Arts Production and Cultural Policy
in Transformation

Since 2015, Prof Dr Martin Tröndle has held the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. His work deals with a large variety of topics, all revolving around the production, distribution, and reception of the arts. Tröndle was the principal investigator of eMotion – Mapping Museum Experience (2008–14), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. eMotion experimentally analysed the experiences of museum-goers, looking primarily at the museum architecture, art objects, and curatorial design and how these effect and affect the behaviour of museum visitors. Tröndle is now principal investigator of Experimental Concert Research (2018–), supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and others, a project that experimentally analyses the concert experience. Since 2014, Tröndle has been Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement: Kunst, Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft / Journal of Cultural Management: Arts, Policy, Economics, and Society. Among others, he is the editor of the two-volume concert studies reader Das Konzert: Neue Aufführungskonzepte für eine klassische Form (2011, 2nd ed.) and Das Konzert II: Beiträge zum Forschungsfeld der Concert Studies (2018).

Karen van den Berg is Professor of Art Theory and Curating at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. She studied art history, classical archaeology, and Nordic philology in Saarbrücken and Basel. Her doctoral thesis on Matthias Grünewald was supervised by Gottfried Boehm and received support through a Friedrich Naumann Foundation stipend. Van den Berg also earned the Max-Imdahl-Stipendium für Kunstvermittlung in 1994–96. From 1993 to 2003, she was a regular lecturer and research fellow for art history and theory at Witten/Herdecke University, and research stays and teaching posts have brought her to numerous internationally acclaimed institutions, including the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; Bauhaus University, Weimar; Parsons New School for Design, New York; and Europäisches Kolleg Jena. She was also a visiting scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University in California and a fellow at Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) in Weimar. Her research focuses on the theory and history of display, museums, educational architecture, art and politics, artistic epistemes, art market studies, and studio practice.

Udo Göttlich is Professor of General Media and Communication Studies at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. His main areas of work and research are media, communications and cultural sociology, reception and audience research, cultural studies approaches, theory of public sphere, and sociological theory.

Franz Schultheis is Senior Professor of Sociology of Art and Creative Industries at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. He received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz, followed by his habilitation at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, under Pierre Bourdieu. Prior to his professorship at Zeppelin University, Schultheis held posts at the universities of Neuchâtel, Geneva, and St. Gallen in Switzerland. He was also Research Councillor at the Swiss National Science Foundation (2000–10) and Vice President of the Swiss Science Council (2010–19), both in Bern, and has been President of the Bourdieu Foundation, St. Gallen, since 2007. Schultheis is a member of the editorial board of Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales; co-editor (with Stefan Egger) of Pierre Bourdieu’s collected writings, published by Suhrkamp; editor of the series Questions sociologiques, released by Edition L’Harmattan, Paris; and Vice President of the publisher Les Éditions Raisons d’Agir, Paris.

Constance DeVereaux is Associate Professor and Director of the MFA program Arts Leadership and Cultural Management at University of Connecticut. She studied political philosophy, public policy, and legal theory at Claremont Graduate University in the US, completing her doctorate with the thesis: Artist, Citizen, State: A Theory of Arts Policy. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist, she has provided expertise to universities, municipalities, and organisations in South Africa, Romania, and Finland on matters of cultural policy, cultural management, and culture-led development. She is a member of the international research team UNESCO and the Making of Global Cultural Policy funded by the Australian Research Council. She serves on the executive editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement: Kunst, Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft / Journal of Cultural Management: Arts, Policy, Economics, and Society.
Her research interests include culturally sustainable entrepreneurship, cultural hybridity, and the use of narrative for cultural policy analysis. Recent published works include Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field and Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World. She has also published articles in Journal of Cultural Management and Policy, the Annals of Tourism, the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Kultūros Barai, and Philosophia.

Before joining academia, Leticia Labaronne studied performing arts in the United States and worked as a professional ballet dancer in Europe for over 10 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the United Kingdom and a Master of Science in Public and Non-profit Management from Switzerland. Since 2009, Labaronne has been working with the Center for Arts Management at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. In 2019, she became a Head of ZHAW’s Center for Arts Management and currently directs its executive Master of Advanced Studies in Arts Management programme. Between 2015 and 2019, Labaronne completed her doctoral thesis, “(Re-)presenting Artistic Performance: A Contextualized Framework for Evaluating Performing Arts Organizations,” at the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. Her consulting and research focus is cultural policy, fundraising, and evaluation in the non-profit and arts sectors. The research focus of her doctorate—evaluation practices in the performing arts—was motivated by her previous artistic career, and Labaronne continues to apply her working knowledge of the field to the exploration of new research paradigms that can better capture the complexity of artistic activities and shed more light on creative processes in the performing arts.

Further information on Labaronne’s doctoral dissertation

Nico Stockmann completed his bachelor’s degree in Communication and Cultural Management with a minor in Corporate Management and Economics at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, and the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Since 2015, he has worked in different functions at the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production at Zeppelin University, and also held a position as a process innovation and quality manager at CODE University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. Supported by a graduate scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Stockmann is currently completing a Master of Social Sciences in Global Politics and Communication at the University of Helsinki.