Christina Haak

Christina Haak (* 1966 in Stadthagen ) is a German art historian and has been Deputy General Director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2011 .

Christina Haak in the foyer of the Kulturforum , 2020

Life

Christina Haak studied art history in Braunschweig and Münster and received her doctorate in 1999 with a thesis on the baroque portrait in northern Germany. After her traineeship and several exhibitions at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt am Main , she took over the management of the project management, museum development planning and public relations department at the Hessen Kassel Museum Landscape in 2003 . In 2009 she moved to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and took over the management of the construction department. Since 2011 she has been Deputy General Director at Michael Eissenhauer's side . In particular, she is responsible for the digital transformation of the facility, for example leading the sub-project “Visitor Journeys Rethought - Digital Extension of Museum Visits” within the framework of the joint project “museum4punkt0”. Since 2017 she has also been one of two CDOs of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation .

Christina Haak has been Vice President of the German Museum Association since May 2018 .

Publications (selection)

• Veronika Tocha, Christina Haak, Miguel Helfrich (eds.): Close to life. 200 years of plaster molding . Prestel, Munich / London / New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5939-7 .

• Christina Haak: Plug In. The museum and "his city" . In: Scenography in exhibitions and museums: Museum and city, city and museum: exhibitions as social space . tape VIII . avedition, Stuttgart 2018, p. 40-48 .

• Christina Haak, Miguel Helfrich (Ed.): Casting - an analogue path into the age of digitization? A symposium on plaster molding of the State Museums in Berlin . arthistoricum.net, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-946653-20-2 , doi : 10.11588 / arthistoricum.95.114 .

• Christina Haak: Forward into the past. The "Gipsformerei Company" . In: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Hrsg.): Yearbook Preussischer Kulturbesitz . tape 51 . Grote, 2015, ISSN  0342-0124 , p. 318-326 .

• Christina Haak: The baroque portrait in Northern Germany. Appearance and typology in the field of tension between international currents . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-631-37389-9 (dissertation).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christina Haak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Christina Haak on the blog of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Interview with Christina Haak about Google Arts & Culture
• Interview with Christina Haak about the educational profile of museums at SWR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release: New Deputy Director General of the National Museums in Berlin elected - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, June 20, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Christina Haak. NEMO - Network of European Museum Organizations, accessed on April 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Visitor journeys rethought - digital extension of the museum visit. In: museum4punkt0. Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media , accessed on April 20, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ Christina Haak. In: Innoveit. EIT, August 30, 2019, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Board elections 2018. Deutscher Museumsbund e. V., accessed on April 20, 2020 (German).