Nele Hertling | |
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![]() Hertling in 2012 | |
Born | Nele Schröder 23 February 1934 Berlin, Germany |
Education | Humboldt University Berlin |
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Spouse | Cornelius Hertling |
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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 (free theatre).[1]