Holger Bergmann is a curator, mentor and, as managing director, heads the Fonds Darstellende Künste; he lives in Berlin. He was born in the Ruhr region in 1965. After graduating from a technical school for social pedagogy and working in so-called social hotspots, he studied theater at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1990 to 1995. Founding member and from 2002 to 2014 artistic director of the theater production house Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, which under his direction became known for contemporary performing arts and urban, participatory projects. Own productions at independent theaters and numerous projects with artists and artist collectives of independent theater, often in collaboration with municipal theaters or international festivals. Publications at the Université de Luxembourg, among others. Cultural Capital Representative of the City of Mülheim and curator with a focus on urban space projects in the field of SOCIAL URBAN ART. Artistic director of the theater festival FAVORITEN 2016 in Dortmund. Member of boards of trustees and juries, among others, for the Theaterpreis des Bundes in 2015 and 2017 in the framework of the European Capital of Culture Aarhus (DK). In January 2016 Holger Bergmann took over the management of the Fonds Darstellende Künste in Berlin. In 2016 and 2017 he curated city projects in Dortmund, Duisburg and Bochum. Mentor for the thematic field of interculture for the Capital of Culture application RUHR2010, consultant for theater houses as well as individual management staff and member of the advisory board for the application of the city of Nuremberg for the European Capital of Culture 2025. In mid-2017, he co-founded the cultural-politically engaged association DIE VIELEN.In November 2018, he was elected to the board of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft and has been a member of the Council for Performing Arts and Dance of the German Cultural Council since 2021.

Anne Schulz studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the University of Hildesheim and worked from 2006-2010 as a production manager for Rimini Protokoll, Turbo Pascal and andcompany&Co. She curated X apartments on behalf of HAU Hebbel am Ufer in São Paulo (2009), Warsaw (2010) and Mannheim (2011) and worked interdisciplinary between dramaturgy, production and mediation for the festivals Foreign Affairs in Berlin (2012), Impulse in NRW (2013) and Theater der Welt in Mannheim (2014). From 2015-2020 Anne Schulz was responsible for Kammer 4 You at the Münchner Kammerspiele with a focus on participation, inclusion and diversity.

Contact
anne.schulz@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-13

Michael Wehren, born in 1979, studied theater studies and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Theater Studies there until the end of 2020. His research and work focuses include the topicality of epic theater, intersectional perspectives on classism in the performing arts, body politics and choral dance forms, (re)performances of crime, and the transmedial and transgenerational afterlife of the Holocaust. He has participated in a variety of events, conferences, and symposia, most recently as part of the program team for the International Brecht Society's 16th Symposium Brecht among Strangers/Brecht unter Fremden (2019). Parallel to these activities, he has worked as a director, dramaturg and writer in the independent scene, producing numerous productions, radio plays, performative installations and (audio) walks with the performance and theater group friendly fire since 2010 and with the Brazilian-Israeli-German collective ELEPHANTintheROOM since 2020. Since July 2021 he has been working as a consultant to the management of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Contact
michael.wehren@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-12

Anneke Wiesner, born in Hamburg, studied German, General and Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. After working as a director's and dramaturg's assistant for several years, she worked at the Theatertreffen of the Berliner Festspiele from 2012-2022, first as an assistant and from 2016 as a consultant to the festival management. Here she coordinated (international) cooperation projects, was responsible for the supervision of cooperation partners, managed the mediation program Open Campus and worked on the design and implementation of the conference on gender (in)equality "Burning Issues Meets Theatertreffen" (2019). While working, she completed the certified continuing education courses "Cultural Management, Marketing and Communication" (2013-2014) and "Social Justice and Diversity Training" (2019-2020) at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. From 2019-2022, she also served as an anti-discrimination officer at the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH. In 2023, she took over the administrative management of the Fonds Darstellende Künste as a parental leave substitute.

Since January 2024, she has been responsible for the Theaterpreis des Bundes.

