Marie von der Heydt is Managing Director of Musicboard Berlin, the city's funding institution for popular music, where she also leads the Pop-Kultur Festival and the Fête de la Musique. After various positions in the cultural sector, she led the funding division for Berlin's independent music scene at the Senate Department for Culture and worked as a political advisor on cultural and media policy at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. She studied popular music and cultural studies in Paderborn, Berlin and London.
