Team

Ekaterina Degot
Director and Chief Curator
intendanz@steirischerherbst.at

Henriette Gallus
Deputy Director
gallus@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 81

Christoph Platz
Head of Curatorial Affairs
platz@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 75

Rita Puffer
Chief Financial Officer
puffer@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 54

Carina Hutter
Management Assistant/
Coordinator National Project Funding
hutter@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 52


David Riff
Senior Curator
riff@steirischerherbst.at

Mirela Baciak
Curator
baciak@steirischerherbst.at

Dominik Müller
Curator
mueller@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 85

Džana Ajanović
Curatorial Assistant  
ajanovic@steirischerherbst.at

Barbara Seyerl
Curatorial Assistant
seyerl@steirischerherbst.at


Martina Heil
Editorial Coordinator/
Coordinator Communications
heil@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 62

Jeff Thoss
Managing Editor
thoss@steirischerherbst.at

Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga
Website Manager
lazaridou@steirischerherbst.at

Editing & Proofreading
Aaron Bogart
Rainer Wieland

Translations
Amy Klement
Jennifer Taylor


Elke Murlasits
Head of Office of Open
Questions, Education
murlasits@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 90

Markus Boxler
Coordinator Office of Open Questions
boxler@steirischerherbst.at

Markus Plasencia
Coordination Festivalfilme and OEAD K3 Project
plasencia@steirischerherbst.at

Lena Riecnik
Coordination Bookings and Schüler*innentagung
riecnik@steirischerherbst.at

Ulli Mayer
Advisor Education
mayer@steirischerherbst.at

Team Office of Open Questions
Sedra Arab
Verena Borecky
Eva Brede
Valentina Buljan
Kristina Gorke
Laurenz Henkel
Klaudia Kurta
Iryna Orlova
Martin Pobitzer
Julia Robin
Kristina Six

Trainees Office of Open Questions
Lara Hollensteiner
Stella Wolf

Technical suport Office of Open Questions
Martin Pobitzer
David Kurta


Amelie Brandstetter
Production Manager
brandstetter@steirischerherbst.at

Jakob Schweighofer
Senior Production Manager
schweighofer@
steirischerherbst.at

Sebastian Sprenger
Production Manager
sprenger@steirischerherbst.at

Jacqueline Emathinger
Coordinator Production Office
emathinger@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 73

Kathrin Lazarus (maternity leave)
Coordinator Production Office

Johanna Arco
Project Coordinator
arco@steirischerherbst.at

Maria-Oscara Ohrenstein
Coordinator Art Projects Attendants
ohrenstein@steirischerherbst.at

Project Coordinators
Elsa Chinese
Heinz Leitner
Lukas Kaiser
Karola Sakotnik
Martin Pelzmann
Eva Schmartschan
Andreas Schögler
Lisa Schöttel

Project Coordinators Streams & Conferences
Ahmad Darkhabani
Marcel Masten

Karl Masten
Technical Management
masten@steirischerherbst.at

Production Advisor
Peter Schloss

Christine Sbaschnigg
Coordinator Signage
sbaschnigg@steirischerherbst.at


Tim Kirchner
Head of Archive / Library
kirchner@steirischerherbst.at

Marlene Obermayer (maternity leave)
Head of Archive / Library


Judith Brand
Press Officer
brand@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 61

Hannes Bemm
Coordinator Sponsorship, Media Partners and Protocol Events
bemm@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 86

Arash Shahali
Coordinator International Media and Professional Visitors / International Project Funding
shahali@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 87

Assistants Communication
Elisabeth Jagl
Christina Kasic
Melanie Mautner
Alina Radkovic
Sarah Stoffaneller
Diana Thun

Vesna Pajičić
Coordinator Visitors Service
pajicic@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 67

Paranoia TV Headquarters Assistants
Nora Blank
Anna Enge
Paulina Maitz
Paul Wolff


Stefanie Lazarus
Office Management
st.lazarus@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 70

Matthias Ulbl
Accounting
ulbl@steirischerherbst.at
+43 316 823 007 53

Simon Resch
Office Assistant
resch@steirischerherbst.at

Danica Radat
Facility Manager


Grupa Ee
(Mina Fina, Damjan Ilić,
Ivian Kan Mujezinović)
Graphic Design

Documentation
Johanna Lamprecht
Ulrich A. Reiterer
Mathias Völzke
Clara Wildberger

Systemantics
Website

Datenreisebüro
Network Support

digitalis
Network Support

Kaya Kipcak
Database


Festival Drivers
Bernd Birnbauer
Christian Jalen

Christoph Posch
Bike Courier