Corona pandemic strikes hard on the world's cultural workers who are now without a mission. In Berlin, the city, in collaboration with a local bank, has launched a grant system to prevent small businesses and artists from going bankrupt.
An individual freelancer can get up to SEK 50,000 and smaller companies up to SEK 150,000, writes Artnet News.
More than 50,000 applications have been received so far and more than EUR 500 million have already been paid out, according to a spokesman from the Ministry of Culture in Berlin.
"I was number 110,000 in the queue," artist Zuzanna Czebatul told Artnet News on Sunday, but only a day later she had SEK 50,000 in the account.
bbk Berlin, Berlin's industry association for visual artists, estimates more than half of the city's artists will lose over 75 percent of their monthly income, due to the corona virus.