Carsten Brosda

Born in 1974 in Gelsenkirchen, married, two children.
• Newspaper traineeship with the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen
• Journalism and political science studies at the University of Dortmund; PhD on “discursive journalism” in Dortmund University’s faculty of cultural studies
• 2000 – 2005: press officer and editor, later speechwriter and policy officer for the SPD party executive
• 2005 – 2009: head of the speeches, text and analysis unit at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• 2008 – 2009: deputy head of the management and planning staff at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• 2010 – 2011: head of the SPD party executive’s communication department
• June 2011 – February 2016: head of the media office in Hamburg’s Senate Chancellery, from 2013 additionally the Senate’s authorised media representative
• March 2016 – January 2017: State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture; State Secretary in the Senate Chancellery for the media and digitisation sectors
• Minister of Culture and Media and Head of the Ministry since February 2017
• Co-Chairperson of the Commission for Media and Network Politics of the SPD Party Executive Committee since July 2018
• Chairman of the culture forum of the social democracy since November 2019
• President of the German Theatre and Orchestra Association “Deutscher Bühnenverein” since November 2020