Henrike Schmidt

Henrike Schmidt, born in Lüneburg in 1994, is deputy head of Young Program, where she is also responsible for school communication and production. She studied Cultural Studies with a focus on literature as well as Business Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Applied Literary Studies – Contemporary Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. In Lüneburg, she worked as a student assistant at the Institute of English Studies as well as at the Institute for Historical Studies and Literary Cultures. She worked in publishing after moving to Berlin and subsequently started her master’s degree. In 2022, she joined the ilb as deputy head of Young Program.