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Educational background: 1983-88 Studies in German Language and Literature and Slavic Studies at the University of Budapest, Hungary (ELTE) 1988 Diploma in German and Slavic Studies at the University of Budapest, (ELTE) 1988-91 Postgradual Studies in German Literature (ELTE) 1989-90 DAAD-Research fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, Germany 1991 Doctoris Universitatis (ELTE, Budapest) 1991-94 Postgradual Studies in Aesthetics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. Phil., ELTE Budapest) 2000 Training and Qualification in Public Servent (Foreign Affairs) Professional background: 1993-2005 assistant professor of German Literature at the University of Budapest (ELTE) 1999 Advisor of the Cultural State Secretary at the Hungarian Ministry for Culture 2000-2004 Diplomat at the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin (Head of the Cultural Department, Member in the Political Department) 2004-2005 Initiator and Executive Director of the KULTURJAHR der ZEHN, the Cultural Festival of the ten new EU-member states 2008/2009 Executive Director of “Double Memory: 20 Years European Freedom” Since 2008 University Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin Since 2004 Founding and Managing Director, Member of the Board of the “Association Dialogue and Culture in the Enlarged Europe” (Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kultur im erweiterten Europa” Language skills: Hungarian, German, English, Russian Honorary appointments: 1997 Co-Founder of the Congress of Young Academics in German Studies in Hungary 2001-2004 Founder and Head of the Cultural Diplomats Circle in Berlin, since 2004 Honorary President 2004-2005 Member on the European Committee of the German Cultural Council (Deutscher Kulturrat) Since 2004 Member of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP) 2005 - 2009 Member of the advisory board of “Forum Zukunft Berlin - Capital potentials” at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 2006 Expert`s report for the Enquete Kommission “Kultur in Deutschland”, Deutscher Bundestag (Parliamentary Commission on Culture in Germany) 2006 Member of the preparatory committee of the “Europe Hall” at the 31th Protestant Church Congress (Evangelischer Kirchentag) Publications Der Europa-Almanach. Hg. von Zsuzsa Breier, Hermann Rudolph. Berlin: Bostelmann & Siebenhaar 2005, 144 S. A német kulturális külpolitika [German Cultural Foreign Policy] In: Stratégia és kultúra: Kulturális külpolitika az új kihívások tükrében. red. Éger György, Kiss J. László. Budapest: 2004, S.197-217 Poetologie in Diktatur und Freiheit. In: Europa im Wandel. Literatur, Werte und europäische Identität. Hg. von Michael Braun, Lars Peter Schmidt, Klaus Weigelt. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 2006, S.283-296 Essays on political and cultural issues in amongst others: DIE WELT (German Daily Paper), MDR WDR (radio stations), Budapester Beiträge zur Germanistik
