Bettina Wackernagel

Bettina Wackernagel is a curator, producer, and trained music theater director specializing in contemporary music and electronic media. As a director and dramaturg for film and music theater, she has overseen numerous world premieres, including at the Salzburg Festival, the Munich Biennale, and Ars Electronica in Linz. Drawing on her practical theater experience, she initiates and designs curatorial formats that connect current developments in electronic music and sound art with social discourses. Her work focuses on the female pioneers of electronic music as well as the promotion of contemporary FLINTA* perspectives in music, sound art, and performance.

In 2014, she founded the Heroines of Sound festival, which she has led as artistic director ever since. With its cross-genre program, the internationally recognized festival is regarded as a key driving force in the experimental music and sound art scene and as a platform for FLINTA* artists. In addition, Wackernagel designs and leads lectures, workshops, and symposia on electronic music, its historical female pioneers, and contemporary curatorial practice at universities and colleges in Germany and abroad. She serves on national and international juries. Her artistic and curatorial work has been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships.