Klaus A. Schröder announces resignations and suggests doing without theater.
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“The Albertina must be prepared for theft, fire and hackers, but not for a pandemic,” said Klaus A. Schröder in an interview with the Courier. He misses innovative political ideas in this regard. It needs “a fair distribution key”.
The museum’s financial security will be used up by the end of the year. If the government does not promise sufficient funds for 2021 at the budget speech in autumn, he will have to lay off employees. Whether expensive exhibitions such as “Munch and the Consequences”, which should be on view from February 2021, can be financed in the future, is up to date the stars.
He could not understand the importance of the theater these days, but should forego it until the situation is under control. “I can’t understand this sentence: ‘We insist on our right to play theater because it’s food.’ I have a different concept of food, a more tangible one: It would be better for more people to be able to live – and now we can get by without theater. “
Vienna museums are empty
If there are only 300,000 visitors instead of a million, Schröder sees the future as black. Almost all museums in Vienna have reopened since the beginning of July, albeit with little public interest. In addition to the Albertina (around 73,000 visitors in 2019, 20,000 this year), art history is also recording losses: in the first half of 2020 there were fewer than a third of the visitors compared to the same period in the previous year. 30,000 people visited the Belvedere in July, compared with 150,000 this month in the previous year. (jw)
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