Vital Village – Development of Rural Areas as a Challenge for Cultural Policy: Cultural and Museum Management

Wolfgang Schneider (Prof. Dr.) is chairman of the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., personal member of the German UNESCO Commission, tutor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, member of the federal board of the Cultural Forum of Social Democracy as well as of the board of Initiative für die Archive des Freien Theaters e.V., honorary member of ASSITEJ Germany and Switzerland, and honorary president of Internationale Vereinigung des Theaters für Kinder und Jugendliche. He was the founding director of the Department for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim and holder of the UNESCO chair »Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development«. He was the first director of Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrum in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, chairman of the theater advisory board of Lower Saxony, member of the dance and theater advisory board of the Goethe-Institut, and rapporteur as an expert member of the Enquete commission »Culture in Germany« of the German Bundestag. In 2018 he was awarded the First Class Federal Cross of Merit.