Born in the Netherlands in 1966, Jurriaan has lived in Switzerland since 1994.

He has been the head of Performing Arts Services, a production agency that organises theatre and dance productions, tours, etc., and has worked in collaboration with, amongst others, the Od-theater, Circle X Arts, Sankai Juku, Werkbühne Berlin and Goetheanum. Jurriaan is the driving force behind CULTURESCAPES and has organised festivals with many well-known composers, for example Gubaidulina, Kurtag, Firssowa, Hosokawa, Kancheli, Silvestrov and Lampson.

In September 2004, he successfully graduated from the University of Basel having studied Cultural Management at post-graduate level. Since 2008 Jurriaan Cooiman is a member of the European Cultural Parliament.

jcooiman@culturescapes.ch

Katharina lived and worked in China between 2000 and 2009.

She has worked as a freelance documentary maker ("My camera doesn't lie"), TV producer and researcher for Austrian broadcaster ORF and other European TV stations, and as a journalist and film festival curator in Beijing.

kschneiderroos@culturescapes.ch

Born in Leipzig in 1985, Franziska has lived in Basel since 2007.

She has been working for CULTURESCAPES since 2006.
She previously completed work placements at the German TV station RBB (2005) and the news agency REUTERS (2005) in Berlin, and as a production assistant at the Neue Theater am Bahnhof Dornach and the Od-theater for the anniversary production of The Abduction from the Seraglio (February/March 2006, Dornach) and the theatre production of Antigone (September/October 2006, Basel) respectively.

Franziska graduated from the University of Potsdam in European Media Science (BA) in September 2007 and has been studying Cultural Management (MA) part time since October 2009.

fschmidt@culturescapes.ch

Born in Potsdam in 1982, Stefanie has lived in France since 2007.

She has been working for CULTURESCAPES since 2009.

She previously completed work placements in the editorial field (Elbe-Elster Rundschau, 2003, BILD Berlin, 2005) as well as in the field of project management and cultural activities at the Goethe Institute Strasbourg (2006) and during the Festival Première (2006) in Strasbourg at the Theater Le Maillon, Scène européenne.

She has also worked as a research assistant in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, and was responsible for editing and the layout of the German publication "Kunst und Wissenschaft" (published by Ott/Mersch, 2007). After graduating from the University of Potsdam in European Media Science (BA / MA) in 2007, Stefanie worked for two years in the field of international public relations for La Filature, Scène nationale - Mulhouse.

skeller@culturescapes.ch

Born in Waldshut-Tiengen in 1982.

Eva has been working for CULTURESCAPES since 2009.

During her studies, she completed work placements within the field of exhibitions, including curatorial work for an exhibition project at the University of Frankfurt am Main including the publication of an exhibition catalogue. Eva has also worked as a project assistant for "artsite.tv" in Frankfurt am Main. In January 2009, she successfully graduated from the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main having studied Art History and Cultural Anthropology.

efalge@culturescapes.ch