I love challenges and discovering new things! Becoming Chairwoman of the Wiesbaden City Museum Association? - I would never have thought of it. When I was approached to take on this position, I didn't have to think twice and accepted enthusiastically.

About myself:
I come from northern Germany and ended up in Wiesbaden by a stroke of (good) luck. The historic city center, the architecture, e.g. on the 1st ring road, and the greenery along the streets immediately cast a spell over me. And as one of my hobbies is photography, Wiesbaden provided me with plenty of motifs. I have now been documenting the urban development changes with aerial photographs for many years. Rummaging through Wiesbaden's past is also one of my favorite pastimes. These two preferences then form the basis for lectures, newspaper articles, exhibitions and published books.

My visions:
I would like to support the city museum together with my fellow board members and the members of the Friends' Association. "A spacious building with large, high-ceilinged rooms for informative, exciting exhibitions and magnificent special exhibitions, areas for events or discussion groups and opportunities to meet and talk." For me, this is what the city museum of a state capital looks like!

I am looking forward to the challenges ahead.

Only those who know their destination will find the way. (Lao Tzu).

I was pleasantly surprised by the offer to join the Sadtmuseum Friends Association. 

I’m delighted to now be a member of the board. I’d like to use the resources at my disposal to support and represent the Friends of the Sadtmuseum.

A little about myself:

I was born in Wiesbaden on September 23, 1954. I studied in Wiesbaden at the former Werkkunstschule/FH Wiesbaden, graduating with a degree in communication design. I have been a co-owner of the advertising agency Schwarz&Bell since 1992 and the owner of the Bell agency since 2005. I develop and implement communication and design solutions across a wide range of fields. My areas of expertise include corporate design, corporate communications, urban furniture, architectural and interior design, and product design.  

My vision: 

The vision I have in mind is a state capital, Wiesbaden, that rediscovers its vitality and self-confidence. This includes preserving Wiesbaden’s values, as well as protecting and maintaining its treasures and architecture. Through my many years of initiative-based work on special projects in Wiesbaden, I would like to help make this vision a reality.

About me personally:

I was born on the other side of the Berlin Wall in 1985. My studies and career took me from a small village in Thuringia via Xanten, Leipzig, Cardiff and Cologne to Wiesbaden, where I found my adopted home in 2017.
I quickly fell in love with the beautiful city, the surrounding area, the history and culture and, of course, the regional wine. I've always felt at home on the Rhine anyway.
I am an archaeologist, a prehistorian to be precise, and worked on excavations for many years, mainly in Hesse. I worked as a research assistant at the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt for several years and was also in charge of press and public relations at the Wiesbaden City Museum for a few months. I am very pleased to be able to join the board of the Friends' Association.

About my visions:

Since I've lived in Wiesbaden, I've been surprised that the city's special features - lots of green nature (the Rhine, the Taunus), the numerous hot springs (probably popular since the Stone Age) and streams, the varied history (Roman heritage, development from sleepy little town to spa town and Hessian state capital) and the diversity and multiculturalism - are so little appreciated. A modern, large (city) museum could build bridges here.
As places of education, museums strengthen democracy, because education turns people into responsible citizens. That is why I see a new (city) museum not only as a place to exhibit regional cultural and urban history, but above all as a place for participation, encounters and discourse, and I would like to see a museum with an attitude.

About myself:
I grew up in the Taunus and came into contact with the history of the region at an early age. I realized my dream of studying archaeology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. I was particularly influenced by my many years as a student at the Saalburg Roman fort, where I gained valuable insights into archaeological museum work from which I still benefit today. My path led me from my doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg to a dissertation position at the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt via a three-year research assistant position at the Goethe University Frankfurt to the Stadtmuseum Wiesbaden. Since mid-2020, I have been the curator responsible for the archaeology section of the Nassau Antiquities Collection.

About my visions:
"Had you still seen the Nassau Antiquities Collection in the State Museum?" I often heard this question during my studies in Mainz and Freiburg. The SNA always hovered over my studies like a phantom. And no, I had never seen the permanent exhibition, which was dismantled in the Landesmuseum around 2002/2003. Today, as curator of the SNA, I can directly understand what the closure of the collection meant - for experts as well as for the public. The consequences can still be felt today, particularly in archaeological research, in the form of "blind spots" in some regions. This is because the SNA represents nothing less than the historical memory of the western Rhine-Main region. Making the SNA fully accessible to research and the public again is a matter close to my heart.

About myself:

I was born and grew up in Göttingen and studied history and historical auxiliary sciences at the university there. After completing my doctorate, I trained for the higher archive service in Marburg and Koblenz. My first professional stations took me to the state main archive in Magdeburg and to the municipal archive in Celle. In 2001, I came to Wiesbaden as head of the local city archive. In the 18 years I worked there, I got to know the city from many different angles. Since retiring, I have been involved in heritage conservation on a voluntary basis. Although I am a medieval historian by training, I find all eras of Wiesbaden's history exciting and try to arouse interest in them in lectures and publications.

My visions:

Wiesbaden's city history has very different facets that are worth presenting in their entirety to a wide audience. A visit to a modern city museum in a larger Bavarian city last year showed me how this can be done - the famous "aha experience" for me. Aha, so that's how it can work! New museum techniques, including a "living book", were an extremely interesting experience and leave visitors amazed. This is how I envision our future city museum. I would like it to be a place of encounter, of prospective collecting, also of trying things out, a place where historical facts are conveyed in an entertaining way and, in a good sense, of "instruction", a place that children and young people also like to visit.