Our staff
Here we are! That is to say, here are the people who make up the ASSITEJ, the Children’s and Youth Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany (KJTZ), Pathways into Theatre (Wege ins Theater), and CULTURAL RESET – Young Audiences (NEUSTART KULTUR – Junges Publikum). Here you can find more information about our teams, as well as the different points of contact.
ASSITEJ
Anna Eitzeroth (she/her)
Managing director, ASSITEJ
is interested in the participation of children and young people in theatre, participation-oriented discussion formats and moderation styles, vermicompost, and sourdough recipes.
Simone Glatt (she/her)
Member management and assistant to the head office
is interested in dismantling classism in theatre, as well as the aesthetics of theatre for young audiences.
Email: assitej@jungespublikum.de
Julia Kizhukandayil (she/her)
Project manager, CHANGING:PERSPECTIVES
is interested in meaningful encounters, both through and in protected spaces.
Céline Bartholomaeus (she/her)
Project manager, CHANGING:PERSPECTIVES
especially loves her dog and all kinds of games, in addition to theatre and political education.
Children’s and Youth Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany (KJTZ)
Julia Abdennadeur (she/her)
Accounts
focuses on bookkeeping, as well as the accounting for payroll and travel expenses.
EDP
Technical support
focuses on monitoring and optimising the organisation’s IT infrastructure.
Email: edv@jungespublikum.de
Valerie Eichmann (she/her)
Child and youth participation
is interested in exchanging perspectives, having discussions, and the question of what the theatre of tomorrow will look like. Who will design it? What will there be to see and experience?
Email: v.eichmann@jungespublikum.de
Anne-Sophie Garthe (she/her)
Documentation and digitalisation, data protection officer for the ASSITEJ e.V.
is interested in theatre collections and their diverse array of assets, analogue and digital collection management, finding treasures which are yet to be discovered, and all of the curious visitors. And don’t forget – data protection!
Email: a.garthe@jungespublikum.de; datenschutz@jungespublikum.de
Kris Grün (she/her)
Project assistant, child and youth participation
is interested in the particpation of children and young people (not just in theatre, but especially in this field), interactive performances and theatrical formats, and drag.
Email: k.gruen@augenblickmal.de
Hanna Lena Hohmann (she/her)
Project assistantfor the Frankfurt Youth Theatre Forum
is interested in registration forms, intergenerational theatre, and team meetings with cake.
Email: forum@jungespublikum.de
Annett Israel (sie/ihr)
Employee in the Berlin project office
focuses on the organisation of AUGENBLICK MAL! and contemporary musical theatre for young audiences, and is interested in how we want to live together, as well as in the performing arts practitioners who, together with their young audiences, explore this question seriously in the theatre, using it as a space in which to play and explore the possibilities.
Email: a.israel@jungespublikum.de
Gabriela Mayungu (she/her)
Diversity officer
is interested in ensuring our projects and events are inclusive and critical of discriminatory practices, political education, and breaking down barriers and obstacles in theatre for young audiences.
Email: g.mayungu@jungespublikum.de
Heide Ottenroth (she/her)
Information and documentation
focsues on recording and cataloguing new acquisitions, conservation, research, and consulting.
Nikola Schellmann (she/her)
Communications, professional discourse, and project manager and curator for the Frankfurt Young Theatre Forum
is interested in the different discussion formats which shape people’s conversations about performing arts, and the structures in which to develop these discussion.
Lisa Stumpf (she/her)
Finances and cost control
is interested in theatre, political education, cultural policy, a resource-efficient lifestyle, and camping in a minibus.
Email: l.stumpf@jungespublikum.de
Prof. Dr. Gerd Taube (he/him)
KJTZ manager and artistic director of AUGENBLICK MAL!
focuses on playwriting for young audiences, theatre for the youngest audiences, and the theory and history of theatre for children and young people.
Email: g.taube@jungespublikum.de
Melanie Wagner (she/her)
Office administrator
is interested in organisation and administration, likes to think outside the box both as an external and internal point of contact, and enjoys supporting the team, as well as travelling to other countries.
Email: m.wagner@jungespublikum.de
CULTURAL RESET - Young Audiences (NEUSTART KULTUR - Junges Publikum)
Geza Georg Adasz (he/him)
Subproject Manager, Evaluation and Data Analysis
is interested in hands-on approaches that go beyond simple DIY, as well as in the interconnected nature of everything within the intricate web we call our universe, and is open to all forms of culinary journeys.
Email: g.adasz@assitej.de
Valerie Eichmann (she/her)
Networking and training officer
is interested in exchanging perspectives, having discussions, and the question of what the theatre of tomorrow will look like. Who will design it? What will there be to see and experience?
Email: v.eichmann@jungespublikum.de
Swetlana Gorich (she/her)
Deputy project manager
is interested in different forms of art and artistic communication, artistic encounters, chance interactions, and the accessiblity and poetic nature of language.
Email: s.gorich@assitej.de
Stefanie Hartung (she/her)
Applications administrator
is interested in your applications, well-thought out budgets, and cultural funding in general, and has a weakness for well-designed and inclusive children’s books as well as chocolate.
Email: s.hartung@assitej.de
Daniela Halpick (she/her)
Applications administrator
is interested in interdisciplinary forms of theatre and performance, music and music history, cultural perspectives on social change in urban and rural areas, and cultural education, and finds it difficult tear herself away from a good book.
Email: d.halpick@assitej.de
Marthe Labes (she/her)
Applications administrator
is interested in stage and costume design, experimental forms of theatre, and production development that includes people of all ages – as well as the sea.
Email: m.labes@assitej.de
Stefanie Lesovsky (she/her)
Project manager
Is interested in the structures involved in art and its production, as well as virtual artistic programmes, and has recently discovered her passion for paragraphs.
Email: s.lesovsky@assitej.de
Kerstin Lorenz (she/her)
Team manager
is interested in cultural communication and networking (especially in urban districts and rural areas), the intersection of marketing and customer service, and regional dialects.
Email: k.lorenz@assitej.de
Marina Merryweather (they/them)
Applications administrator
is interested in language and the effects society has on its use and development, writing stories and plays, and discovering new cocktails and countries.
Email: m.merryweather@assitej.de
Judith Rohrbeck (she/her)
Administrative assistant
is interested in cultural education, interactive theatre, and municipal gardening.
Email: j.rohrbeck@assitej.de
Sylvia Wurche (sie/ihr)
Accounts
is interested in numbers, nature (whether it contains a dacha or not), and mushrooms of all shapes and sizes.
Pathways into Theatre (Wege ins Theater)
Nele Beinborn (she/her)
Deputy project manager
is interested in changing systems and structures, youth theatre that handles topics relating to mental health, and sugar-free lemonade.
Email: n.beinborn@jungespublikum.de
Jennifer Köhler (sie/ihr)
Project manager
is interested in interacting with children in ways oriented around their attachments and needs, team dynamics, campsites, and flowerbeds for perennial plants.
Email: j.koehler@jungespublikum.de
Rui Wu (she/her)
Administrative assistant
is interested in the dynamics of the boundary between the private and public spheres in the context of theatre, as well as in questions, heroines, scripted reality television, and redeeming vouchers.