Contact
anneke.wiesner@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-21

Christina Roth studied theater and political science as well as law in Munich and Berlin. After various assistantships, she worked as a staff member at the office of the German Cultural Council from 2005-2007 and at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg from 2007-2008. From 2008-2014 she worked in the communication department at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and in 2015/2016 at the office of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste. At the beginning of 2016, she took over the office management at the Fonds Darstellende Künste and coordinated and supervised, among other things, the applicants and funded projects. Since October 2020, she has been working at the Fonds as an administrative manager.

Contact
christina.roth@fonds-daku.de

Arlette Heyn, born and raised in the Black Forest, moved to Berlin after graduating from high school. Following her training as an office communications clerk and an internship at the Werkstatt der Kulturen, she worked for various film production companies as a film business manager. After further training as a financial accountant, she became self-employed as an accountant specializing in grant accounting and worked for the Yangon Film School association, among others. Prior to her employment at the Fund, she worked at Dieterich Tax Office serving businesses and non-profits. She has been an accountant at the Fonds Darstellende Künste since November 2020.

Contact
arlette.heyn@fonds-daku.de

Christina Röfer, who grew up in the Lower Rhine region, studied theater and media studies as well as German language and literature in Erlangen and completed her master's degree in staging the arts and media at the University of Hildesheim. Her theater studies focus is on figure and object theater; she designed the Theater der Zeit workbook "Der Dinge Stand. Zeitgenössisches Figuren- und Objekttheater" conceptually and editorially and has been an editorial member of the professional journal "double - Magazin für Puppen-, Figuren- und Objekttheater" since 2017. She worked as a staff member at the festival FIDENA - Figurentheater der Nationen in Bochum in the areas of production and ticketing and worked from 2016-2018 in the artistic direction of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. From the end of 2018, she took over the management of the special projects CONFIGURATION, GLOBAL VILLAGE LABS and GLOBAL VILLAGE VENTURES at the Fonds Darstellende Künste and has been working as a permanent staff member and professional team coordinator in the area of funding since 2020.

Contact
christina.roefer@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-22

Robert Hartmann worked as an assistant to Matthias Lilienthal and Carena Schlewitt at the newly founded Hebbel am Ufer before studying acting direction at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin. While still a student, he founded the independent group Prinzip Gonzo together with David Czesienski and Tim Tonndorf, who primarily develop game theater productions. From the beginning, Robert Hartmann has been the production manager of Prinzip Gonzo in addition to his work as a director. Most recently, he has increasingly worked as a composer of theater music. Since October 2020, Robert Hartmann has been working at the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Contact
robert.hartmann@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-25

Anna-Sophie Lüke, born 1985 in Erfurt, studied in Jena. During and after her studies, she worked on her own projects, followed by internships as a dramaturg and assistant dramaturg at various theaters, including Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Volksbühne Berlin and Vienna's Burgtheater with directors René Pollesch and Martin Wuttke. Since 2012 she has worked as a freelance dramaturg. Recent works were "Rastplatz Marzahn" with spreeagenten Berlin and "Bahnwärter Thiel" with Büro Steinheimer. She has also worked as a project coordinator and cultural educator for the German Screenwriters Association, the Schloßtheater Celle and the Kunstmuseum Celle with Sammlung Robert Simon, among others. Anna-Sophie Lüke has been with the Fonds Darstellende Künste since October 2020.

Contact
anna-sophie.lueke@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-24

Jean-Paul Muller comes from Luxembourg-Gasperich and studied comparative literature, history, archaeology and European studies in Bonn and Berlin. As a project and cultural manager, his focus is on transnational and EU-European cultural promotion and ranges from contemporary music, performance and cultural education to minority and human rights policy. Since 2006, Jean-Paul has also worked as an election observer and Election Assistant in international peace missions of the OSCE and the EU. From 2010 to 2012, he worked at the Institute for Foreign Policy at Hamburg's Helmut Schmidt University and from 2017 to 2019 at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in Berlin. In his political science research, Jean-Paul focuses on cross-border cultural policies in post-national and multipolar contexts. He joined the Funding team at the office of the Fonds Darstellende Künste in November 2021.

