Dr.
Thomas Renz

Thomas Renz is a cultural scientist. Since 2020, he has been conducting research on issues of strategic audience development for cultural organizations at the Institute for Cultural Participation Research at the Foundation for Cultural Education and Cultural Consulting in Berlin. From 2017-2020, he served as commercial director and artistic director of the Stadttheater Peiner Festsäle. From 2010 to 2017, he taught and conducted research as a research associate at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim. After completing his doctorate in 2015 on non-visitor research, he conducted widely discussed studies on the socio-economic situation of cultural workers with the 'jazzstudie2016', the 'Report Kirche und Musik' and the study "Zur Lage des Kinder- und Jugendtheaters in Deutschland".