Burkhardt becomes head of Kultur Stadt Bern
The municipal council has appointed Franziska Burkhardt as the new Head of Culture for the City of Bern. She replaces Veronica Schaller, who is retiring at the end of January 2019 after ten years as head of the department.
Franziska Burkhardt is currently the managing director of the Progr cultural center in Bern and will hand over this position at the end of October. She previously worked at the Federal Office of Culture. In addition to her work at the Progr, she led the process of developing the city's new cultural strategy on behalf of Bern's municipal council, the city's executive body. Her task will be to represent Bern as a city of culture in all its facets, both internally and externally, with a high-profile cultural policy, forward-looking cultural promotion and open dialog.
The handover between the previous head of department Veronica Schaller and Franziska Burkhardt as of February 1, 2019 is geared towards the current renewal of the four-year contracts between the city and its cultural institutions: By the end of January 2019, Veronica Schaller will have completed the key cultural policy dossier "Priorities and use of funds 2020 to 2023" on the administrative side.
