100 million euros for a new music academy
The state government of the German federal state of Hesse is spending 100 million euros on a new building for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts on the cultural campus in Bockenheim.
According to a statement by Hesse's Minister of Science Boris Rhein, the decision is the result of a meeting of university heads at which the future of university construction in Hesse was discussed together with the 13 Hessian universities and the distribution of funds from the so-called "Heureka II" program to the universities for the period from 2021 to 2026 was determined.
In the further planning processes, the location in the area of the current Juridicum will be examined together with the City of Frankfurt. This is land that is currently still used by Goethe University but will be given up as part of the relocation process.
Various cultural institutes are to be brought together on the planned cultural campus, including the Ensemble Modern and the Forsythe Company, the University of Music and Performing Arts as well as the Institute for Social Research and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society. According to an earlier report by Germany's "Neue Musikzeitung", the Kulturcampus Frankfurt is intended to combine living, working and culture and "transparently connect the Bockenheim and Westend districts".
