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

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)

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