Dirk Kiefer
MA Arts Management
Now lecturing in Marketing and Communications on the MA Arts Policy and Management, Dirk is happy to be back at Birkbeck.
For six years Dirk led the marketing department of the new concert hall 'Nikolaisaal' in Potsdam (Germany). Responsible for profile and brand development as well as curating the non-classical music programming, he influenced the venue’s course from inception to its role as the dominating multi-venue arts complex in the region.
Since the early 1990s, Dirk has worked as an arts producer across Europe and North America. He is currently Artistic Director of two music festivals in Berlin and Poland and has produced work across multiple art forms such as a cross-disciplinary Taiwanese dance production at UCLA (USA), opera at the Théatre La Villette in Paris and other projects in theatre, visual arts and film. Most recently Dirk concentrates on digital innovation technologies and the role of art and culture within the creative economy concept. This includes work for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in London and the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.
