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Raphaela Bardutzky is a writer and dramaturg based in Munich. Her plays have been staged at venues including the Burgtheater Vienna, Schauspiel Graz, Theater Heidelberg, Landestheater Linz and Schauspiel Leipzig. Her play Fischer Fritz received, among other awards, the Audience Award for New Drama at the Münchner Kammerspiele and was selected as the winning play at the 2022 Autor at Deutsches Theater Berlin. In 2023, she received the Bavarian Arts Promotion Award in the Literature category for her theatre text Das Licht der Welt. Her play Altbau in zentraler Lage. Eine Schaueroper was nominated for the 2025 Mülheimer Dramatikpreis. Since the 2025/26 season, Bardutzky has been resident writer at Staatstheater Nürnberg. Together with two colleagues, she also curates LIX, a reading series held four times a year at HochX.

Anna Bründl studied theatre studies, Romance languages and literature, and history in Berlin and Munich. She has worked in production and hospitality for international festivals, including SPIELART and DANCE in Munich. From 2010 to 2018, she was an artistic associate at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, where she directed the streetculture and springhouse festivals. From 2019 to 2021, she worked as a dramaturg and project manager for the new theatre alliance vier.ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr, followed by a position at the NRW Kultursekretariat as dramaturg for the Impulse Theater Festival in 2023/24, where she was particularly responsible for the STADTPROJEKTE. She currently serves as managing director and programme curator of Depot Köln, a venue of Bühnen Köln for the independent performing arts scene and Schauspiel Köln.

Jürgen Enninger has spent many years working on how cities can create and sustainably secure spaces, structures and reliable conditions for artistic and creative work. Since August 2026, he has been responsible for the operation of Jutierhalle in Munich’s Kreativquartier as part of the city’s Department of Arts and Culture. Previously, he served as Head of Cultural Affairs, World Heritage and Sport in Augsburg and as Head of the Competence Team for Cultural and Creative Industries in Munich. His professional and academic career has taken him to Canada, the Netherlands and Hong Kong, among other places. This international perspective informs his approach to urban cultural policy and the question of what cities can learn from one another when developing and securing affordable spaces for production, rehearsals and artistic work. His work brings together cultural policy, urban development, public administration and the perspectives of the independent scene. He is particularly interested in models that do not merely provide space, but actually enable artistic work. His starting point in cultural policy is clear: Culture is infrastructure.

Sinem Gökser studied the history and culture of the Near and Middle East, Turkology, theatre studies and art history at LMU Munich. For more than ten years, she was responsible for theatre and literature at Pasinger Fabrik, where she developed a diverse programme and curated festivals including Good News from Iran, Türkiye Reloaded and Von Isartürken und Bosporusmünchnern. At the end of her tenure, she initiated the themed week Ist das Demokratie oder kann das weg?. In 2023, she coordinated the opening ceremonies of the first Makkabi WinterGames in Ruhpolding for MAKKABI Deutschland, in close cooperation with the Jewish Community of Munich and the Consulate General of Israel in Southern Germany. Since June 2024, she has been the coordinator of the network of Munich arts universities (HFF, HMTM, AdBK), in cooperation with the August Everding Theatre Academy. As part of this pilot project, she is developing systematic cooperation between the institutions, designing concepts and coordinating support structures for diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion. As a member of the Kompetenzteam Vielheit, she advocates for representation, communication and networking among cultural practitioners in Munich. She is also a spokesperson for München ist Kultur and a board member of the Freie Szene München.