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Silke Müller took over the Communications department of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH on February 1, 2025. She succeeds Johanna Köhler, who has been responsible for documenta gGmbH's press and public relations work since 2018.
"We would like to thank Johanna Köhler for her great commitment and her extremely important and formative work in recent years. At the same time, we are delighted to have found a successor in Silke Müller, who most recently headed up communications at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, one of Germany's largest museum institutions. She not only looks back on considerable expertise in the national and international cultural sector, but also brings with her a journalistic eye for relevant topics and public discourse," says Andreas Hoffmann, Managing Director of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH.
Silke Müller studied art history and modern German literature in Hamburg and completed an editorial traineeship in Kassel. She worked for the art magazine art for twelve years, including as New York correspondent and member of the editorial board. In 2006, she took over the culture department at stern magazine, and in 2013 she moved to the capital city office as a reporter. From 2021, Silke Müller headed the staff department for communications, public relations and marketing at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. As press officer, she built up the Strategic Media Communications team and was responsible for the relaunch of the magazine klassisch modern and the development of the associated digital magazine, artistic communication projects such as Schloss erzählen I-V, Wie Weimar wohnt and das Weimarer Zimmer as well as the topical literary series Gleichzeit with Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman and Krieg und Sprache with Kateryna Mishchenko.
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