Ricarda Ciontos – Artistic Director and General Manager
Ricarda Ciontos, born in 1968 in Sibiu, Romania, came to Heidelberg in 1978. She studied at the College of Music and the Performing Arts in Saarbrücken. Ciontos lived and worked as an actress in Vienna, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Bochum and Bucharest. She has lived in Berlin since 2002. In 2006, she founded NORDWIND festival, which quickly grew into an important platform for the Nordic arts in Europe. Apart from NORDWIND, she also worked as a curator and producer with Future Perfect Productions. She also teaches and is a mentor in the PAP – Performing Arts Programme Berlin and at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder.
Gabriela Vasileva – Production Management
Gabriela Vasileva studied Romance languages, Slavic studies (University of Hamburg) and cultural studies (University of Leuphana, Lüneburg) and works as a freelance cultural manager and production manager. Her main interests lie in decolonization processes, social and economic justice and sustainability and are examined from different perspectives (practice, science).
Hannes Müller – Production assistance & social media
Hannes Müller studies literature and French at Freie Universität Berlin. Among other things, he worked at Literaturhaus Berlin, where he helped to organise the festival ‘Dont Look Back’.