Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship and Residency in Germany - Deadline Oct 31st

I was lucky enough to be a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart Germany. This prestigious fellowship has it all: a monthly stipend, free housing and even a project budget for visual artists! If you're under 35 and are looking for six months to think and work without distraction this is the residency for you.

APPLICATION DEADLINE (POSTMARK): WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
For the fourteenth time, Akademie Schloss Solitude is granting approx. 70 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration.
International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines: Architecture (design, landscape architecture, urban planning), Visual Arts (including performance art), Performing Arts (stage design, dramatic texts, dramaturgy, musical theater, performance, direction, drama, dance), Design (fashion, costume, product and furniture design, visual communication), Literature (essay, criticism, poetry, prose, translation), Music/Sound (interpretation, sound installation, sound performance, composition) and Video/Film/New Media (including video installation, fiction and documentary).
With this year’s application round for residency fellowships from 2013–2015, two further fellowships for filmmakers (fiction and documentary) will be allocated within the discipline Video/Film/New Media. Each residency fellowship is endowed with 10.000 Euro (stipend and project budget) and is awarded in cooperation with the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg.

A specialist juror, jointly selected by the MFG Filmförderung and Akademie Schloss Solitude is responsible for the allocation of the fellowships. The final selection will be made in cooperation with the acting juror for Video/Film/New Media.

The jurors for these two further fellowships from 2013–2015 are Böller und Brot (Wiltrud Baier and Sigrun Köhler). Besides the artistic and filmic quality of the application, the applicant’s interest in cooperating with the film, art, and music scene in Baden-Württemberg will be crucial.
The general application criteria and modalities will apply. Interested persons are asked to apply within the discipline Video/Film/New Media.
Furthermore, scholars, scientists and professionals from the disciplines of the Humanities (including social sciences), Exact Sciences/Computer Sciences (with this year‘s focus on computer science, human computer interaction, electrical engineering, information systems, information science, and free and open source software), Economy/Economics, and Chess are invited to apply.
Persons up to 35 or if older who have completed a university or college degree within the past five years are welcome to apply. Currently enrolled university or college students (at the time of application) will not be considered for selection. Each fellowship recipient is granted Euro 1,100 per month, in addition to free lodging.
The independent jury consists of the jury chairperson Corinne Diserens and eleven specialist jurors who independently allocate the fellowships for their respective disciplines.

The jurors for this year’s application round are: Raqs: Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Visual Arts), Eyal Weizman (Architecture), Bojana Cvejic (Performing Arts), Saâdane Afif (Design), Maxi Obexer (Literature), Jean-Luc Plouvier and Tom Pauwels (Music/Sound) und Jean-Pierre Rehm (Video/Film/New Media). For the art, science & business program: Sarat Maharaj (Humanities), Seda Gürses (Exact Sciences) Akseli Virtanen (Economy/Economics) und Enrique Irazoqui (Chess).
Application deadline is Wednesday, October 31, 2012 (Postmark). As of July 2 (0.00 CET), application forms can ONLY be downloaded from the application website
http://application.akademie-solitude.de/