School board
The University Council acts as a liaison between the university, state, and community and supports the university by overseeing executive management, optimizing decision-making processes, and increasing operating efficiency.
The focus of the University Council lies in advising the university’s administration and central committees. This includes, but is not limited to, budgetary counsel, developmental and facility decisions, the creation, modification and dissolution of university organizational structures, the establishment and termination of study programs, and the formation of multidisciplinary bodies.
The activities of the University Council take place in close correspondence and correlation with university administration as well as our Academic Senate.
The University Council is comprised of:
• The Berlin Senate Member responsible for universities
• The head of the university
• Four external representatives from engaged on topics of culture, economy, and scientific pursuits and
• A faculty member of the university:
Bernd J. Wieczorek is a senior advisor at Egon Zehnder International GmbH, Berlin, and served as Chairman of the Managing Board and Chairman for a number of years. With nearly 70 locations worldwide, Egon Zehnder has a global presence, and is a leader in the area of leadership consulting.
Earlier, Wieczorek - who is a qualified mathematician - served as a senior manager at Arthur Anderson & Co in Düsseldorf and Chicago.
He is socially engaged, and holds the following honorary posts:
- Chairman of the Freunde der Akademie der Künste
- Deputy Advisory Board Chairman of the RWE Stiftung
- Cofounder and board member of the Berlin Center of Corporate Governance (BCCG)
- Presidium member and head of the Committee on Culture of the Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller (VBKI)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Since 2014, Bernd J. Wieczorek has been Chairman of the University Council of the Hanns Eisler School of Music.
- grew up in London in a family of musicians, and studied languages (French and German) at the Emmanuel College at Cambridge University
- received instruction in piano and violin beginning at the age of five, was awarded a number of national prizes with her string quartet, and has served as a concertmaster with various amateur orchestras in London, Cambridge und Salzburg
- 1996/97, funds manager of the Kölner Philharmonie
- 1997 and 2000, artistic director at Schloss Elmau between
- managing director for the Camerata Salzburg and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, where she worked side-by-side with René Jacobs for nearly 10 years in association with leading baroque orchestras, also collaborating with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
- 2009 cultural consulting firm Wilson Arts Projects advised festivals and cultural institutions
- 2014-18, vice rector for external relations and interim president, at the Mozarteum Salzburg
- 2015 chairperson of the supervisory board at the Salzburg Easter Festival
- 2018, senior advisor at Arts Executive Search, a headhunting enterprise specializing in the cultural sector
- president of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin since October 1, 2019
- 1963: born in Oldenburg/Holstein
- 1983: School leaving exam in Lübeck
- 1984–1991: Studies in business administration at the Universität Hamburg and the Freie Universität Berlin; Diplom in business
- 1986–1987: Internship in Paris, France
- 1991–1994: Trainee in human resource management at Philip Morris GmbH
- 1994–1997: Head of the Personnel Department at the Evangelischen Diakonieverein (Evangelical social welfare association) Berlin e. V.
