Delegates
the world music professionals directoryBirgit Ellinghaus
- function: director
- company: alba Kultur
participation in
- WOMEX 2000
- WOMEX 2001
- WOMEX 2002
- WOMEX 2003
- WOMEX 2004
- WOMEX 2005
- WOMEX 2006
- WOMEX 2007
- WOMEX 2008
- WOMEX 2009
- WOMEX 2010
- WOMEX 2011
After graduating in media studies and education, Birgit Ellinghaus worked from 1974 for the Culture Centre in Wuppertal, Germany, and from 1983-1986 in France as
a curator for arts projects of artists from Turkey in exile.
Since 1990 she has been founding director, festival curator and music producer of alba Kultur in Cologne.
In 2009, she was appointed by the German UNESCO Commission as member of the Advisory Board in the National Committee of Culture.