Contact
jean-paul.muller@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-23

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Marlene Kunath, born in Berlin and raised on the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein, studied Cultural Studies and Business Administration at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a focus on Postcolonial Theories after her voluntary cultural year at the Humboldt Forum Staff Office. This was followed by a Master's degree in Applied Cultural Studies and Cultural Semiotics at the University of Potsdam from 2018. Along the way, she worked as a student trainee at the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry and, since the end of 2019, in various projects in the department of cultural promotion, museum services and consulting at Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH. These included the Corona Special Grant of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Call for Action #1 of the Draussenstadt initiative, and the Special Fund of the Federal Government for Cultural Events, where she was responsible for advising and reviewing funding applications, among other things. Since April 2022, Marlene Kunath has strengthened the team of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Contact
marlene.kunath@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-54

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Nelly Urbina Fernandez is an economist and holds a Master in Public Policy from SciencesPo University. Her academic career and personal interests have taken her to Paris, Geneva, Düsseldorf and finally Berlin. She has 7 years of professional experience - among others - in development, promotion, management and implementation of projects in development cooperation and public service. In Peru, she has worked for the Ministry of Economy, the Federal Audit Office, the District Office and in consulting. She also completed an internship at the United Nations. She joined the team in July 2021 in the area of funding management.

Contact
nelly.urbina@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-53

Thomas Koessler studied theater and media studies in Erlangen and worked for 10 years in film production for international arthouse cinema in Berlin. He then worked as a media consultant in Cairo and for several years for the Goethe-Institut in Iraq. Back in Berlin, Thomas worked as an independent cultural manager from 2020, overseeing publicly funded projects. Since the beginning of 2023, he has been part of the team at Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Contact
thomas.koessler@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-26

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Pascal Vogler studied acting at the Zurich University of the Arts and subsequently worked for 10 years as an actor in various municipal and state theaters in Germany and Switzerland, most recently for four years at the Schlosstheater Celle. For family reasons, he decided to take a break from acting for two years and has now been strengthening the team of the Fonds Darstellende Künste since December.

Contact
pascal.vogler@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-26

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Studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts, and before that, among other things, comparative literature and theater studies in Bochum and Darmstadt. He was co-founder of the theater collective copy & waste, of which he is artistic director and director, as well as managing director since 2014. In 2018, the collective received the George Tabori Award of the Fonds. As a freelance director, Steffen Klewar has also staged at municipal and state theaters such as Schauspiel Leipzig, Staatstheater Darmstadt, or Theater Oberhausen, among others, and with copy & waste at independent (production) houses such as HAU Berlin, Ballhaus Ost, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, and in "non-theater spaces" such as clubs, prefabricated buildings, vineyards, and living rooms. His productions have been shown throughout the German-speaking world as guest performances and at festivals. He is also a narrator for audio books and contributions to radio and television, among other things, and moderates festival openings, award ceremonies and panels, and works regularly at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre as a lecturer in acting.

Contact
steffen.klewar@fonds-daku.de

Lane Peterson was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and studied Visual Rhetoric and German Studies at Bates College (Maine, USA) and Staging of the Arts and Media at the University of Hildesheim. In 2020, Lane Peterson worked in programming and production at transmediale - Festival for Digital Arts and Culture and recently joined the Fuchsbau Festival as part of the programming team. In addition, Lane Peterson has experience in editing and translating publications and academic texts, and most recently worked in the administrative area of the university library at Freie Universität Berlin. Lane Peterson joined the program team at Fonds Darstellende Künste in March 2022.

