Foundation for the Sorbian People

The Foundation for the Sorbian people (Sorbian Załožba za serbski ludⓘ; German: Stiftung für das sorbische Volk) is a nonprofit foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg.

The foundation was established on October 19, 1991, in the Lutheran church of Lohsa by the Federal Republic of Germany and the states of Saxony and Brandenburg.

[3][4] It provides most of the funding for the Sorbian institutions, granting about 23.9 million € annually to the Sorbian National Ensemble, the Domowina including its language center Witaj, the Domowina Publishing House, the Serbski Institut, the German-Sorbian Theater, the Wendish Museum Cottbus and the Sorbian Museum Bautzen.

[5][6] The foundation board consists of fifteen members, whereof six are representatives of the Sorbian people (four form Saxony and two from Brandenburg).

The foundation biennial awards the Ćišinski prize named after the Sorbian poet Jakub Bart-Ćišinski.