Gitte Zschoch

took over as ifa Secretary General 2021. In addition, she is a member of the advisory board and board of trustees of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart and an expert member of the Committee for Culture and Media (AKM) of the municipal council of the city of Stuttgart. From 2018 to 2021, she was Director of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Brussels. Previously, she worked for the Goethe-Institut in a number of different positions in Seoul, Tokyo, Johannesburg and as Deputy Head of the Communications Division at the head office in Munich, and most recently as the Founding Director of the Goethe-Institut in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gitte Zschoch studied Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and Modern Korean Literature at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. She lives and works in Stuttgart.

Last Update: 2025