Nele Hertling

Nele Hertling
Hertling in 2012
Born	Nele Schröder (1934-02-23) 23 February 1934 (age 90) Berlin, Germany
Education	Humboldt University Berlin
Occupations	Culture administrator Theatre manager
Organizations	Academy of Arts, Berlin Hebbel Theatre Goethe-Institut Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Spouse	Cornelius Hertling
Awards	Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Legion of Honour

Nele Hertling née Schröder (born 23 February 1934) is a German theatre manager and promoter of innovative culture. Working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, from 1962, she has founded regular programs of innovative art in the city, such as Pantomime-Musik-Tanz-Theater in 1970 and the Tanz im August festival in 1988. She managed the program for Berlin as the European City of Culture that year. Hertling is considered the grande dame of the established German Freies Theater [de] (free theatre).^[1]