Olaf Zimmermann

Olaf Zimmermann (2015)

Olaf Zimmermann (born February 21, 1961 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German publicist , former art dealer and since March 1997 the managing director of the German Cultural Council .

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After attending a vocational school and subsequent technical college, Zimmermann completed an internship as an art dealer. He was managing director of several galleries in a row. In 1987 he set up his own gallery for contemporary art. The gallery had locations in Cologne and Mönchengladbach .

From 1991 a journalist and consulting office was added in Mönchengladbach. As managing director of the German Cultural Council e. V. Zimmermann has been working since March 1997. In this position, he and Theo Geißler are the publisher of the magazine of the German Cultural Council Politics & Culture , which is sold through subscriptions and in free kiosk sales.

The publicist is a voluntary board member of the Social Democratic Cultural Forum with a focus on art, culture and social development. Zimmermann was the honorary moderator of the Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Convention , which opened on October 19, 2011 and closed on February 28, 2013 with recommendations. In 2013 Zimmermann was appointed to the advisory board of the Federal Cultural Foundation . Zimmermann was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Erich Pommer Institute . In 2015 Zimmermann was appointed as a new member of the Synod, the church parliament of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO). Zimmermann is a member of the program advisory board for the German contribution to a European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.

Zimmermann worked for expert commissions of the German Bundestag for three consecutive legislative periods . From 1998 to 2002 he was head of the art and culture working group of the Information Society Forum set up by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and a member of the Study Commission for the Future of Civic Engagement . In the 15th legislative period from 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag 's study commission on culture in Germany . This work continued into the following legislative period up to its final report in 2007.

In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Zimmermann was appointed to the main jury of the German Computer Game Award (DCP), and in 2018, 2019 and 2020 he is chairman of the main jury of the German Computer Game Award.

He is the spokesman for the “ Initiative cultural integration ” of the German Cultural Council, founded in December 2016 , which is committed to social cohesion and togetherness. The initiative for cultural integration is based on a suggestion by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the German Culture Council.

Olaf Zimmermann was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2020 .

He lives and works in Berlin, is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

In the labyrinth of artist funding. 1992.
The exhibition business. 1993.
Media work and marketing for artists. 1995 (second edition. 1999)
Culture fundraising market of the future. 1995.
with Gabriele Schulz: Cultural Policy for the 21st Century - Requirements for the Information Society. 1999.
with Gabriele Schulz: Further education in artistic and cultural professions. 1999.
Copyright - A short and easy-to-understand introduction to copyright law for visual artists. 1999.
with Gabriele Schulz: Artists' Social Insurance - Cultural Policy Background Information. Volume 1, 2000.
with Gabriele Schulz: dream job artist. 2002.
with Gabriele Schulz: Future culture industry. 2009.
with Gabriele Schulz: The WDR as a cultural actor - aspiration • expectation • reality. 2009.
Cultural policy in a nutshell: Comments and terms by Olaf Zimmermann (= From Politics & Culture. Volume 12). AZ Druck, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-934868-32-8 .

Editing:

with Gabriele Schulz: Cultural Education in the Knowledge Society - Future of the Cultural Professions. 2002.
with Gabriele Schulz: In the labyrinth of cultural responsibilities: A manual. 2005.
with Gabriele Schulz: Cultural education in the educational reform discussion. Conception of cultural education. 2005.
with Theo Geißler : Computer games dispute: Computer games between cultural education, artistic freedom and the protection of minors. 2007 (2nd expanded edition. 2009).
with Theo Geißler: The churches, the unknown cultural-political power. 2007.
with Gabriele Schulz: Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Draft of a III. Law amending the Artists' Social Insurance Act, Background and Current Requirements , 2007.
with Theo Geißler: cultural politics of the parties: visions, programs, history, differences. 2008.
with Theo Geißler: Digitization: Art and Culture 2.0. 2010.
with Theo Geißler: Artist's Life: Between Hype and Average. 2010.
with Theo Geißler: Germany's cultural landscape: The province is alive. 2010.
with Theo Geißler: Experience cultural diversity: opportunities and challenges of intercultural education (= From Politics & Culture. No. 8). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-934868-27-4 .
with Theo Geißler: Labor market culture: From niche market to booming industry (= From Politics & Culture. No. 9). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-934868-28-1 .
with Theo Geißler: Disputations I. Reflections on the Reformation anniversary 2017 (= From Politics & Culture. No. 10). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-934868-29-8 ; extended and updated 2nd edition 2015.7.
with Wolfgang Börnsen , Eberhard Junkersdorf: Red carpet for culture. Words to speak on cultural policy (commemorative publication on the occasion of Bernd Neumann's 70th birthday ). Be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2012.
with Gabriele Schulz and Rainer Hufnagel: Arbeitsmarkt Kultur. On the economic and social situation in cultural professions. German Cultural Council, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-934868-30-4 .
with Theo Geißler: Islam. Culture. Politics (= From Politics & Culture. No. 11). AZ Druck Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-934868-31-1 .
with Klaus-Dieter Lehmann : Making the world more readable. Portrait of the Goethe Institute. DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-939670-92-6 .
with Theo Geißler: TTIP, CETA & Co. The effects of the free trade agreements on culture and the media (= From Politics & Culture. Volume 13). Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-934868-34-2 (online) (2nd expanded edition, 2016, ISBN 978-3-934868-39-7 ).
with Theo Geißler : Old stuff: Contributions to the discussion on the sustainable protection of cultural assets (= From Politics & Culture. Volume 14). Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-934868-38-0 . (online) .
with Theo Geissler: Martin Luther Superstar - 500 years of the Reformation. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-934868-40-3 .
with Gabriele Schulz, Carolin Ries, Theresa Brüheim, Barbara Haack, Ruth Sandforth and Friederike Wapler: Women in Culture and Media. An overview of current trends, developments and proposed solutions. German Cultural Council, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-934868-41-0 .
Cultural Integration Initiative. Cohesion in diversity. 15 theses on cultural integration and cohesion. ConBrio, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-947308-00-2 .
with Theo Geißler: Debate on values: From leading culture to cultural integration. German Cultural Council, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947308-06-4 .
Kissed awake - 20 years of new federal cultural policy 1998–2018. German Cultural Council, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947308-10-1 .
with Theo Geißler: The third pillar: Foreign cultural and educational policy (from politics & culture). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947308-08-8 .
with Theo Geißler: Colonialism Debate: Inventory and Consequences (From Politics & Culture). German Cultural Council, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947308-18-7

literature

Who is Who - The German Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-7950-2029-8 , p. 1578.
Cultural policy in a nutshell: Comments and terms from Olaf Zimmermann. Berlin 2014 ( online ).
Kissed awake - 20 years of new federal cultural policy 1998–2018. German Cultural Council, Berlin 2018 ( online ).
Colonialism Debate: Inventory and Consequences . German Cultural Council, Berlin 2019 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

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^ Homepage of the Federal Cultural Foundation Foundation Advisory Board , accessed on February 5, 2013.

↑ Homepage Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg - Silesian Upper Lusatia Top News from January 21, 2015: New EKBO church parliament comes together for first meeting ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ Study Commission Culture in Germany (PDF; 6.8 MB)

↑ Jury. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .

↑ News on miz.org, March 6, 2020

personal data
SURNAME	Carpenter, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publicist, art dealer and managing director of the German Cultural Council
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Limburg on the Lahn