Senta Höfer
Developed and directed the German Cultural Center Timişoara (cultural program, language department for German as a foreign language, German language library).
Projects by Senta Höfer at the German Cultural Center Timişoara (selection)
"Homage Aglaja Veteranyi/Literature, Film, Art Exhibition, Theater", an homage to the Romanian born Swiss author Aglaja Veteranyi
"CaféCultTour/Cabaret", German-French week of coffee house culture
"20+Timisoara=Art/Workshops and art exhibition", exchange of art students from Germany, France, Romania and Serbia
Background
Senta Höfer studied the German language and literature, journalism and art history in London, Bamberg, Antwerp and New York. From 1990 to 1996 she did freelance work at the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Rumänien, the BBC World Service and the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting). From 1998 to 2001 she worked as a consultant and a protection officer at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Croatia and as an information officer at the United Nation’s Information Center (UNIC) in Bonn.
Current
Since 2005 Program Manager in the area of training for foreign diplomats at the German Federal Foreign Office. In addition, from 2005 to 2008 she coordinated the cultural program of the German Library Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe "People and Books". She is a founding partner of the inter:est Kultur- und Bildungsprojekte GmbH, Berlin.