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Before the gallery ludwig space was founded, cultural manager Dietlinde Behncke and her communications agency behncke communications had successfully bridged the gap between business and culture in Berlin and Munich for over 20 years. Interested in art, literature, theater and opera since her youth, she has worked at many important houses such as Suhrkamp Verlag, the culture department of the ZDF capital studio in Berlin, the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum and with Roman Soukup (former managing director of documenta X). On the other hand, through her studies at Oxford University and INSEAD Business School, she can draw on extensive alumni networks in broad economic sectors and has further deepened these business contacts and experiences through her professional positions. She is an active member of various national and international friends and support groups for art and culture.

Voluntary work: Advisory board member of PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne e.V.. 2009 Founder PIN. Young Circle, leader until the end of 2012 with approx. 160 members (PIN. YC celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2021 (postponed due to Corona) with more than 200 members).

• 2017 and 2018 future conference of the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (co-founder), talk marathon & moderation with guests including Bernhart Schwenk, Edeltraud Leibrock, Stefan Burdach, Julia Leeb, Gordon Cheng, Angelika Nollert.
• 2016 Relaunch of the agency in Munich under the name behncke communications
• 2014 Founding of Munich Speech® (non-profit platform for contemporary art, society and politics) with guests including Bart van der Heide, Wolfgang Heubisch, Roger Diederen, Angelika Nollert, Alexander Liebreich, Maurin Dietrich, Bernhard Maaz, Andrea Lissoni , Eva Krauss, Sarah Haugeneder, Karen Pontoppidan, Serge Dorny, Oliver Kase, Markus Michalke & Anna Kleeblatt, Max Wagner, Rüdiger Schöttle, etc.
• 1999 Foundation of the agency stephan communications in Berlin
• INSEAD General Management Program Leipzig/ Fontainebleau ParisExhibition manager in Dresden and Weimar Cooperation with Roman Soukup (Arts Management GmbH).
• Opening exhibition Capital of Culture Weimar 1999 with the Joseph Beuys photographer Ute Klophaus in cooperation with FAZ, Walther König and tour to the Haus der Kunst/ Hubertus Gaßner (main curator)
• Gallery Manager Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Founding phase with Max Hollein, Thomas Krenz, Hilmar Kopper and US architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, NY
• Culture Editor ZDF Capital Studio Berlin/ for ZDF, 3sat, arte and moderation with Carola Wedel. Interviews/ reporting on Klaus Biesenbach/ Dan Graham's Café Bravo, Christoph Schlingensief or the gallery scene (including neugerriemschneider/ Tim Neuger, Burkhard Riemschneider, Eigen + Art/ Judy Lybke, Max Hetzler, Martin Klosterfelde, Galerie Neu/ Alexander Schroeder, Thilo Werke)
• Film direction New York University
• M.A. in economics, politics, philosophy (PPE) with an EU scholarship, Oxford University internship (New German Literature, Christian Döring) and then editing (series st) Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. Editing by Durs Grünbein, among others (Georg Büchner Prize, Friedrich Nietzsche Prize, Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, among others) or Thomas Hettche (2021 Tübingen poetry lectureship with Eva Manesse) bookselling clerk Buchhandlung Kaiser/ Goltz am Marienplatz, Munich