Marc Calmbach

Dr. Marc Calmbach established the SINUS youth research, built up the Berlin office and co-conceived SINUS-Akademie. Sociology has come up with the concept of ‘patchwork identity’ for people like Marc Calmbach. Via an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk, a one-year stay in South America incl. youth social work, a job as a forklift driver, a return to school to gain his university entrance qualification, an engagement with the music channel Viva2, hundreds of gigs worldwide as a musician and DJ, a degree in Media Economics and a doctorate in cultural sociology, he (finally) found his way to SINUS-Institut in 2008, where he has been leading the Research & Consulting department since 2010 with Dr. Silke Borgstedt. He has been Managing Director at SINUS since 2021. His main areas of work are: youth, religion, (political) education and migration. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on youth topics and has published numerous specialist books and articles with renowned publishing houses.