The team behind Weltkulturen Education

We work along these working principles. 

The team of education are Julia Albrecht, Stephanie Endter and Leonie Männich (research assistant)  together with a group of freelancers.

1. Julia Albrecht is a cultural mediator and systemic consultant. Since her master's degree in English Studies (New English Literatures and Cultures) and American Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, she has been working on racism-critical and post-colonial issues. As part of a second degree in social work and social pedagogy, she worked as an intern and then as a volunteer at Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum. Since the beginning of September 2018, she has been working in the education and outreach department of the Weltkulturen Museum. Her work focuses on diversity and outreach as well as decolonial, racism-critical approaches to education. At the Weltkulturen Museum, she co-curated the exhibition "Hidden in Plain Sight. On Making Invisible and Becoming Visible" (2021).
2. Stephanie Endter has been working in the cultural sector for 20 years. She has been curator for education and outreach at the Weltkulturen Museum since 2011. Her practice is based on an anti-racist approach. Her main areas of interest are decolonization, questioning Eurocentric perspectives, joint learning and transdisciplinary collaboration.
   
3. Claudia Gaida studied inderdisciplinary art, performance and feminism at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Frankfurt and in Vienna. She currently teaches in the area of aesthetic practice and social education at the Internationale Berufsakademie Darmstadt and Heidelberg.
   
4. Gregor Glogowski works as a director, sound artist and mediator. He studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. He is co-founder of the artist collective Matter of Facts Studio and part of the duo Glogowski/Hoesch, whose work is shown internationally.
   
5. Katharina Hantke studied art in Offenbach and has been working as a freelance illustrator, performer, conceptual artist, and workshop leader since 2022. In her work, she often explores queer feminist themes, pop culture, and myths. She works with media such as drawing, risography, linocut, Tiffany glass, performance, and other techniques, depending on the needs of each project.
6. Ute Hecht studied art history and general and comparative literature. Among other things, she has worked as an editor and lecturer for German as a foreign language. Currently she is working as an educator in three Museums in Frankfurt. She lived in Senegal from 2006-2011.
7. Charlotte Helmer studied social and cultural anthropology in Frankfurt, with a regional focus on Latin America (Peru). Since her time as a teaching assistant at Goethe University, she has been passionate about mediating ethnological topics. Her interests also include international power relations, dependencies, and interconnections.
8. Valentin Krayl earned a master's degree in “Information and Communication” from Münster University of Applied Sciences. Today, he works as a freelance illustrator, comic artist, and (last but not least) as the director of various creative workshops. He particularly enjoys working with children and young people to create new worlds of images and stories.
9. Juliane Kutter studied art with a focus on photography and experimental spatial concepts in Offenbach and graduated in 2018. She works as an artist and photographer in Offenbach. In her art and also in her mediation, in the form of guided tours and workshops, she deals with the topics of the representation of bodies in society as well as the formation of opinions and the expression of these in various forms.
   
10. Iris Loew studied cultural anthropology in Leipzig and Heidelberg with a focus on applied cultural anthropology, migration research and media anthropology. She implements socio-anthropological educational projects and teaches German as a foreign language.
11. Hosnijah Mehr hat Jura studiert und beschäftigte sich im Rahmen dessen in ihrem Schwerpunkt mit dem Europa- und Völkerrecht. Seit über 12 Jahren bewegt sie sich nebenbei in verschiedenen Kunst- und Kulturkreisen und ist zudem als Spoken Word Künstlerin tätig. Dabei setzt sie sich in ihrer Kunst vor allem mit gesellschaftskritischen aber auch philosophischen Themen auseinander. 
12. Leonie Männich studied Latin American and Ancient American Studies at bachelor's level and Cultural and Social Anthropology and Gender Studies at master's level. Her main areas of interest are feminism, the body and emotions, protest, violence and memory, and anti-colonial thinking, with a focus on Colombia and Chile. Since September 2025, she has been a research assistant in education and outreach at the Weltkulturen Museum. 
13. Alisa Napitupulu is a masters-student in social- and cultural anthropology in Frankfurt with a regional fochs on India (specifically: Orissa). After completing her bachelor's degree in ethnology, she was employed at the legacies database of the Frobenius-Institute.

1. Alex Novačesković is a Master's student of Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media with a focus on Transcultural Anglophone Studies and Literary and Cultural History. She is particularly interested in postcolonial theories, transculturality and power-critical issues.
2. Frederike Ohnewald studied social work with a focus on cultural and media education in Frankfurt. She is currently studying art history and theater studies in Mainz. As part of her studies, she completed an internship in education at the Weltkulturen Museum. 
3. Clara-Marie Rutjes is a certified speech-language pathologist who went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in cultural and media education and is now pursuing a master’s degree in cultural education in Frankfurt. A key focus of her work is the history of the GDR and the period of transformation, and its significance for the present day. She is also currently interested in how her expertise in speech-language pathology can be integrated into educational concepts.
4. Debora Schöbel studied geography in Erlangen and Bonn and has since worked as an education coordinator in the field of education for sustainable development. During her studies, she already focussed on post-colonial and power-critical topics.
5. Irina Scelsi studied sociology and anthropology, trained as an art teacher on the side and works in Offenbach. Concerning art, she focuses on the expression of feelings and emotions and in sociology she is constantly dealing with queer-feminist and racism-critical topics.
6. Matilde Vergara is a bachelor student of ethnology in Frankfurt and works as a student assistant at the Frobenius Institute, among other things for the estate archive and the project "The German ethnographic expeditions in the Australian Kimberley".

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