Anne Schneider

Anne Schneider is a freelance director, conceptual designer and moderator. She is a founding member of the collectives MischPULK (Hamburg) and Kollektiv nachhaltige Kultur (Berlin). From 2017 to February 2021 she worked as the executive director of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste, and from 2014 to 2017 she was the artistic director of the festival Hauptsache Frei, after having directed the Kaltstart Festival in the years before.

In 2021, Anne Schneider conceived and moderated a participatory evaluation process on the funding structure for the independent performing arts in Munich on behalf of the Munich Department of Culture. Since 2021, she has also been working closely with Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel to create a digital archive of the venue. She has been and is a member of various juries and advisory boards, such as the advisory board of LOFFT Das Theater or the jury for the awarding of top funding in NRW.