Dr Carsten Brosda

Dr Carsten Brosda is Senator for Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and President of the German Theatre Association. He is Chairman of the Cultural Forum of the Social Democrats and Co-Chairman of the Media Commission of the SPD Party Executive Committee. He was previously State Councillor for Culture, Media and Digital Affairs in Hamburg and Plenipotentiary of the Senate for Media. In Berlin, he previously worked as Head of the Communications Department of the SPD Party Executive Committee and as Deputy Head of the Management and Planning Staff at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. He studied journalism and politics at the University of Dortmund, completed a traineeship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote his doctoral thesis on "Discursive Journalism". Dr Carsten Brosda regularly publishes on socio-political topics and has published four books since 2019.