Eckhard Mittelstädt

Born in 1962, he worked in various capacities for Frankfurt's independent theaters during and after his studies of German, sociology and theater studies in Frankfurt am Main. He was Executive Director of ASSITEJ until 2007 and subsequently of the State Association of Independent Theatres in Lower Saxony. From 1999 to 2008 he was Councillor of the Executive Committee of the International ASSITEJ and from 2009 to 2013 Deputy Chairman of the Federal Association of Free Theatres. Until 2018, he was the responsible editor of "IXYPSILONZETT", the magazine for children's and youth theater, and author of numerous articles in specialized books on the subject of cultural education, among other things, and, together with Alexander Pinto, editor of the volume "Freies Theater in Deutschland - Diskurse, Perspektiven und Entwicklungen". Since 2013, he has been project manager of "tanz + theater machen stark" as part of the program Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung at the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts).