Vera Allmanritter

Prof. Dr. Vera Allmanritter is a political scientist and cultural manager. She heads the Institute for Research on Cultural Participation (IKTf) at Berlin’s Foundation for Cultural Further Education and Cultural Advice. She is an honorary professor of culture and management at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Previously, she was a research assistant at the University of Hildesheim, she worked at the Jewish Museum Berlin, was coordinator of the Centre for Audience Development at the Freie Universität of Berlin, and worked as a freelance cultural manager for many years. She is co-spokesperson of the working group “Methods of Empirical (Culture User) Research” and deputy spokesperson of the Goethe-Institute’s “Education and Discourse” advisory board. She completed her doctorate at the PH Ludwigsburg with a thesis on “Audience Development in the Migration Society”. She researches and publishes on cultural participation, cultural management, cultural marketing, cultural visitor research, audience development, and empirical research methods and has also taught on these topics at numerous universities.