On 20 June, the German ITI Centre held its General Assembly online and elected a new board. The new president, eledted for three years, is Yvonne Büdenhölzer, director of the Berlin Theatertreffen. She takes over from Joachim Lux, artistic director of the Thalia Theatre Hamburg, who did not stand for re-election after seven years in office.
The new board, elected for two years, also includes the two newly elected vice-presidents Holger Schultze (artistic director of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg) and Tobias Veit (director of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin), as well as Nora Amin (choreographer, author and theatre scholar, Berlin), Yvonne Griesel (surtitler, translator and interpreter, Berlin), Nora Hertlein (curator of the international programme of the Thalia Theater, Hamburg), Jan Linders (head of programme/events of the Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Schloss), Felicitas Loewe (artistic director of the tjg. theatre junge generation, Dresden), Ihsan Othmann (director and actor, Berlin), Maria Rößler (freelance dramaturg, focus on transnational cooperation, Berlin), Almut Wagner (deputy artistic director and chief dramaturg at the Residenztheater Munich).
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