Nederlands:SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn (Q176580)

The SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn is one of the biggest foundations for culture in Germany. There are three institutions within the foundation: the Photographische Sammlung with the August Sander Archiv, the Deutsche Tanzarchiv Köln and the Forum Köln with the Akademie för uns Kölsche Sproch. The foundation operates in literature, dance and media (including artfilms and mediaart). The SK Stiftung organises prices: the Tanz- und Theaterpreise, the Deutschen Videotanzpreis and the Tanzwissenschaftspreis, the annual VG Bildkunst Preis für Experimentellen Film and the bi-annual price for a filmmaker in the context of the KunstFilmBiennale Köln.

Birgit Hauska : curator and programming at SK Stiftung Kultur / Dance, Film and Media, Cologne, Germany. Since 1994 expert for dance and media at the SK Stiftung Kultur in charge of the following projects: a video library with a main focus on video dance, the dance film series "TANZ-Geschichten" and the open-air TANZ- Filmnächte at the Cologne Summer Festival, the German Video Dance Prize, curator for national and international festivals, European cooperation within "édition à voir" (edition on the history of video dance), direction and organisation of the 7th dance screen Festival in 1999 (Mediapark Cologne), artistic direction of Grenzgänge 2001 (Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne) and tanzmedial - a crossover of installation, photography and film in the SK Stiftung Kultur at the Mediapark Cologne (10.12. 2003 - 1.2.2004) idea and concept of JUMP CUT Nights and the festival JUMP CUT SPECIAL