- Since 2002: Managing Director at the public agency Studierendenwerk Berlin
- Voluntary service
- Since 2012: deputy board member of the Kommunaler Arbeitgeberverband Berlin (municipal employers association of Berlin; KAV)
- Since 2014: member of the representative assembly of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German pension insurance) Berlin-Brandenburg
- Since 2014: member of the University Council of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
Head of Cultural Affairs and Corporate History for Bertelsmann in Berlin
Senator for Science, Health, Medical Care and Gender Equality
- born on October 26, 1965 in Trier
- Graduate Geoecologist
- 1994 – 1998 Doctoral studies in the field of hydrology/environmental economics at the University of Bayreuth (without degree)
- 1989 – 1990 Studies in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia Norwich, UK
- 1986 – 1994 Study of geoecology at the University of Bayreuth (degree with diploma)
- 1985 – 1986 Study of human medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
- 1985 Abitur at the Angela Merici High School in Trier
- 2019 – 2021 Head of Department for Youth, Health, Education and Equal Opportunities in Kassel (responsible for the health department in the Kassel region, among other things)
- 2013 – 2018 Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament
- 2008 – 2013 Parliamentary Secretary of the Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament
- 2003 – 2018 Member of the executive committee of the Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament
- 2002 – 2009 City Councilor in Bayreuth (Focus: University, Environment, Youth, Schools, Finances and Budget, Life in the City Center, Queer)
- 1998 – 2018 Member of the Bavarian State Parliament (2001-2013: Higher Education Policy Spokesperson)
- Born 1966 in Guben, Germany
- Violin studies with Prof. Werner Scholz at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
- Diverse concert repertoire including “Violinkonzert” by Jörg Widmann, “Offertorium” by Sofia Gubaidulina and “Fremdes Licht” by Wolfgang Rihm
- Soloist with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and various German radio orchestras as well as numerous international orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and leading orchestras in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Asia
- CD releases with CAvi-music, including several recordings with Silke Avenhaus (Violin Sonatas by Brahms and Mendelssohn as well as works by Dvořák, Suk, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Ravel und Fauré) and the Camerata Bern (Beethoven’s “String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95” and “Kreutzer Sonata” in arrangements for string orchestra), as well as with Claves Records (Mendelssohn’s “Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra” with Alexander Lonquich and Camerata Bern)
- Prizes at International Fritz Kreisler Competition Graz 1987, Bach Competition Leipzig 1988 and Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover 1991
- Since 2002, member of the Arcanto Quartet with concerts at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and Théâtre du Châtelet amongst others, recording with Harmonia Mundi
- Artistic Director at Camerata Bern since 2009/10 season
- Professorships at Berlin University of the Arts
- Since 2004, Professor at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
- 1942: Born in Waging am See
- Initial musical training as a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen
- Studies in conducting with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna, and Herbert von Karajan
- Musical Director in Solingen and Krefeld-Mönchengladbach, Principal Conductor of the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna, Directeur musicale of the Grand Opéra de Paris, Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London
- 1990-1992: Musical Director of the Oper Leipzig
- 1995-2014: First Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
- 1997-2006: Musical Director der Württembergischer Staatsoper Stuttgart
- 2006-2011: Principal Conductor of the Konzerthausorchester
- Guest appearances at leading houses, among them the State Operas in Vienna and Hamburg, the Bayrische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival
- Guest Conductor at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Oper Frankfurt, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Korean National Opera, the Staatsoper Hamburg
- Appearances as a guest conductor with renowned orchestras in Germany and abroad, among others the Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Bamberger Symphoniker, all of the major German radio symphony orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre National de France, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, as well as the Berlin and Vienna Festwochen, the London Proms, the Munich Opera Festival, and the Salzburg Festival
- Special commitment to contemporary music
- Wide-ranging discography, for example recordings of “degenerate music,” including works by Ernst Krenek, Viktor Ullmann, Hanns Eisler, Berthold Goldschmidt, Walter Braunfels, Hans Krása, “Danton’s Death” by Gottfried von Einem, “Saint Francois” by Olivier Messiaen, and works by Paul Hindemith for choir and orchestra, as well as CDs featuring works by Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, and Webern
- Numerous awards for recordings, among them major prizes such as the “Grand Prix du Disque,” the “Cannes Classical Award” and the “Deutscher Schallplattenpreis,” as well as a “Grammy” nomination
- "Conductor of the Year” (1997, 1999, 2013), Hessischer Kulturpreis (2006), Critic’s Prize in 2009 had in the field of music from the Association of German Critics
- Sponsor of the Offensive Kulturelle Bildung in Berlin, Honorary Chairman of the jury of the Hochschulwettbewerbs Dirigieren (university contest in conducting) 2008, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Conducting Forum of the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council)
- Member of the University Council of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin