Marlene Kunath

Marlene Kunath, born in Berlin and raised on the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein, studied Cultural Studies and Business Administration at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a focus on Postcolonial Theories after her voluntary cultural year at the Humboldt Forum Staff Office. This was followed by a Master's degree in Applied Cultural Studies and Cultural Semiotics at the University of Potsdam from 2018. Along the way, she worked as a student trainee at the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry and, since the end of 2019, in various projects in the department of cultural promotion, museum services and consulting at Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH. These included the Corona Special Grant of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Call for Action #1 of the Draussenstadt initiative, and the Special Fund of the Federal Government for Cultural Events, where she was responsible for advising and reviewing funding applications, among other things. Since April 2022, Marlene Kunath has strengthened the team of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.