Bea Kießlinger

The Fonds was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Bea Kießlinger. She represented the Dachverband Tanz in the Fonds Darstellende Künste on many occasions. We will always remember her dedicated work for dance and especially for the independent dancers and choreographers. An obituary for Bea Kießlinger appeared in the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

Bea Kießlinger studied architecture and taught at the TU Stuttgart on the subject of movement and space. In her work, she has focused on contemporary dance for many years, as managing director of cultural institutions, networker, artistic project manager, curator, dramaturg, juror and advocate. She directed Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt e.V. Ludwigsburg from 1998 to 2007, was a member of the management team of Tanzplattform Deutschland in Stuttgart in 2006, and worked at Theaterhaus Stuttgart as artistic director. In 2009, she founded the state-wide network "TanzSzene BW," on whose board she is still active today. For the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland, Bea Kießlinger was involved in the board from 2010 to 2017, is a member of the initiative group Stadt-Land-Bund, and has led the cultural policy dialogue in the funding program TANZPAKT Stadt Land Bund since 2017. For the umbrella organization Tanz, she is also charged with maintaining regular cultural-political exchange with other associations such as the German Cultural Council, the Alliance of the Liberal Arts, and the Action Alliance for the Performing Arts, and with further developing dance topics in terms of content.