Composition of the Board of Trustees

Members of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Cultural Foundation are

under § 7 section 1 no. 1 of the statutes:

a. Minister of State for Culture and the Media: Bernd Neumann, Minister of State, Chair of the Board of Trustees

b. Representative of the Foreign Office: Cornelia Pieper, Minister of State

c. Representative of the Federal Ministry of Finance: Steffen Kampeter, State Secretary


under § 7 section 1 no. 2 of the statutes: three representatives of the Bundestag

a. Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the German Bundestag

b. Wolfgang Thierse, Vice President of the German Bundestag

c. Hans-Joachim Otto, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology


under § 7 section 1 no. 3 of the statutes: two representatives of the federal states (Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs)

a. Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Minister, Ministry of Sciene and Culture of Lower-Saxony

b.  Walter Schumacher, State Secretary, Ministry of Science, Education, Research and Culture of Rheinland-Pfalz


under § 7 section 1 no. 4 of the statutes: two local government representatives

a. Klaus Hebborn, Councillor for Education, Culture and Sports, German Association of Cities

b. Uwe Lübking, Councillor, German Association of Cities


under § 7 section 1 no. 5 of the statutes: the chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the "Kulturstiftung der Länder" (Cultural Foundation of the Federal States)

a. Peter Harry Carstensen, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein


under § 7 section 1 no. 6 of the statutes: three leading cultural and artistic figures

a. Senta Berger, actress and president of the German Film Academy, Berlin (from 2003-2010)

b. Durs Grünbein, poet, Berlin

c. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolf Lepenies, sociologist, Berlin