Malte Boecker

Malte Boecker was born in New York in 1970. In the 1990s he studied law and musicology. From 1997 to 2001, he was responsible for the legal department of the European Capital of Culture "Weimar 1999" and for the founding of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Arab and Israeli musicians, initiated by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said.

From 2002 to 2012, he was a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's extended leadership circle for the International Dialogue of Cultures.

Since May 2012, Malte Boecker has been Director and Executive Director of the Beethoven-Haus. From 2017 to 2021, he also held an executive position at the BTHVN2020 Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH, first as chairman of the supervisory board, and from May 2019 as artistic director.