of its international cultural policies.

German cultural policy in Belgium centres on promoting the German language in schools and universities, awarding scholarships and conducting exchange, travel and award programmes, often in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

At a press conference on Thursday (16 April, 11 a.m.) Werner Wnendt, deputy head of the Federal Foreign Office's Cultural Directorate-General, the Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovich and the Argentinian composer Marcelo Toledo will present the programme of the "Festival of Foreign Cultural Policy.