Executive Board & Board of Trustees
ASSITEJ Germany
Board of ASSITEJ Germany
Katrin Maiwald (she/her)
President
Freelance dramaturge, theatre director and theatre educator, Leipzig
Julia Dina Heße (she/her)
Vice President
Freelance dramaturge/director/ researcher, Tübingen
Lisa Zehetner (she/her)
Vice President
Freelance dramaturge, Düsseldorf
Vincent Kresse (he/him)
Vice President
Freelance theatre director and educator, Erfurt
Johannes Leppin (he/him)
Treasurer
Managing Director, Deutsches Theater Berlin
Additional Board Members
Bianca Sue Henne (she/her)
Head of youth theater at Theater Bremerhaven
Frederic Lilje (he/him)
Deputy Artistic Director, theatre educator at Junges Ensemble Stuttgart
Angela Merl (she/her)
Head of Young Theater and Art & Mediation at Theater Münster
Jakob Jokisch (no pronouns)
Theater manager and theatre director at theater pfütze, Nürnberg
Winfried Tobias (he/him)
Theatre director and dramaturge, designated member of the theater management at GRIPS Theater, Berlin
The KJTZ’s Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees for the KJTZ determines the guidelines for the centre’s work. The board includes representatives from public funding bodies, as well as people from different fields of work within theatre for young audiences. With the exception of the funding body representatives, members of the board of trustees are appointed for three years by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Trustees work on an honorary basis. The current board’s tenure began in 2024 and will end in 2026.
Sponsors
Uta-Christina Biskup (she/her)
Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Department 512 – Extracurricular education for children and young people
Sabine Rehberg (she/her)
Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts
Department IV 2, Theatre and Music
Johannes Promnitz (he/him), Department for Cultural Funding Administration
Department for Culture and Science, Frankfurt am Main
Councillor Dr. Ina Hartwig
Science, research, and education
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lutz-Scheurle (he/him)
Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies – Art and Participation
Prof. Dr. Maike Gunsilius (she/her)
Professor for the Aesthetics of Children’s and Youth Theatre at the Institute for Media, Theatre and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim Foundation
Theatre with children and young people
Bassam Ghazi (he/him)
Theatre educator, director and diversity trainer, artistic director of the Stadt: Kollektiv at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
Elisabeth Hagl (she/her)
Culture and theatre educator, artistic co-director of the Rampenlichter Festival, board member and manager of the CultureClouds association, Munich
Theatre for children and young people
Petra Fischer (she/her)
Freelance dramaturge, theatre educator, festival curator, Zurich (Switzerland)
Anna Vera Kelle (she/her)
Director, member of the management board, and theatre manager at Theater Strahl in Berlin
Cultural policy/youth policy
Prof. Dr. Tom Braun (he/him)
Professor of Culture and Media Education at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Academic Director of the IR Research Centre for Cultural Education and the Digital World
Youth curator
Florian Hecht (he/him)
Project manager for the „youngprojects“ youth event planning office at FEZ in Berlin; BA Events Management student; freelance youth participation consultant