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By ANDREW POWELL MUNICH \u2014 Bavaria\u2019s Culture Ministry, responsible for Bayerische Staatsoper<\/a> and Staatstheater am G\u00e4rtnerplatz<\/a>, among many other entities, underwent a sudden double shake-up this morning with the firing of its cheerful chief, Ludwig Spaenle, and an organizational severing into two parts.<\/p>\n Bernd Sibler<\/a>, 47, is the new Kultusminister<\/em>. The former Bayerisches Staatsministerium f\u00fcr Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst (Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and Art) is now two ministries<\/a>, divided at that comma for the third time in its history. In a more subtle change, the word Bildung (learning) has been replaced with the sterner term Unterricht (instruction).<\/p>\n The shake-up came at the behest of Bavaria\u2019s forceful new Minister-Pr\u00e4sident<\/em>, Markus S\u00f6der<\/a>, 51, who replaced Horst Seehofer<\/a> when the latter joined Angela Merkel<\/a>\u2019s cabinet in Berlin last week as Federal Minister of the Interior. (The two are pictured.) Merkel and Seehofer, who differ on the sore topic of immigration, belong to the CDU<\/a> party and its Bavarian ally, the CSU<\/a>, respectively. S\u00f6der and Sibler are CSU members.<\/p>\n It is unclear what moves S\u00f6der, through Sibler, will make on Bavaria\u2019s lavish arts budgets<\/a>. He has been Seehofer\u2019s Finanzminister<\/em> these last seven years, and known as a fiscal hawk not much connected to the classical music scene.<\/p>\n Bavarian King Ludwig I established the Culture Ministry in 1847, soon broadening it to embrace \u201call aspects of upbringing, instruction, morals, spiritual and artistic learning, and the institutions for them.\u201d It became a state body in 1918, when the monarchy fell; a purveyor of Nazi ideology in schools and universities, art and culture, in 1933; and a champion of freedom, rule of law, and democracy after the Second World War.<\/p>\n Minister-Pr\u00e4sident<\/em> Franz Josef Strau\u00df<\/a> in 1986 was the first to divide the ministry, on the pattern now mimicked by S\u00f6der. It was reunited in 1990, divided again eight years later, and reunited in 2013. Its spiritual mandate never disappeared: Kultus means worship, or adoration, as well as culture.<\/p>\n Photo \u00a9 Deutsche Presse-Agentur<\/p>\n Related posts:
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