Madeline Ritter is a fully qualified lawyer with a professional focus on copyright law. She founded tanz performance köln, an international production and performance platform for contemporary dance in 1989 and was its artistic director and managing director until 2004. She has initiated many European networks, been the director of inter-disciplinary festivals and produced international co-productions in the field of dance, media and performance art. From 1993 to 1998, she was the founding and artistic director of Pictures of (e)Motion, an international festival for dance, film and new media at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn. She was curator of the dance programme at Theater Heilbronn from 2003 to 2008. She was appointed project director of Tanzplan Deutschland by the German Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Federal Cultural Foundation) in 2004. Her many years of experience of working with artists, institutions and sponsors formed the basis of a partnership-based promotional strategy that was rolled out, under her guidance, in nine cities and with the support of many project partners. Tanzplan Deutschland mobilised 21 million euros for dance and became a model project internationally. When the Tanzplan Deutschland project came to an end in 2011, she founded the non-for-profit company DIEHL+RITTER with Ingo Diehl in order to manage, among other initiatives, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes new dance funds: TANZFONDS ERBE (Dance Heritage Fund) and TANZFONDS PARTNER (Dance Partners Fund). She teaches culture management at various European universities and is a certified coach and facilitator of processes of change. Madeline Ritter is involved as a member of various committees, among others the Supervisory Board of Kulturfabrik Kampnagel in Hamburg, the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds (Cultural Fund) Frankfurt RheinMain and the Advisory Board of Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln. From 2014 to 2019 she was Deputy Chairperson of the Pina Bausch Foundation. Since 2020, she has been Chair of the Advisory Board of the Pina Bausch Foundation.

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Riccarda Herre completed her dance training at the ballet school of the Hamburg State Opera. She then worked as a solo dancer for various companies in Germany and abroad, for example CIE Red Notes in Paris, the Choreographic Theatre at the Volksbühne Berlin and the Tanztheater of the German National Theatre in Weimar. She graduated as a culture and media manager at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre in 2004. She has worked as an assistant and production director for various dance companies, theatres and institutions since 2002. She was, for example, project director of the Tanz im August and Context festivals at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin. She took charge of the 1st Dance Education Biennale for Tanzplan Deutschland. She has been project co-ordinator of the DANCE HERITAGE FUND and the DANCE PARTNERS FUND since 2011. Since 2017 she is managing in collaboration with Isabel Niederhagen the promotion fund Tanzpakt Stadt-Land-Bund. 

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After studying theatre science, comparative literature and journalism, Isabel Niederhagen was a researcher at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin before becoming press officer and programme dramaturgist at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin in 1999. In 2003, she co-founded the k3 berlin – Office for Culture and CommunIation agency, which among other things managed press and public relations for TANZ IM AUGUST – International Dance Festival Berlin and the DANCE CONGRESS GERMANY. She joined DIEHL+RITTER in 2012. Since 2017 she manages the promotion fund Tanzpakt Stadt-Land-Bund in collaboration with Riccarda Herre. 

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Laura Böttinger studied classical dance at the private Konservatorium Wien University from 2009 to 2013 and has worked as a dancer with various choreographers including Kadir “Amigo” Memis, Cristiana Casadio and Esther Balfe. In addition to her own artistic practice, she has been actively involved in the Ich bin O.K. cultural and educational association for people with and without disabilities, taught dance to children and young people, been a production assistant on the organisational team for Tanznacht Berlin 2014, and worked in partnership with Jochen Roller, Yuki Kihara and Karin Wickenhäuser. She has been working at DIEHL+RITTER since 2016. In 2018 she took over the production management of DANCE ON. She is artistic director of the comunity program DANCE ON PARTIZIPATION. 

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Christof Müller studied geography and political sciences. He was subsequently employed as a project manager at the Institut für Europäische Politik and the Centre international de formation européenne, where he was responsible for projects under the Jean-Monnet Programme of the European Commission, DG Education and Culture. From 2009 to 2013 he worked as an independent project and event manager for, e.g., Internet & Society Collaboratory, Stiftung Menschen für Menschen, and Discover Football. From 2013 to 2015 he oversaw the Dance Partners Fund and Dance Heritage Fund, both initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Diehl+Ritter, at sauerbrey | raabe. büro für kulturelle angelegenheiten. From 2015 to 2019 he has been responsible for RomArchive’s financial administration as well as contractual arangements and legal matters related to funding. He has been financial manager for DIEHL+RITTER since July 2019.

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Bastienne Kästner graduated in Applied Cultural Studies from the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, focusing on music and cultural promotion and organisation among other topics. After various activities in cultural and international projects such as the Kampnagel Dance and Theatre Festival and in Community Dance, she worked for several years as a project manager of international courses at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). In 2014, she took executive responsibility for organisation of a new African-German Master’s degree (a development and education policy project with the German Society for International Partnership (GIZ)) at the HWR. In addition to course co-ordination, she was responsible for administering the project budget and supporting the academic director in co-operation negotiations for the financing and further development of the project. She has been a financial manager at DIEHL+RITTER gUG since June 2017.

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Johanna Lühr studied German and Romance studies with a double degree at the universities of Bonn and Florence. From 2004 to 2005 she attended the School of Journalism in Berlin (BJS) and subsequently worked as a freelance journalist for various magazines, newspapers and radio. From 2009 to 2019 she was responsible for press communications at the Schaubühne Berlin. She is co-editor and editor-in-chief of the independent travel magazine Il Paradiso. Since January 2020 she is responsible for communications at DIEHL+RITTER..

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