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After the argument about anti-Semitic art at Documenta 15, the supervisory board met on Friday evening.

The meeting had only ended late in the night and the result, in particular whether the Documenta General Director Sabine Schormann should be recalled as Managing Director or would stay on, was only announced at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, after Schormann had initially told the Documenta curators Ruangrupa " inform internally".

So now the supervisory board of the art exhibition says: It was mutually agreed to terminate Schormann's contract of employment.

An interim successor will initially be sought.

The supervisory board thus drew the conclusion from the massive criticism of Schormann in the anti-Semitism scandal at this year's world art show.

Stefan Trinks

Editor in the Feuilleton.

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Ten people belong to the Documenta's decisive supervisory board, they are representatives of the city of Kassel and the state of Hesse.

The federal government was not represented in the supervisory board meeting on Friday night because it has not held the two mandates to which it is entitled since 2018.

Clear distance

The diametrically opposed views of the two shareholders had already become apparent before the meeting: on the one hand, the chairman of the supervisory board and mayor of the city of Kassel, Christian Geselle (SPD), who until the very end stood behind the general director Schormann, whom he had selected after the last Documenta.

In contrast, Hesse's art minister Angela Dorn (Greens) as deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board has kept a clear distance from Schormann in recent weeks: after the anti-Semitism scandal, she sent Schormann a comprehensive catalog of questions and publicly criticized her refusal to assume responsibility.

Like her party colleague, Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth from the Greens, Dorn calls for structural changes to the art show.

"We need a structure that can give us recommendations for the current Documenta, but also for the future," said Dorn just last Thursday in the Hessian state parliament.

"We have come to a point where we all have to realize that some processes in crisis management are not going well." It is therefore essential that the supervisory board also deals with responsibilities and the processing of errors.

As the spokesman for the Hessian Minister of Art Dorn put it diplomatically after the nightly marathon of talks: "There could have been results of the meeting for which a weekend would have been more difficult to shoot."