The Advisory Board
In appointing the Advisory Board a broad spectrum of the European cultural landscape should be represented and therefore guarantee the competent, responsible work of the Foundation. Currently six leading personalities from European cultural life have been appointed to the Advisory Board:

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Prof. Dr. Christina Weiss (Chairwoman), Former State Minister at the Federal Chancellery for Media and Culture, Publicist, Honorary Professor for Comparative Studiest
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Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, headmaster of the Städel School, Frankfurt; (from November 2010 on: Director of the Moderna Museet Stockholm)

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Veronica Kaup-Hasler, member of the Universitiy Council of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

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Former Members

Prof. Dr. Robert Picht (Chairman), Vice-Rector College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin (†September 24, 2008)
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Karsten Witt: Music Manager, former Artistic Director Royal Festival Hall, London
Moritz de Hadeln (2001-2003): former Director of the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Jean-Baptiste Joly: Director of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Prof. William E. Paterson (2001-2003): Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham
Tom Stromberg: Former Director of the Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Deputy Chairman), Curator, Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery, London