MADELINE RITTER
MANAGING DIRECTOR DIEHL+RITTER, PROJECT DIRECTOR TANZFONDS, ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DANCE ON, VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE PINA BAUSCH FOUNDATION
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). In 2015 she launched DANCE ON, a Europe-wide initiative for dancers over 40. She was also an expert of the initiative group of the support programme TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, which DIEHL+RITTER has been supporting together with the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland since 2017. 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 is Chair of the Advisory Board. From 2014 to 2019 she was Deputy Chairperson of the Pina Bausch Foundation, since 2020, she is Chair of the Advisory Board.
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RICCARDA HERRE
Project Management promotion fund TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund
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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Isabel Niederhagen
Project Management promotion fund TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund
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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ISA KÖHLER
Production management Dance On
Isa Köhler studied dance at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and completed a placement at the Martha Graham School in New York, followed by a master's degree in theatre studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum. She was project manager at PACT Zollverein Essen from 2009 to 2012, having already worked at the RuhrTriennale, Favoriten Festival and the International Dance Festival NRW Pina Bausch. In 2011/12 she taught dance studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum and began blogging for the online arts magazine ignant.de, which she continued to do for more than two years. From 2013 to 2016 she worked as a production manager for the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and the Pina Bausch Foundation, while also managing international PR for the Bochum-based record label Denovali Records. Together with the photographer Dirk Rose, she volunteered as manager of Walzwerk Null, a project space for photography and video art in Düsseldorf. In May 2016, Isa Köhler took over as festival producer of Tanz im August at HAU Hebbel am Ufer In Berlin. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the international performing arts network IETM and on the jury of the Spitzenförderung Tanz funding programme of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia. In 2021, she took over as production manager of the Dance On Ensemble at DIEHL+RITTER.
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LAURA BÖTTINGER
Production Management DANCE ON and Artistic Direction comunity Program (On parental leave)
Laura Böttinger studied classical dance in Vienna, where she was also trained for the "Ich bin O.K.". - cultural and educational association of people with and without disabilities. In 2017 she gave a seminar on cultural promotion at the MUK Music and Art Private University of Vienna as a guest lecturer. In addition to several production assistances, among others at the Tanznacht Berlin and in collaboration with Jochen Roller (DE) and Yuki Kihara (NZ), she has worked as a dancer in Rwanda and Finland. She has been working for DIEHL+RITTER since 2016 and is production manager of the Dance On Ensemble as well as artistic director of the Dance On Participation education programme.
christof müller
Head of Financial Administration
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
Financial Administration promotion fund Tanzpakt
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
Head of communications
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..
ISABEL AGUIRRE SIEMER
Financial Administration
Isabel Aguirre Siemer studied Spanish, English and Italian Philology in Berlin, Salamanca and Cagliari. As a freelance cultural manager, she curated and organised literature projects at the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin from 2004. Between 2010-2012 she worked at the House of World Cultures and was responsible for the project coordination of the international project "Translating HipHop". She is co-editor of the anthology "No Serenity here. An Anthology of African Poetry in Amharic, English, French, Arabic and Portuguese" (Beijing 2010), which was published in Chinese translation for the 2010 Shanghai Biennale and Expo. Since 2014 she has worked for the agency relations* Klingen and Darian, among others. In 2013 she founded the association No Boundaries e.V. and has since been responsible for the project "Behind Bars" at the Berlin Juvenile Detention Centre in cooperation with the Berlin Juvenile Detention Centre. Since 2018 Isabel has been working as a freelance financial administrator and for the Dance Congress 2019. Since July 2020 she has been working for Diehl+Ritter in the financial administration team.
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CLAUDIA ENGELS
Project Coordination Promotion Fund TANZPAKT RECONNECT
Claudia Engels studied art education in Maastricht, ethnology in Berlin and visual anthropology, with a focus on ethnographic documentary film, in Manchester. In recent years she has worked as a project manager in Berlin. At the büro für kulturelle angelegenheiten she organised various events at the interface of art, education, politics and science from 2013 to 2015 for the Federal Cultural Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal Agency for Civic Education, among others. From 2015 to 2019 she was project coordinator of the pioneering project RomArchive - Digital Archive of the Sinti and Roma. She was responsible for translations, editing and proofreading in close cooperation with the curators of the various archive sections. Since August 2020 she has been working for DIEHL+RITTER in the project management of the special programme TANZPAKT RECONNECT.
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ty boomershine
Artistic Director Dance On Ensemble
Ty Boomershine studied dance in Ohio and Missouri. In addition to dancing with various artists and companies, including Lucinda Childs, Emio Greco | PC, LeineRoebana, Dan Wagoner, Gus Solomons Jr., Bill T. Jones, Ton Simons and the Merce Cunningham Repertory Ensemble, he has also performed in pieces by Dancenoise and Giulia Mureddu. He danced in Robert Wilsons’ “Einstein on the Beach” and has been Lucinda Child’s Artistic Assistant, as well as rehearsal director for the ICKamsterdam. Ty Boomershine joined the Dance On Ensemble in 2015 and became its Artistic Director in 2019.