Staff

Elżbieta Kosek

Acting Executive Director
Educational Programmes Specialist
Inclusion Section Manager

Email: kosek [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0)30 / 53 89 31 63 65
Languages: German, Polish, English
Office days: Tuesday to Friday

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Elżbieta Kosek studied Economy in Berlin and Media Pedagogy in Rostock. From 2007 to 2012 she worked as a Programme Manager in the International Youth Center in Krzyżowa. In January 2013 she started her work for the Kreisau-Initiative.

Sofie Koscholke

Educational Programmes Specialist in the Inclusion and Social-ecological transformation sections (deputy)

Email: koscholke[at]kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0) 156 78 85 65 07
Languages: German, English, Polish, French
Office days: Monday to Thursday

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Sofie Koscholke studied European media culture in Weimar, Germany, and Lyon, France, as well as intercultural communication in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. From 2015 to 2018, she was an educational programmes specialist in the International Youth Meeting Centre in Krzyżowa, Poland, and since September 2022 has been working for the Kreisau-Initiative again in the focal areas of Inclusion and social-ecological transformation.

Elisabeth Zimmermann (on maternity leave till April 2023)

Educational Programmes Specialist
Social-Ecological Transformation Section Manager

Email: kremer [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0)30 / 53 89 31 63 65
Languages: German, English, French
 

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Elisabeth Kremer studied German-French studies and European Studies in Germany, France and Denmark. She is a certified teamer of intercultural youth meetings and group-interpreter within the German-French Youth Cooperation. Since May 2018, she has been working as a programme manager in the Kreisau-Initiative.

Carolin Wenzel

Educational Programmes Specialist
Contemporary History & Human Rights Section Manager

Email: wenzel [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0) 156 78 85 65 02
Languages: German, English, Polish
Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Friday

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Carolin Wenzel has studied Integrated European Studies as well as Culture and History of Central and Eastern Europe in Bremen, Kraków and Frankfurt (Oder). She's been working for the Kreisau-Initiative since March 2011.

Kerim Somun

Educational Programmes Specialist in the Contemporary History & Human Rights Section

Email: somun [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0)30 / 53 89 31 63 63
Languages: German, English, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian
Office days: Monday to Friday

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Kerim Somun he has been working for the Kreisau-Initiative since February 2017. His main focus is the project Model International Criminal Court (MICC). He studied Public Administration at the University of Sarajevo and wrote his bachelor thesis on including youth in decision-making processes. His interests focus mainly on human rights, peace building, transitional justice and youth leadership.

Alla Bahlei

Educational Programmes Coordinator in the Inclusion section

Email: bahlei [at] kreisau.de
Phone : +49 (0)30 / 53 89 31 63 65
Languages: German, English, Ukrainian, Polish
Office days: Wednesday and Thursday (part-time)

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Alla Bahlei studied politics in Chernivtsi (Ukraine), Słupsk (Poland), Brno (Czech Republic) and Athens (Greece). Now she is studying Middle- and East European culture and history in Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany. Since December 2022, she has been working as a project coordinator in the Kreisau-Initiative.

Beate Kindler

Financial Specialist

Email: kindler [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0) 156 78 85 65 05
Languages: German, English
Office days: Tuesday to Friday

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Beate Kindler is a banker by vocation. She graduated from a part-time business management studies at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. She has been working for the Kreisau-Initiative since September 2014.

Malwina Szczypta

Public Relations Officer

Email: szczypta [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0) 156 78 85 65 04
Languages: German, Polish, English, Spanish
Office days: Monday to Thursday (part-time)

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Malwina Szczypta studied applied linguistics and intercultural communication in Poznan, Poland, Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She joined the Kreisau-Initiative in August 2018.

Elmira Dmitrieva

Volunteer

Email: dmitrieva [at] kreisau.de
Phone: +49 (0)30 / 53 89 38 75 93
Languages: German, Russian, English
Office days: Monday to Friday

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Elmira Dmitrieva studied history and EU politics in St. Petersburg, Russia. She joined Kreisau-Initiative in September 2022.

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c/o Allianz AG
Merlitzstraße 9
12489 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)30 / 53 89 31 63 64

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