Ingolf Kern takes over as Head of the Media and Communications Department of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Press release from 09/26/2014
On 1 October 2014, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will establish a new Media and Communications Department. The 48-year-old journalist Ingolf Kern will take over as head.
Kern was previously spokesman for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation for five years and editor in charge of the magazine "bauhaus". He is very familiar with the topics of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation from his previous activities in the areas of feature pages and cultural policy.
Born in Bad Muskau, Kern began his career as an editor at the daily newspaper "Neue Zeit", a subsidiary of the F.A.Z. for the new federal states. After two years as spokesman for the Berlin Senator for Cultural Affairs, Ulrich Roloff-Momin, Kern switched back to journalism. Between 1996 and 2000, he was responsible for the Berlin feature section of the daily newspaper "Die Welt", after which he was feature correspondent and managing editor of the "Berliner Seiten" of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". From 2003 to 2005, Ingolf Kern was head of public relations for the then Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Minister of State Prof Dr Christina Weiss, in the Federal Chancellery. He then spent almost three years as head of copywriting and deputy editor-in-chief of the art magazine "Monopol" before moving to Dessau. As a freelance author, he wrote for the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" and the magazine "Cicero", among others.
The newly created Media and Communications department combines SPK's press relations, online communications and publications. With a new communications strategy, Germany's largest cultural foundation aims to provide even more accentuated, concise and faster information about its fields of work, to publicise the development of its major projects in particular and to raise its profile as a first port of call for future cultural policy issues.