{"id":11939,"date":"2026-09-12T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:05:19","slug":"artistic-freedom-in-politically-difficult-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/artistic-freedom-in-politically-difficult-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic Freedom in Politically Difficult Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we read the programmes of the far right\u2014and even of the not quite so far right\u2014which is currently gaining ground across large parts of Europe, we can only be concerned about the future of our theatres, orchestras and public broadcasters. However, the conviction that no one can continue producing without regard for the interests of the audience has now become established everywhere, and this has certainly had positive effects. If funding should become tied to a commitment to \u201cnational\u201d culture, the scope for artistic freedom will become very narrow indeed\u00a0\u2026 even if it is repeatedly stressed that these are not bans\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we read the programmes of the far right\u2014and even of the not quite so far right\u2014which is currently gaining\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2026-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11940,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions\/11940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}