500.000 euros for HfMDK students - the funding year 2024

With around 500,000 eu­ros in do­na­ti­ons, the So­cie­ty of Fri­ends and Pa­trons of the HfMDK (GFF) awar­ded a lar­ge num­ber of scho­l­ar­ships, pri­zes and grants to young ar­tists at the HfMDK in 2024. It is a gre­at suc­cess for the GFF that the amount of fun­ding could be main­tai­ned at a si­mi­lar­ly high le­vel as in the pre­vious year. This sup­port is more than just fi­nan­ci­al aid - it is a strong si­gnal of appre­cia­ti­on for the art and crea­ti­ve po­ten­ti­al of the stu­dents.

The fol­lo­wing scho­l­ar­ships and pro­jec­ts in par­ti­cu­lar made the 2024 do­na­ti­ons pos­si­ble.

The Deutsch­land­sti­pen­di­um gi­ves ta­len­ted stu­dents the op­por­tu­ni­ty to con­cen­tra­te ful­ly on their ar­tis­tic edu­ca­ti­on wi­t­hout ha­ving to worry about fi­nan­ci­al bur­dens. In 2024, the HfMDK was able to award a to­tal of 99 scho­l­ar­ships - a new re­cord! 73 scho­l­ar­ships were fun­ded by the fe­deral go­vernment, while the GFF took over the matching for a fur­ther 26 scho­l­ar­ships. With a to­tal fun­ding amount of 200,250 eu­ros, this pro­ject is one of the GFF's lar­gest and most im­portant in­itia­ti­ves.

Ano­t­her out­stan­ding fun­ding pro­ject is the En­sem­ble Scho­l­ar­ship, which sup­ports cham­ber mu­sic en­sem­bles that are al­rea­dy play­ing at an ad­van­ced le­vel. With an an­nu­al grant of 20,000 eu­ros, this scho­l­ar­ship en­ab­les the en­sem­bles to con­cen­tra­te ful­ly on pre­pa­ring for their tran­si­ti­on from stu­dies to pro­fes­sio­nal life. It is a si­gni­fi­cant con­tri­bu­ti­on to en­su­ring that the young mu­si­ci­ans not only com­ple­te their ar­tis­tic trai­ning, but also mas­ter the ent­ry into a pro­fes­sio­nal ca­re­er as a trio or quar­tet.

In ad­di­ti­on to the tra­di­tio­nal scho­l­ar­ships, the GFF also fi­nan­ces unusu­al for­mats at the uni­ver­si­ty: a par­ti­cu­lar examp­le of this is the con­cert se­ries "Vor­aus­hö­ren", which ta­kes place in coope­ra­ti­on with the Holz­hau­sen­schlöss­chen and is spon­so­red by the Ro­ta­ry Club Frank­furt am Main/Rö­mer. Here, stu­dents have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to pre­sent their works in an ex­clu­si­ve set­ting and in­spi­re the au­di­ence with ex­tra­or­di­na­ry pro­grams. The se­ries en­su­res that the stu­dents not only shi­ne on sta­ge, but also con­ti­nue to de­ve­lop in dia­log with the au­di­ence.

The dra­ma de­part­ment at the HfMDK also be­ne­fi­ted from the sup­port of the GFF in 2024: one out­stan­ding event was the dra­ma school mee­ting (Schau­spiel­schul­tref­fen), whe­re around 180 dra­ma stu­dents and 350 guests from Ger­ma­ny, Aus­tria and Switz­er­land came tog­e­ther to pre­sent their pro­duc­tions and net­work with each other. This ex­chan­ge not only pro­vi­ded a plat­form for the young ta­lents, but also a va­lu­able op­por­tu­ni­ty to dis­cuss their own trai­ning and re­cei­ve feed­back.

The ac­ting work­shops fi­nan­ced by the GFF were also par­ti­cu­lar­ly suc­cess­ful: The ex­cel­lence work­shop with the re­now­ned ac­tress Su­san­ne Wolf and the back­stage work­shop with Va­le­ry Tsche­pla­no­wa, spon­so­red by Wal­ter H. Krä­mer, gave stu­dents va­lu­able tips for their tran­si­ti­on into a pro­fes­sio­nal ac­ting ca­re­er.

Thanks to their ge­nerous sup­port, the fri­ends and spon­sors of the uni­ver­si­ty make a de­cisi­ve con­tri­bu­ti­on to en­su­ring that young ar­tists at the HfMDK can not only com­ple­te their crea­ti­ve trai­ning, but also make a suc­cess­ful start to their pro­fes­sio­nal fu­ture.

We would like to thank all do­nors for their com­mit­ment and their gre­at so­li­da­ri­ty!