After training as an actress in Munich and many years on stage, her love of directing and managing her own projects took over. Stations as assistant director and production manager for musical theater at home and abroad followed. 2013 foundation of the theater label WIR.Jetzt! In 2015, the first theater piece "Talk Talk- Journey Without Escape" was created, an adaptation of the novel Talk Talk by T.C.Boyle for WIR.Jetzt! In 2017 followed a new adaptation of the fairy tale "Der Gestiefelte Kater" for Theater und Philharmonie Thüringen. In 2018, an adaptation of the myths surrounding the Flying Dutchman. The production "Der Fliegende Holländer" for the Klang! Festival Bielefeld was awarded the Förderpreis Klassik. Production management and dramaturgy for theater projects in urban areas followed, as well as artistic direction of the Theaterhaus TiG7 in Mannheim. 2010 to present as freelance director for drama and cross-discipline projects. Since February 2021 Managing Director of the Bad Hersfeld Festival.

Angelika Eder has been the managing director of the Stiftung Genshagen since 2017, where she heads the " Kunst- und Kulturvermittlung in Europa" ("Art and Cultural Education in Europe") department. From 2002 to 2017, she worked at the Goethe-Institut, first as an officer in the "Science and Current Affairs" department at the Munich headquarters, from 2005 to 2009 as the institute director in Krakow, from 2009 to 2013 as the head of program work with a regional specialist assignment at the Goethe-Institut Prague (Regional Institute for Central Eastern Europe), and then as the institute director in St. Petersburg until 2017. Prior to that, she was a research associate at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg for six years and before that, in 1994-96, a DAAD Lecturer at the German Department of the University of Liverpool.

Carena Schlewitt was born in Leipzig in 1961. Since 2018, she has been the artistic director of HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts in Dresden.

She was Director of Kaserne Basel from 2008-2018 and Artistic Director of the Basel International Theater Festival (since 2012). She studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin and worked at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin from 1985 to 1993. She worked as dramaturge, curator and deputy artistic director at various independent production houses (Podewil Berlin; FFT Düsseldorf; HAU Berlin) and at international festivals (Theater der Welt; HAU Berlin).

The focal points of her work have included the transformation processes in East Germany, Eastern Europe and China and the development of theater in Poland, France and Italy as well as live art and performance art. She has served on various juries, including for the "Impulse" festival; for the German-Polish expert panel of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes as well as for the "Doppelpass" program of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes; she was a member of the expert commission of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia.

Carena Schlewitt is a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts, the Saxon Cultural Senate and a member of the Expert Advisory Board for Performing Arts and Music at the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.

Ulrike Seybold has been managing director of the NRW State Office of Independent Performing Arts since January 2020. Since October 2015, she has been an assessor on the board of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts, and from 2013 to the end of 2019, she was the managing director of the State Association of Independent Theatres in Lower Saxony. Before joining the association, she worked for many years as a freelance production manager and press officer for various cultural and theater projects. She studied journalism, history and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum, completed further training as a cultural manager in Neuss, and in parallel pursued journalistic activities for the taz and WDR, among others.

Ella Steinmann studied philosophy and religious studies in Bochum. After working as a project officer in the field of cultural education at Stiftung Mercator in Essen, she moved in 2016 to the Zukunftsakademie NRW, an association for diversity in art, culture, and cultural education. In addition to advising and accompanying cultural institutions, she designed further education and exchange formats there. In the Master Scenic Research in Bochum, she is working on the possibilities of knowledge acquisition through performative art forms. Since July 2019, she is one of the two agents for diversity development within the program "360° - Fonds für Kulturen der neuen Stadtgesellschaft" of the German Federal Cultural Foundation at Theater Oberhausen.

Born in Odenwald in 1982, studied psychology in Berlin and Paris and speech and musical theater direction at the Theaterakademie "August Everding" in Munich. Doctorate (ongoing) "Culture, Operation and Resonance" with Hartmut Rosa and Friedrich von Borries, HfBK Hamburg. Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Gabriele-Oehmisch-Stiftung and the Akademie Musiktheater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation.

As a freelance dramaturg, he has worked for a variety of productions in Germany and abroad (including Kampnagel, Schaubühne, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theater Basel, Alfortville Paris). As founder, director and dramaturg he developed a number of site-specific productions with the independent group O-Team (including "HermannSchlachten" at the Stuttgart Wagenhallen, "Blaupause" in the former editorial building of the Süddeutsche Zeitung or "Kirschgärten" at the Hofgut Oberfeld Darmstadt) and most recently "Flüchtlinge" at the Thalia Theater Hamburg.

From 2011 to 2013 he was head dramaturge/member of the artistic direction at Theaterhaus Jena and in the 2014/2015 season drama director at Staatstheater Darmstadt. He has worked as festival curator and dramaturge (Rodeo Festival Munich, Datterich Festival Darmstadt, Wiesbaden Biennale) and lecturer (LMU and HfMT Munich, HfMT Leipzig, TU Darmstadt, JGU and HfMT Frankfurt, JGU Mainz, EAH and FSU Jena). Zipf directed JenaKultur from 2016 to 2022. Since the 2022/23 season, he has been executive director at Kampnagel Hamburg.