Ulrike Pötzsch

Ulrike Pötzsch directed the program department of the Edith Stein Society in Breslau during the years 2006 to 2009. She further developed the Edith Stein Haus as the center for cultural dialogue and prepared for the transfer of the program department to a new Polish successor. She instituted international meetings, German-Polish networking initiatives, projects for intercultural and historical education as well as cultural events.

Ulrike Pötzsch studied Cultural Studies, French Studies and Theater Studies in Leipzig and Aix-en-Provence. During the study she engaged in the Sachsen/Leipzig regional group of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V. by organizing the event series "Cultural Policy Salon". Her graduate work "Networks of Significance. The EU-filmfunding-programmes and European Cultural Variety" appeared in 2008 (ISBN 3639022629). After her studies she worked for the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in Gdansk as a cultural manager.

Current

In Summer 2009 Ulrike Pötzsch returned to Germany and workes as a cultural manager in Asisi Visual Culture GmbH. She is member of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V.