Board and Trustees of the Lyrik Kabinett Foundation

Founder

Ursula Haeusgen (1942 - 2021)
Founder of the Lyrik Kabinett. 1999 "Silbergriffel" for distinguished services in the mediation and distribution of literature (Stiftung zur Förderung des Schrifttums); 2000 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; 2002 Schwabinger Kunstpreis; 2015 Maecenas Prize (Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute). Honorary senator Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. 

Executive Board

Karl Haeusgen, b. 1966
Studied business administration in St. Gallen (Switzerland); Chief Executive Officer of HAWE Hydraulik SE; President of VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (2020 - 2024).

Prof. Dr. Tobias Döring, b. 1965
Professor for English Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, formerly President of the German Shakespeare Society, contributor to the literary section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 

Dr. Holger Pils, b. 1976
Studied History and German Language and Literature in Heidelberg; since 2014 Managing Director of the Lyrik Kabinett Foundation.

Lutz Wiegand, b. 1945
Auditor

Dr. Elisabeth Donoughue
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst

Christian Döring 
Publisher and critic

Reinhard Gorenflos
Founder and Chairman “Tua Res Foundation”, München

Dr. Florian Höllerer
Director of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB)

Monika Rinck (Chair)
Poet, Vicepresident der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

Dr. Johannes Saltzwedel 
Editor, Spiegel magazine

Dr. Joachim Sartorius 
Poet and translator, Artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele (till 2011)

Dr. Dorothea Sommer
General Director of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

PD Dr. Daniela Strigl
Literary scholar and critic

Prof. Dr. Martin von Koppenfels
Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft der LMU München

Marek Wiechers
Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München

Dr. Nora Zapf
Poet, translator and literary scholar