“A quantum leap,” says Daniela Gmachl. With ARGEkultur Salzburg, whose managing director Gmachl is, she is not at all directly affected by the pioneering work of the cultural department of the state of Salzburg: From next year, money will flow in the independent cultural scene from the state budget for “fair pay”. Nowhere else in Austria does this happen. “Some of us are already looking at something from us,” says Heinrich Schellhorn (Greens), LH Deputy. and responsible for the country’s cultural agendas.

“This is a clear change in the cultural policy of …