Nele Hertling

Nele Hertling
Hertling in 2012
Born
Nele Schröder

(1934-02-23) 23 February 1934 (age 90)
Berlin, Germany
EducationHumboldt University Berlin
Occupations
Organizations
SpouseCornelius Hertling
Awards

Nele Hertling née Schröder (born 23 February 1934) is a German theatre manager and promoter of innovative culture. Working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, from 1962, she has founded regular programs of innovative art in the city, such as Pantomime-Musik-Tanz-Theater in 1970 and the Tanz im August festival in 1988. She managed the program for Berlin as the European City of Culture that year. Hertling is considered the grande dame of the established German Freies Theater [de] (free theatre).[1]

  1. ^ Rolf Hosfeld, Andi Schoon: Festivals 2007/2008. Helmut Metz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-937742-26-7, p. 148.