Auspices
Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (retired), is patron of the artists program ‘Artist in Residence Siegen’.
Resume
Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen was born in Aachen on April 25, 1954 and is a fully qualified lawyer. She was awarded the Deutscher Kulturpolitikpreis 2023 by the Deutscher Kulturrat.
since October 2023 | Managing Director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung |
June 2017 – June 2022 | Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (retired) |
2004 – 2017 | General Secretary of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States |
1999 – 2004 | Councillor for Culture and Social Affairs of the City of Aachen |
1989 – 1999 | Chancellor of the Hochschule für Musik Köln |
1985 – 1988 | Policy Analyst of Hamburg’s Ministry of Science and Research |