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

Esther Pfalzer

Regierungsdirektorin, Ministerium für Finanzen Baden-Württemberg

Martin Neumaier

Ministerialrat, Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg

Dr. Claudia Rose

Ministerialdirigentin und Leiterin der Abteilung Kunst, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

Board of Trustees

Representatives of the sphere of art

Dr. Jan Bürger

Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e. V., Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

Alexander Farenholtz

Retired administrative director of Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Halle

Irmgard Maria Fellner

Director for Cultural Relations Policy and Deputy Head of the Directorate-General for Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office

Dr. Annika Hampel

Scientific manager at Max Planck Society, Freiburg im Breisgau

Prof. Florian Hoelscher

Member of Ensemble Ascolta, Stuttgart

Anna Konik

Artist, Warsaw

Prof. Mark Kwami

Designer, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Anna Lipphardt

Professor of Cultural Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Margareth Obexer

Author, Berlin

Prasanna Oommen

Moderator, Public Relations Specialist, Author, Cologne
Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

Dieter Ripberger

Director of Zimmertheater, Tübingen

Gitte Zschoch

General Secretary, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart

Representatives of the public sphere

Prof. Danica Dakic

Professor and program director at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Galizia

Professor for zoology and neurobiology and head of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz

Julia Grosse

Art historian and curator, Berlin

Dr. Ing. Klaus Harms

Robert Bosch GmbH, Vaihingen/Enz

Dr. h. c. Albrecht Hauff

Managing director, Georg Thieme Verlag (publishing company), Stuttgart

Dr. phil. Andreas Kaminski

Head of High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart

Anh-Linh Ngo

Architect, Berlin

Cem Özdemir

Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Berlin
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

Dr. Simone Rehm

Vice Rector for Information Technology, University of Stuttgart

Sabine Schirra

Head of Kulturamt (Cultural Office) Mannheim

Ülkü Süngün

Artist, Stuttgart

Representatives by virtue of office

Dr. Rainer Balzer

Member of the state parliament, AfD, Bruchsal

Stephen Brauer

Member of the state parliament, FDP, Crailsheim

Marc Gegenfurtner

Head of Kulturamt (Cultural Office) Stuttgart

Prof. Leni Hoffmann

Member of the Advisory Board of Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

Erwin Köhler

Member of the state parliament, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Stuttgart

Dr. Nils Schmid

Member of the German Bundestag, Member of the Advisory Board of Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

Katrin Steinhülb-Joos

Member of the state parliament, SPD, Stuttgart

Andreas Sturm

Member of the state parliament, CDU, Hockenheim

Advisory Board