The Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum is a non profit foundation under civil law and is seated in Dresden. Its purpose is the advancement of science, education, and culture. To achieve it, the foundation receives annual matching contributions from the Free State of Saxony and from the state capital, Dresden. The foundation also receives limited grants from businesses and other foundations. The Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum has three organs: the Management Board, the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board.
Director
Dr Iris Edenheiser. Born in 1977 in Torgau/Elbe. Studied social and cultural anthropology, religious studies and Hispanic studies at the University of Leipzig and the Universidad de Granada (Spain). Doctorate at the University of Trier as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation within the framework of the Research Training Group "Identity and Difference" with research in Ecuador.
Traineeship at the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, then various functions at the Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen (SKD), including Custodian for the Collections from the Americas and Provisional Director. Head of Collections and Department "World Cultures and their Environment" at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums Mannheim and scholarship holder of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in the program Museion21. Until the end of 2021 Deputy Director at the Museum of European Cultures - National Museums in Berlin.
Curatorial cooperation projects, among others, with the Vatican Museums on the Dresden sculptor Ferdinand Pettrich in the Albertinum Dresden, and with the U'mista Culture Centre in Alert Bay, Canada. Lectures at the HTW Berlin, Master's program Museum Management and Communication, among others on protest cultures in museums, and at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle. Recent conferences and editorships: "What's Missing? Collecting and Exhibiting Europe" (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation), "Provenance Research on Ethnological Collections of the Colonial Period" (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation), and on Introduction to Museum Anthropology (funded by the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation). Member of the advisory board for the course "Museum Management and Communication", HTW Berlin.
Director of Finance and Administration
Lisa Klamka. Born in 1990 in Berlin. Studied German Language and Literature, Art history and Economics at the Technical University of Dresden. Accompanying activities as a research assistant at the Institutes of Modern German Literature and Art History.
Worked for several years at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in the controlling departments in the areas of accounting and third-party funding controlling as well as curatorial projects as a research assistant in the department of research and scientific cooperation. Subsequently, personal assistant to the Director of Finance and development of the Internal Audit Department. Since 2021, Director of Finance and Administration and Member of the Board of the Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum.
Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion
Frank-Peter Wieth, Department Head
Saxon State Ministry of Finance
Bernd Engelsberger, Department Head
Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism
Barbara Klepsch, State Minister (Deputy Chairperson)
Municipality of Dresden; Culture and Tourism Department
Annekatrin Klepsch, Mayor (Chairperson)
Municipality of Dresden; Finance and Real Estate Department
Dr. Peter Lames, Mayor
Municipality of Dresden; Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Housing Department
Dr. Kristin Klaudia Kaufmann, Mayor
The Federal Goverment Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Dr. Sebastian Saad, Head of Division
Since Januaray 1st, 2023
Prof. Dr. Magdalena Buchczyk
Junior Professor for Social Anthropology, Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Architect, raumlaborberlin, Berlin; Professor of Fine Arts/Cohabitation, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule, Frankfurt/M.
Beat Hächler
Director of the Alpine Museum of Switzerland, Bern
Prof. Dr. Karin Harrasser
Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Artistic and and Industrial Design, Linz/Austria
Prof. Dr. Susan Kamel
Professor of Collecting and Exhibiting in Theory and Practice, University of Applied Sciences of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen
Professor of Management of Social Change, University of Applied Sciences of Zittau/Görlitz
Prof. em. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder
Emeritus Professor of Paleontology and Geobiology, Freie Universität of Berlin
Miryam Schellbach
Editor, Literary critic and Moderator; Program manager claassen Publishing house, Berlin
