Sarah Wedl-Wilson: “We have an incredibly high budget” | EUROtoday

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THE TIME: Ms. Wedl-Wilson, we hear from the Berlin cultural sector that the joy surrounding the cuts has subsided. How did you handle this – and what’s the present temper between the senator and the cultural scene?

Sarah Weddle-Wilson: We are in dialog. And I believe that is a very powerful factor. I depend on communication. But we’ve to truthfully ask ourselves: What do we’ve to grasp, how far can we go as a Senate administration? How a lot cash is offered? Those working in tradition must be simply as trustworthy: What can we obtain and what could be the implications if we cross this or that crimson line? Just final Friday I had a very laborious dialog with Thomas Ostermeier from the Schaubühne – on web site, within the theater. This does not work from the ivory tower of my workplace within the Senate administration.

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