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

Government Director, Ministry of Finance Baden-Württemberg

Martin Neumaier

Ministerial Counselor, State Ministry Baden-Württemberg

Dr. Claudia Rose

Ministerial Director and Head of the Department of Art, Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

Board of Trustees

Representatives of the sphere of art

Prof. Ludger Engels

Artistic director and managing director, Akademie für Darstellende Kunst, Ludwigsburg

Dr. Annika Hampel

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau

Christian Holtzhauer

Director Nationaltheater Mannheim

Dr. Holger Kube Ventura

Director Kunstmuseum Reutlingen | konkret

Mark Kwami

Designer, Berlin

Prasanna Oommen

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

Dieter Ripberger

Dramaturge & Cultural Manager, Tübingen

Marcus Schmickler

Composer, Cologne/Graz

Prof. Dr. Bonaventure
Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Hortensia Völckers

Former Artistic Director of Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin

Prof. Susanne M.
Winterling

Artist and Professor for Art and Craft, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Gitte Zschoch

General Secretary, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart

Representatives of the public sphere

Anna Bartels

Foreign Cultural Policy, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Dr. Hans Peter Buohler

Program Director for Non-Fiction and Fiction, reclam Verlag, Ditzingen

Prof. Danica Dakic

Artist & Professor, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Galizia

Head of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz

Julia Grosse

Curator & Publisher, Contemporary And (C&), Berlin

Prof. Dr. Felix Heidenreich

Political Scientist, University of Stuttgart, International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies (IZKT)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaminski

Philosopher, TU Darmstadt

Anh-Linh Ngo

Architect & Chief Editor of Arch+, Vice president of Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Cem Özdemir

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

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Eva-Maria Seng

Rector, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart

Ülkü Süngün

Artist, Stuttgart

Prof. Dr. Miriam Zadoff

Director, Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism

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

N. N.

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