Sigrid Niemer (Germany)
The founding member of the International Culture Centre ufaFabrik was born in the North of Germany and studied Arts and Education in Berlin. Since 1979 she worked for the organization ufaFabrik in different management positions, today she is a member in the Board of Directors of the “International Culture Centre” and Head of Communication.
Beside that she is teaching young professionals in the field of Communication and Mediation, in Berlin at the “Freie Universitaet” in 2006, or at the Akademie für Kultur und Bildung in 2007. Internationally she played an active role in developing the Network “Trans Europe Halles”, an European Network of independent Art and Culture Centres, gave lectures, workshops and presentations about Communication, Participation, Sustainable Development and Culture & Art for different organizations, like in St. Petersburg (1998) “21st Century Ark”, Bangkok (1999) “Public Building. Public Culture. Public City”; Marseille (2001) “New Arenas for the Art“; Dublin (2002) “The Civil Arts Inquiry”, and in Mai 2005 in Buenaventura / Italy “Il DNA dei centri culturali indipendenti”.
