Main aims:
Protecting artists and cultural professionals who are at risk or experiencing persecution and providing them with places of shelter; promoting artistic freedom and freedom of opinion in all countries; campaigning for international solidarity; enabling concrete advisory programmes and projects in Germany; promoting networking between German and international actors
Target groups:
Artists and cultural professionals from the realms of literature, visual arts, film, performing arts and music who are professionally or personally at risk in their countries of origin
Expected results:
Boosting the public perception of the fellows in Berlin and effectively building their connections
Fellowship awarded and housing provided to one ICORN fellow in 2019; fellow established a good network in Berlin, performed for a large audience on World Poetry Day, 20 March, and gave two lectures at Freie Universitat Berlin; trilingual publication released
EU50,000 (2019)