Room to Maneuver
for Arts and Culture

Understanding Artists –

Fostering Culture

I am familiar with cultural life from many perspectives – and, above all, from my own experience. As a musician, musicologist and journalist, as well as a dramaturg, manager and managing director, I have been part of the music world – and, in particular, the orchestral sector – for many years. I am familiar with its structures and dynamics, have held positions of responsibility within them, and have worked closely with conductors, instrumentalists and other artists.

Whilst studying musicology, German and Romance languages at the University of Cologne – a course I completed with a PhD – I undertook artistic training at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf, specialising in the trombone, as well as postgraduate studies in cultural management.

My career path initially led me into journalism. From 1997, I worked on the editorial team of the music magazine ‘Fono Forum’. In 2007, I joined the Bochum Symphony Orchestra as an artistic manager and dramaturg, and in 2012 I moved to the Wuppertal Theatres as orchestra manager. From 2014 to 2022, I was managing director of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, a major regional orchestra based in Recklinghausen.

Since 2017, I have supplemented this professional experience with training and further education in: systemic counselling, systemic coaching and constellation work, mental coaching, mental field techniques and psychokinesiology, mediation with a focus on business, ‘Train the Trainer’ and ‘Next Leadership’.

Today, I view the music and cultural sector from the perspective of a consultant – drawing on many years during which I got to know it from the inside and helped shape it. I now combine this experience with the knowledge and methodologies gained from coaching, training and mediation.