Culture City of Bern faces upheaval
The City of Bern's Department of Culture is facing a personnel renewal. Over the next few years, several long-standing specialists and managers will be retiring.
In the next few years, all three people who have shaped the city's culture department in recent years, Veronica Schaller, her deputy Peter Schranz and project manager Martin Müller, will reach retirement age. The municipal council wants to ensure an orderly transition and guarantee continuity in the municipal culture department with a gradual succession plan. In addition, the reorganization of Kultur Stadt Bern, which has already begun, is to be completed thanks to staff renewal and moderate expansion.
The first change will take place at the end of January 2018 with the retirement of Peter Schranz. A vacancy will be advertised for his successor in the coming weeks. As a specialist in theater, dance and literature, the new appointment will be responsible for funding applications in these areas, managing the two relevant committees and supporting the relevant institutions.
A further vacancy will be advertised in spring 2018, when the new position to be created in accordance with the cultural strategy will assume responsibility for the area of visual arts and art in public spaces.
Veronica Schaller's successor will be advertised in summer 2018 and is expected to take up her position at the beginning of 2019. Among other things, Veronica Schaller will carry out the ongoing planning process for the service contracts for the 2020 to 2023 subsidy period until the end of 2018.
Project manager Martin Müller will reach retirement age in October 2020; his successor will be appointed by the new management.
