Simone Hofmann (cultural manager)

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Simone Hofmann (* 17th August 1964 in Dresden ) is a German culture - and music - event - manager , the initiator and organizer of the Berlin Fête de la Musique was.

Family, training and qualification

Simone Hofmann was born in 1964 as the younger daughter of the physicist Ulrich Hofmann and his wife, the museum educator Oktjabrina Wartanowna Hofmann . Abgarjan (1926–2018) born in Dresden . When she was six years old, the family moved because of the appeal of her father in the management of the Sciences in Berlin German Academy of Berlin to. Here she is together with her older sister Ilona-Carmen Leisenberg, geb. Hofmann (* 1959) grew up and went to school. Simone Hofmann came into contact with music in many ways, she also sang in the school choir for many years and has been listening to music of all styles, a lot of classical music and chanson ever since.

From 1981 to 1983 she attended Gymnasium II ( Extended High School EOS) in Berlin-Mitte (so-called "Gray Monastery"). After graduating from high school , Simone Hofmann began her career from 1984 to 1985 as a clerk for finance at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). She then switched to business and was from 1986 to 1987 as a dispatcher in the furniture industry at the Möbel-Max trading company.

From 1987 to 1989 she worked as an office organizer / secretary at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin , where she also completed an apprenticeship with a qualification as a business clerk .

After German reunification , Simone Hofmann completed an extra-occupational course in "culture media management" with a focus on "event management and public relations" at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin from 1991 to 1993 , studying with Klaus Siebenhaar ; this course has now been affiliated to the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin).

Furthermore, she qualified from 2002 to 2004 in a part-time course in "Project Management Economics" at the Administration and Business Academy (VWA) Berlin.

Simone Hofmann lives in the Berlin district of “Prenzlauer Berg”; their daughter Josefine Hofmann was born in 1983.

Culture event manager

From 1990 to 1991 she was the music manager of jazz ensembles and also responsible for their tour organization.

From 1991 to 1993 she worked as a project manager and event organizer for "Musikszene eV" in the Kulturbrauerei Berlin.

In 1994, Simone Hofmann was part of the organization team for the “X 94 - Young Art and Culture” festival, specifically responsible for music events. The organizer was the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) . The festival presented around 270 events at various locations in Berlin with around 800 domestic and foreign artists.

Fete de la Musique

The period from 1995 to 2017 made Simone Hofmann known as a cultural events manager in the greater Berlin area and beyond, as well as abroad: “The Festival of Music in Berlin - Fête de la Musique”; Client: Governing Mayor, Berlin Senate Chancellery or Berlin Senate for Culture - i.e. changing partners. The Fête de la Musique, which originated in France in 1982, has been held every year since the beginning of summer on June 21, the longest day of the year. Initially 80 cities around the world took part in the music festival, now there are 540 cities in 106 countries, 300 of which are in Europe and around 50 in Germany.

Simone Hofmann has brought the Fête de la Musique to Berlin. Over a 23-year period, she brought the entire spectrum of her relevant training, qualifications and experience to this event, which is considered the largest, decentralized music festival on Berlin's streets and squares. As the curator, director and managing director of the entire event, she also bore full responsibility. Simone Hofmann began preparing for this cultural event in June around October of the previous year. The Fête de la Musique kept them busy the whole year, starting with the overall concept of this major event in accordance with the respective client and the intellectual partner France , through cost planning and controlling according to time, budget and quality, including the acquisition of third-party funds and personnel management and the Advice to the participating stage partners.

Musicians who wanted to take part could apply online until the end of February. Simone Hofmann and her staff sorted the approximately 450 applications submitted according to genres such as pop, classical, electro, world music, jazz, songwriter and choral singing - this diversity makes up the Fête de la Musique, as does the decentralized performances with typical citizen proximity.

Her tasks also included the official approval procedures (special land use and immission control) in all twelve Berlin city districts, media planning and implementation, marketing, public relations with the function of press officer and complaint management. In total, Simone Hofmann had around 700 one-on-one meetings.

This major Berlin event was financed by the Berlin Senate for Culture and substantial funds from the German Lottery Foundation until 2017 . After the Berlin Senate for Culture repeatedly failed to reach agreement on the future financing of the event, Simone Hofmann finally withdrew as the organizer of the “Fête de la Musique” Berlin after 23 years in June 2017. At the same time, she protested against the "unsystematic financing practice" by the state of Berlin. "I hope that this charming, timeless music festival will finally have planning security through its inclusion in the Berlin state budget in the form of institutional funding and that this unworthy begging will come to an end," explained Hofmann. She is no longer available for any further organization of the Fête de la Musique.

Carnival of the Cultures

Simone Hofmann worked for the Carnival of Cultures from 1996 to 1998 as production manager for the street parade and then from 1999 to 2001 as production manager for the street festival. Her area of ​​responsibility included the technical and logistical management, the entire official approval procedure including the agreements with the police, security, first aid, cleaning and much more

Lucia Christmas Market

The Lucia Christmas market in the Kulturbrauerei Berlin has been a four-week market with around 70 stalls and structures since 2000. Its extensive cultural offer goes back to the Swedish Lucia Festival . The organizer of this popular Christmas market, which recurs every year, is “Ketering Veranstaltung GmbH”.

From 2000 to 2016, Simone Hofmann was in charge of management for a wide range of tasks such as program design, marketing, acquisition / support for media and cooperation partners, media planning and implementation, updating the website, public relations and press spokeswoman. In 2017 Simone Hofmann sold her project company shares to Ketering GmbH.

Memberships, engagement and awards

  • 1994–1998 member of the advisory board for popular music at the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture
  • 2001–2008 founding member of Club Commission Berlin , deputy chairwoman of the board; Main topics: GEMA, cultural policy, music industry
  • 2003–2008 trainer for the profession of "event clerk"
  • 2008–2017 founding member of the Berlin Music Commission cooperative , from 2008 to 2014 member of the board of trustees, from 2014 to 2017 member of the supervisory board.
  • 2011 Award: Insignia of a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres - in recognition of the services rendered to cultural cooperation between Germany and France , awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. This order is one of the four ministerial orders of the French Republic and is therefore one of the most important honors.
  • 2017 Listen to Berlin Award on the occasion of the 10th birthday of the "Berlin Music Commission", Category: Prize for initiators, 1st place. The award sees itself as a predicate for remarkable achievements in the Berlin music industry. http://listen-to-berlin-award.de/

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FU Berlin, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Institute for Culture and Media Management http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we08/index.html
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, June 19, 2016: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/24249712 © 2018
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, June 22, 2017: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/27841874 © 2018
  4. ↑ Brief profile of Simone Hofmann: http://listen-to-berlin-award.de/portfolio-item/simone-hofmann-2/
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German culture-music-event manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden