Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board controls and determines the Board activities
Sören Birke
Chairman, Kesselhaus & Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei
Sören Birke has been managing director of Consense Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Kultur GmbH with the Kesselhaus and Maschinenhaus in Kulturbrauerei Berlin since 2002. As chairman of the supervisory board of the Berlin Music Commission and also as a musician and book author, Birke actively promotes Berlin’s club and music scene. He co-initiated the MUSIC 2020 BERLIN campaign and the MUSIC BOARD BERLIN. He also is co-founder of “CIB – Creative Industries Berlin e.V.“, board member of Pfefferwerk e.V., as well as organizer of the festival “Zungenschlag” at the “Podewil – Center for Contemporary Art” in Berlin.
Flo Blokesch
BENDITentertainment
Flo Blokesch, born and raised in Prenzlauer Berg at the Wasserturm, is a true child of the city. Music in Berlin always played a very big role in his life. Therefore, since 2009, this passion turned into a profession, which resulted in his current role as a self-employed music agent and artist manager. His focus is on the digital keyboard of the entertainment industry; in short, the development and alignment of opportunities that will open up for musicians in 2020. His clients primarily include do-it-yourself musicians, record labels, publishers & distributors. In turn, his specialty is YouTube, which lets him manage many prominent to semi-prominent channels.
Administratively, Flo is at home in the Hamburg home port of BENDITentertainment. This management agency with a focus on music for film and TV, its own publishing house and a range of management services for various artists led Flo to the Berlin Music Commission, the Prize for Pop Culture, the Interessenverband Musikmanager und Consultants e.V. (IMUC), as well as SUISA, GEMA & GVL.
Flo Blokesch ran for the supervisory board to ensure that the interests of responsible digital natives are represented.
Christel Herkenrath
Active in culture since 1985. From 1985 to 1992 as shareholder of STADT-Revue Verlag in Cologne.
Has lived in Berlin since 1992 and was Managing Director of Berlin Connection Medien GmbH and UMM GmbH (national advertising agency for Germany’s city magazines) from 1993 to 2007. From 1999 to 2008, she was also media planner for the legendary cigarette brand NIL.
Since 2004 she has been working as a consultant and controller mainly in the field of theater at BAR JEDER VERNUNFT and TIPI im Kanzleramt.
And since November 2020, she has been one of the spokespersons for the events industry section of the BMC.
Since October 2022 on the supervisory board of the Berlin Music Commission.
Jeannine Koch
Born in Berlin , Jeannine Koch has been Director of republica GmbH in Berlin since January 2018. Prior to that, she headed the Marketing & Communications Department of the International Garden Exhibition 2017 in Berlin for six years. The graduate media consultant studied, among others, “International Communications” in Sydney-Australia and “English/American Studies & Modern German Philology” in Berlin.
She has already been able to live out her passion for music in many different ways; whether as music editor of various TV and print magazines, as singer of various bands and choirs, as developer of musical media formats and as idea and impulse generator for artist bookings as part of her professional activities. In 2019, she was also a jury member of the Listen to Berlin: Awards.
For ten years now, she has been designing and leading realignments of companies in extensive transformation processes. She is also a trained systemic business coach.
More info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanninekoch/
Nicole Wuttke
Nicole Wuttke has more than 15 years of experience in the fields of production, engineering and consulting and has played a central role in various projects in the music, political and cultural sectors. She currently heads the Sustainable Event Management and Conception departments at mediapool Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH.
Nicole is a member of the supervisory board and spokesperson of the ak:n of the Berlin Music Commission as well as a lecturer for theater and event management at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences.
Under her leadership, mediapool received DIN ISO 20121 certification in January 2021, March 2022 and January 2024. This positioned the company as a national pioneer in the field of sustainable event management and as a trailblazer for the implementation of sustainable management and production systems in the event industry. Nicole Wuttke takes over the management of mediapool from Petra Knoth in November 2024.