Mannheim has hit the road. After a process of repositioning stretching over several years, the city is today at a point where it is only aware of its established strengths but also of the big challenges it faces. The strength profile serves as a strategic objective for the future: A detailed process of change tailored to the expansion of existing strengths guarantees that this vision doesn't have o remain a concept but a consistent "From the inside out" development to be implemented over the coming years.
The task is to preserve historical monuments for future generations
Up to the present day, it is a principle of conservation work to preserve monuments as evidence of past times and cultures. They do not only convey history but they are part of history and enable us to “touch history”. Therefore, it is the task of the preservation of monuments to protect these documents as originally as possible in their existing substance and to pass them on to future generations as “genuine” cultural heritage.
The fact that the Mannheim Castle owned one of the earliest and most important collections of European paintings under Karl-Theodor until the French Revolutionary Wars, is hardly known and unfortunately history.
A lively, literary life and its promotion are an essential part of municipal cultural policy for the formation of an urban community.
Apart from experimental text projects which are developed in collectives – such as in the Internet – the authorship of a literary work is mostly a singular act which can subsequently lead to further communication processes, such as dramatic or cinematic manifestations, in the theatre and the film, as a starting point for sound and image producing synaesthesias.