About us
STAFF
BID OFFICE
Hauptmarkt 18
90403 Nürnberg
Phone: 0911 / 231 – 23 90
Fax: 0911 / 231 4 – 7 57
OLIVIA BARTH-JURCA
Public Relations - Media Relations, Online & Social Media
NICO DEGENKOLB
European Dimension, Metropolitan Region
TANJA EHRLEIN
Outreach, Audience Development
ANDREAS KIST
Public Relations
BIRGIT KORDER
Administration
KERSTIN POHL
Administration
PEER STARK
Project Management
MARIA RINK
Administration
SANDRA SONG
Project Management: Cultural Centres, Creative Industries, Literature
HANNAH STRAUB
Project Management, Metropolitan Region
PROF. DR. HANS-JOACHIM WAGNER
Head of Bid Office
Advisory Board
In order to include critical viewpoints, important stimuli and international expertise from outside in Nürnberg’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2025, the City of Nürnberg created an advisory committee. Ten renowned experts are supporting the bid with their knowledge and experience.
The advisory committee serves as a discussion forum and oversees Nürnberg’s bid process. The members act as consultants and contribute their specific expertise, in particular with regard to the artistic lead projects.
HOLGER BERGMANN
Curator and managing director of the Fonds Darstellende Künste in Berlin
THOMAS BÖHM
Author, literature mediator and moderator as well as jury member of the committee of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds 2019/2020
TUNÇAY KULAOĞLU
Author, filmmaker, dramaturg and curator as well as co-founder of the Film Festival Turkey - Germany in Nuremberg
JAGODA MARINIĆ
Writer and freelance columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz and Deutsche Welle
CHRISTINE M. MERKEL
Head of the Department of Culture, Communication and Memory of the World at the German Commission for UNESCO in Bonn
SAMIR ODEH-TAMIMI
Composer in the field of international music projects and compositions between Western European avant-garde and Arab musical practice
PROF. DR. JOCHEN SANDER
Professor of Art History, Deputy Director of the Städel Museum and holder of the Städel Co-Professorship for Art History at the Goethe University Frankfurt
RENATE SCHMIDT
Former Bundesministerin and Honorary Citizen of the City of Nuremberg
PROF. DR. DR. THOMAS STERNBERG
Theologian, Germanist and art historian, President of the Central Committee of German Catholics
DR. OSCAR SCHNEIDER
Former Bundesminister and Honorary Citizen of the City of Nuremberg