Barbara Kisseler

Barbara Kisseler, May 2012

Barbara Kisseler (* 8. September 1949 in Asperden , Kleve , † 7. October 2016 ) was a German non-party politician . From March 2011 until her death she was the Senator for Culture in the Hamburg Senate .

Life

Barbara Kisseler grew up as the fourth oldest of ten children in Hückeswagen and attended the Catholic primary school in Bever from 1955 to 1959. In 1960 she moved to the St. Angela School of the Ursulines in Wipperfürth , where she graduated from high school on July 1, 1970.

From 1970 to 1978 she studied theater, film and television studies , German language and literature and pedagogy at the University of Cologne , and on December 22, 1977 she obtained the degree of Magistra Artium . Barbara Kisseler's professional career began in 1977 on Deutschlandfunk , WDR and the Carl Duisberg Society . A year later she moved to the city of Bonn and was employed in the cultural department, where she worked until 1981. In 1982 she took over the cultural office of the city of Hilden , and in 1986 she became head of the cultural office in Düsseldorf . In 1993 her path led to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, where she became head of the culture department under Helga Schuchardt . In July 2003 she was appointed State Secretary for Culture at the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture. From November 2006 to March 2011 she was head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery . From February 2006 she was an honorary professor in the cultural work course at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences .

During the 2009 federal election was Barbara Kisseler by the then SPD - Chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his July 30, 2009 expert team appointed. After the mayor elections , the designated First Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, declared at the end of February 2011 that Barbara Kisseler should become Hamburg's new Senator for Culture. On March 23, 2011, Kisseler was appointed senator and president of the cultural authority and, together with the other members of the Scholz I senate, was confirmed by the citizenship. Her office as Senator for Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was extended for a further legislative period after the Hamburg state elections on February 15, 2015. "Politically, she was instrumental in ensuring that the last remaining old buildings in Hamburg's Gängeviertel, occupied by artists, could become an internationally recognized quarter of alternative culture and ideas of life." Her special merits are considered to have made a decisive contribution to the rapid completion of the Elbphilharmonie .

Since May 29, 2015, Kisseler has also been President of the German Stage Association .

After a serious cancer illness, Barbara Kisseler died on October 7th, 2016. Since April 11th, 2016 she could no longer pursue her duties as a Senator for Culture due to health reasons.

literature

• Astrid Froese: Kisseler, Barbara . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 7 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , p. 182-185 .

Web links

Commons : Barbara Kisseler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Barbara Kisseler's CV on the website of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg's Senator for Culture Prof. Barbara Kisseler has died. In: hamburg.de. Retrieved October 10, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Welt Online: SPD votes for the new Senate , March 21, 2011 , accessed on March 23, 2011
3. ^ Zeit Online: Barbara Kisseler becomes Hamburg Senator for Culture , February 27, 2011 , accessed on March 23, 2011
4. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt online: Portrait of Barbara Kisseler , accessed on May 29, 2015
5. ↑ Till Briegleb : Barbara Kisseler has died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 11, 2016, p. 12.
6. ↑ [1] Welt.de: "She had stature and style"
7. ↑ Hamburg's Senator for Culture Barbara Kisseler has died. In: welt.de. Retrieved October 10, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Stefan Grund: Senator Barbara Kisseler †: She was the ideal cultural politician. In: welt.de. October 10, 2016, accessed October 10, 2016.