Representative by virtue of office
Member of the Parliament, AFD
Foundation Bodies
The main foundation bodies of Akademie Schloss Solitude are the Foundation Board, the Executive Board and the Board of Trustees.
The Foundation Board consists of a representative of the State Ministry, a representative of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and a representative of the Ministry of Finance of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Foundation Board is the Foundation’s leading body, and supervises the activities of the Executive Board.
The Foundation’s Executive Board constitutes the Akademie’s management team. It is tasked with conducting the business of the Akademie within the framework of the Foundation’s objective.
The Board of Trustees constitutes the following:
- up to twelve prominent individuals from the arts (including at least two each from the fields of fine arts, performing arts, literature and music)
- up to twelve prominent individuals from public life, academe and business who identify with the goals of the Foundation
- two representatives of Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg gGmbH
- one representative of each of the parliamentary groups of the German Landtag (State Parliament)
- one representative from the city of Stuttgart
The Board of Trustees advises the Foundation Board and the Akademie management on all fundamental issues. It elects an Advisory Board from among its members, which provides ongoing support to the Akademie in its capacity as a working committee. The members of the Foundation Board are entitled to attend the meetings of the Board of Trustees in an advisory capacity.
Foundation Board
Jutta Krug
Martin Neumaier
Petra Olschowski
Claudia Rose
Board of Trustees
Rainer Balzer
Matthias Bruhn
Representative of the public sphere
Director of Herrmann von Helmholtz-Zentrum of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jan Bürger
Representative of the sphere of art
Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e. V. / Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Peter Carp
Representative of the sphere of art
Director of Theater Freiburg
Ursula Eid
Representative of the public sphere
State Secretary ret., Berlin
Alexander Farenholtz
Representative of the sphere of art
Former Executive Board/Director of Administration of the Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle
Irmgard Maria Fellner
Representative of the sphere of art
Commissioner for Foreign Cultural Policy at the Federal Foreign Office
Marc Gegenfurtner
Representative by virtue of office
Representative of the state capital, Stuttgart
Head of the Kulturamt Stuttgart
Klaus Harms
Representative of the public sphere
Robert Bosch GmbH
Albrecht Hauff
Representative of the public sphere
Managing Director of Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart
Peter Hofelich
Representative by virtue of office
Member of the state parliament, Social Democratic Party
Leni Hoffmann
Representative by virtue of office
Member of the Advisory Board of Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Wolfgang Holler
Representative of the public sphere
President of museums at Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Florian Höllerer
Representative of the sphere of art
Managing Director of Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
Florian Hölscher
Representative of the public sphere
Vice Prime Minister ret. and Minister of Economics ret. of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Anna Konik
Representative of the sphere of art
Curator, AIR program, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Annette Kulenkampff
Representative of the public sphere
Managing Director of documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, Kassel
Sabine Kurtz
Representative by virtue of office
Member of the state parliament, CDU
Christa Linsenmaier-Wolf
Representative of the public sphere
Director of Kulturamt Fellbach
Anna Lipphardt
Representative of the sphere of art
Professor for cultural sciences, University of Freiburg
Brigitte Lösch
Representative by virtue of office
Member of the state parliament and Vice President of the state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Green Party, Stuttgart
Margareth Obexer
Representative of the sphere of art
Author, Berlin
Simone Rehm
Representative of the public sphere
Vice Rector for Information Technology, University of Stuttgart
Iris Reuther
Representative of the public sphere
Senate Building Director and Head of the department of construction and urban development of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Elke Ritt
Representative of the public sphere
Head of Arts at the British Council Germany, Berlin
Friedrich Schirmer
Representative of the sphere of art
Artistic director of Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen
Sabine Schirra
Representative of the public sphere
Director of Kulturamt Mannheim
Nils Schmid
Representative by virtue of office
Member of the Advisory Board of Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg
Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka
Representative of the sphere of art
Chief Curator, a-i-r laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
Szilvia Szigeti
Representative of the sphere of art
Designer in Budapest
Nico Weinmann
Representative by virtue of office
Member of the Parliament, FDP
Jürgen Wertheimer
Representative of the public sphere
Professor for Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Advisory Board
Jan Bürger
Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e. V. / Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Peter Carp
Director of Theater Freiburg
Marc Gegenfurtner
Representative of the state capital, Stuttgart
Head of the Kulturamt Stuttgart
Klaus Harms
Robert Bosch GmbH
Peter Hofelich
Member of the state parliament, Social Democratic Party
Leni Hoffmann
Member of the Advisory Board of Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Florian Hölscher
Vice Prime Minister ret. and Minister of Economics ret. of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Sabine Kurtz
Member of the state parliament, CDU
Brigitte Lösch
Member of the state parliament and Vice President of the state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Green Party, Stuttgart
Friedrich Schirmer
Artistic director of Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen
Nico Weinmann
Member of the Parliament, FDP