Contact
lane.peterson@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-43

Anna Kondring studied Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and Staging of Arts and Media at the University of Hildesheim. As a student, she was involved in the curation and organization of theater and art festivals such as Bremer Freiheit and State of the Art, and later worked on the production of the transmediale festival 2019 and the Week of Criticism 2021, and hosted the film podcast of the Neuköllner Wolf Kino. As program coordinator at Urania Berlin, she subsequently organized countless discourse events and contributed to the supporting program of the international group exhibition "Material Nation," among other things. Since March 2023 Anna Kondring strengthens the program team of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Contact
anna.kondring@fonds-daku.de

Eva Stöhr, born and raised in Berlin, studied French, Music & Media and Applied Literature in Berlin and Bordeaux. From 2014 - 2022 she was dramaturg for young audiences at Theater an der Parkaue, Junges Staatstheater Berlin. There she curated festivals, labs and event series and was responsible for participatory formats with children and young people. As a dramaturg she worked with Regina Rossi, Romy Weyrauch & Marie Jordan, Leyla-Claire Rabih, cobratheater.cobra and andcompany & Co, among others. Most recently, she oversaw the focus on inclusive work and residencies by artists with disabilities. She is a founding member of the AG Junges Theater within the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft and was involved in the conception of the annual conference ,,Die Kunst der Begegnung" in June 2022 in Dresden. Since September 2022, she has been leading the new funding program for cultural education Global Village Kids within the framework of Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Contact
eva.stoehr@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-52

Björn Frers studied theater, philosophy, journalism and communication science at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin. This was followed by positions in dramaturgy at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, at the DFG project "The Imaginary in Artistic Performances" at the FU Berlin, and freelance work in the PR field. In 2010 he founded the agency for cultural management björn & björn - Presse, Produktion & Dramaturgie with his partner Björn Pätz. Here he accompanied artists and their projects, festivals and venues of the independent performing arts in the areas of production management as well as press and public relations for ten years. In January 2019, he took over as head of communications for LAFT - Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin and its projects such as the Performing Arts Program and Performing Arts Festival Berlin.

Since October 2020, he has been working for Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

Contact
bjoern.frers@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-33

Anne John, born and raised in Märkisch-Oderland, studied Romance languages and literature and German Studies at the University of Leipzig. In 2014-2017 she worked at the International Theatre Institute (ITI), primarily as a production manager. She supervised several international symposia, the conference "Theatre in Contemporary Europe" (2016 Hildesheim) and two awards of the "Theaterpreis des Bundes" (2015 Berlin | 2017 Stendal). In addition, she coordinated the production of publications, such as "Das Freie Theater im Europa der Gegenwart" (Bielefeld dt. 2016 |engl. 2017), which presents the research results of the Balzan Prize research project headed by Prof. Dr. Manfred Brauneck. In 2017, she supervised events in the series "Tanz medial" (Berlin | Leipzig) for the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland and headed the editorial team of the publication "Tanzland-Reader". This was followed in 2018 by a research project for the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste on continuing education opportunities in the independent performing arts. Since 2015, she has also worked for the Initiative for the Archives of Free Theater, in whose study "Performing the Archive" (Hildesheim 2018) she contributed and for which she organized, among other things, the conception conference (2017 | Munich) and workshops (Cologne | Düsseldorf | Hamburg). Since 2018 she has been working for the Fonds in the field of event management and public relations.

Contact
kommunikation@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-30

Carolin Meyer, born in Berlin, studied theater studies and journalism and communications at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. During her studies, she worked as a cultural journalist for a Berlin city magazine and the 17th International Schiller Days in Mannheim, completed internships and job shadowing, including at the GRIPS Theater and the independent dance company MS Schrittmacher. She also took over as assistant director for the production of Thomas Brasch's "Lovely Rita" at Theater im Kino, directed by Julia Beil Amarilla. Her first engagement after graduation took her to the Landestheater Detmold. There she worked as a press and public relations officer from 2015 to 2018 and took over the public relations for the NRW-Theatertreffen 2017. From 2018 to 2020 she was engaged as a dramaturg for press and public relations at Theater Ulm.

Contact
carolin.meyer@fonds-daku.de
030 6293126-32