CfA: Individual and Collaborative Fellowships // Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation
The deadline for applications for individual or collaborative fellowships in 2025 has expired on April 15, 23.59 p.m. (Central European Summer Time - CEST). You can apply for a fellowship in 2026 between February 15 and April 15, 23.59 p.m. (CEST) 2025, via an online form that you will find on this page.
GUIDELINES
Legal basis
The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf awards residency fellowships to artists and writers in Schloss Wiepersdorf (State of Brandenburg, Fläming) in accordance with the following guidelines and dependent on the means available pursuant to the regulations of the State Budget Ordinance (LHO) and the administrative regulations (VV) relating to sections 23 and 44. Fellowships are granted at the Foundation’s discretion and no one can claim legal entitlement to a residency fellowship.
Prerequisites
Artists and writers from Germany and abroad working in the following areas are eligible to apply:
• Literature (incl. poetry, prose, dramatic arts, essay, screenplay, criticism, translation)
• Science/Romanticism (Academic writing and research/Humanities and social sciences with themes on the epoch and sentiments of Romanticism)
• Science/Topics focusing on the previously divided Germany (Academic writing and research/Questions relating to the history of East and West Germany during the period of
division)
• Fine arts (incl. painting, graphic arts, sculpture, media arts, and photography)
• Composition (incl. sound design, sound installation, sound performance, conducting)
Applicants must have completed an artistic or academic course of study, be working on a doctorate, or have distinguished themselves through publications or long-standing professional artistic or academic work, and can provide samples of their work to substantiate this.
German or English proficiency is required of all applicants. Basic German language skills would be helpful for a successful residence.
Decisive for the awarding of a fellowship are the quality of the applicant’s previous artistic or academic work and the proposed project.
Not eligible for a fellowship are people who have already received a Schloss Wiepersdorf fellowship in the last two years prior to the application year.