Sabine Hentzsch, born in 1959 in Bochum, studied sociology and worked as a sociologist till 1989, when she started to work with the Goethe-Institut. After working for the Goethe-Institut in Germany, she received postings abroad as follows: 1995-2000 Director of the Goethe-Institut Accra/Ghana; 2000-2004 Director of the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam/Netherlands. She was awarded the silver Erasmus-needle of the city of Rotterdam for her contributions to German-Dutch cultural exchange. Since September 2004 she is director of the Goethe-Institut Bukarest. She is co-curator (with Marius Babias) of the project Spaţiul Public Bucureşti | Public Art Bucharest 2007.