Anke Steinert-Neuwirth - Consultant for Culture, Education

The variety of tasks, the thematic breadth and at the same time the close interlinking of art, culture, education and leisure make every working day start and end differently and excitingly. It simply gives me great pleasure to deal with these areas, which are so important for our urban society, on a daily basis, to campaign for an attractive cultural offering and a needs-based educational offering and to develop it further in a future-oriented way.

It is very important to me that we are a liveable and attractive cultural and educational city "for everyone" and that we enable people in our city to participate socially and culturally. This not only includes well-equipped schools, cultural and educational facilities such as the new district house in Büchenbach, which is currently being planned, with its future integrated district library, youth art school and adult education center. Cultural education" offers are of central importance. Understanding the "public space as an art and cultural space" and using it intensively is also important to me. Art and culture must "get out into the urban space, out into the marketplace".

The simultaneity of high culture, socioculture and the great voluntary commitment of our cultural associations characterizes our city. As a festival city, we shine far beyond the borders of our region, especially with the International Puppet Theater Festival. Numerous low-threshold and, in some cases, free offers such as the castle garden concerts, the children's cultural offers and the work of the local cultural centers make it easy for people of all ages to participate in culture. In our museums, we convey the city's history and showcase regional and international artistic positions. With the E-Werk cultural center, we have an important non-urban cultural institution with a magnetic function in northern Bavaria. The theater is a discursive venue for current socio-political issues. And with the "ZAM Center for Exchange and Making", we have recently opened a new location in our old town where art, culture, digital science and technology meet creatively in dialog with urban society.

If you want to enjoy art and nature undisturbed, you should definitely visit the Heinrich Kirchner sculpture garden on the Burgberg with its 17 "bronze giants". The baroque palace gardens in the middle of the city center with the orangery and the adjacent botanical garden are another must-see. And behind the rather inconspicuous façade of the Margrave Theater is the oldest baroque theater in southern Germany.

I often enjoy going to the Botanical Garden during my lunch break. It's simply a wonderful oasis in the middle of the city center and only a two-minute bike ride from my office.

Classical music - preferably Johann Sebastian Bach and Italian baroque music. Otherwise, I listen to a wide variety of music depending on the mood of the day and what the good stations have to offer, especially late at night on the way home from an event.

If you disregard the various items that I can't really do without in these digital times and in my role, then it's my flute, my trekking shoes and my secateurs.

A personal consultation is very important to me. Therefore, please feel free to make an appointment directly by phone or e-mail:

kulturreferat@stadt.erlangen.de

+49 (0) 9131 86 1020.