Maria Gebhardt

Maria Gebhardt, born in 1988 in Saxony-Anhalt, studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice in Hildesheim and Paris.

Her professional biography was shaped by positions in the management of the independent production and performance venue Theaterhaus Hildesheim, as a project officer at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel, and since 2017 in the management of the interest group Landeszentrum Freies Theater Sachsen-Anhalt. Since 2019, Maria Gebhardt has been a member of the board of the Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Conference.

Core topics of her work are the empowerment of independent artists through consulting, the participation in structural improvements of funding procedures and framework conditions of cultural funding as well as the initiation of measures to improve the visibility of the independent scene as a landscape. Her own artistic practice has always taken place backstage in the areas of dramaturgy, production, scenography and technology.