Funding and Support
Society of Friends
We, the Society of Friends, stand for:
- Commitment to the university
- Support for students
We help by:
- Scholarships for attending competitions and master classes
- Scholarships to supplement living expenses
- Grants and loans for the purchase, repair, and insurance of instruments
- Scholarships for attending preparatory classes
We are already supported by about 800 members, additional donors, and various institutions.
We would be pleased to welcome you as a friend of the university and a supporter of the students.
Homepage of the Society of Friends
Chairman
Dr. Stefan Völker
Vice Chairmen
Hans Georg Koch
Harald Gall
Members of the Board
Dr. Cornelia Weidner
KS Axel Köhler (President)
Contact persons:
Elena Argiriou (Member Affairs)
Claudia Heupel (Student Affairs)
About the Society of Friends:
In 2023, the Society of Friends of the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart e.V. celebrated its 70th birthday. For such a long time, it has been supporting students both materially and ideologically. The association's name - Society of Friends - is taken very literally: around 800 members, for example, help alleviate students' social emergencies, facilitate participation in master classes and competitions by providing travel cost assistance, or support the acquisition of expensive instruments.
Donations from organizations supplement the funds contributed by members. As a result, the association has a six-figure amount available annually for the mentioned purposes.
In 2009, a merger took place with the "Verein zur Förderung des Wilhelma Theaters e.V.," founded in 1987, as the purposes of both associations had increasingly converged over time. The Alumni Association of the university, established in 2005, also became part of the "Society of Friends" in the same year.
In addition to supporting students, the association is dedicated to maintaining contact with supporters and friends of the university. Through scholarship concerts, tours, lectures, or discussion concerts, members of the association gain direct insights into the work at the university.
Foundation of the University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart
In 2010, the Foundation of the University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart was established, which is exclusively dedicated to supporting the university and is also open to endowments.
Stuttgart foundations
The university is also regularly supported by Stuttgart foundations. It is worth mentioning here the "Stiftung Kunst udn Kultur der Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg", the "Stiftung der LBBW", the "Baden-Württemberg Stiftung", the "Musikstiftung der L-Bank", the "Helmut Nanz Stiftung", the "Berthold Leibinger Stiftung", the "Robert Bosch Stiftung", the "Péter Horváth Stiftung", the "Carin Riesen Stiftung", the "Reinhold Otto Mayer Stiftung", the "Gert-Volker-Dill-Stiftung", the "Guadagnini Stiftung", the "Domnick Stiftung", the "Addy von Holtzbrinck Stiftung", the Rotary Club Stuttgart-Weinsteige, and the German-American Women’s Club.
