{"id":36166,"date":"2026-08-25T20:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/?p=36166"},"modified":"2026-08-25T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:09:45","slug":"murnau-foundation-michael-dienes-appointed-as-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/murnau-stiftung-michael-dienes-wird-neuer-vorstand\/","title":{"rendered":"Murnau Foundation: Michael Dienes appointed as new Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Change of leadership at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation: Michael Dienes will take up the post of Chair of the Board on 1 November 2026. He succeeds Christiane von Wahlert, who is retiring at the end of the year.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Michael Dienes is to become the new Executive Director of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation on 1 November 2026. He will take over from Christiane von Wahlert, who has headed the foundation since 2019 and is due to retire at the end of 2026.<\/p>

After working for various management consultancies, Dienes spent more than 20 years at the post-production company Omnimago, most recently as managing director. Thanks to his long-standing collaboration with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, he is already familiar with its remit and areas of work.<\/p>

\u201eI am very familiar with the Murnau Foundation and its remit thanks to many years of close collaboration,\u201c explains Dienes regarding his new role. He describes taking up the post as an honour and a pleasure, and announces that he will continue the work of Christiane von Wahlert.<\/p>

Von Wahlert had held the position of chair since 2019. With regard to her successor, she emphasises that the foundation\u2019s significant film collections and the dedicated team at Dienes are \u201ein good hands\u201c.<\/p>

The Foundation\u2019s Board of Trustees also welcomes the appointment. Its chairman, Helmut Po\u00dfmann, highlights in particular Dienes\u2019s experience, personality and passion for film. He is convinced that Dienes will successfully carry on the Foundation\u2019s important work whilst also setting new priorities.<\/p>

With this change in leadership, the next phase in the work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation \u2013 which is dedicated to the preservation, restoration and promotion of Germany\u2019s film heritage \u2013 will begin on 1 November.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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To the press release<\/a><\/h3>

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F\u00fchrungswechsel bei der Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung: Michael Dienes \u00fcbernimmt zum 1. November 2026 den Vorstandsposten. Er folgt auf Christiane von Wahlert, die Ende des Jahres in den Ruhestand geht. Michael Dienes wird…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-minimal.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fuehrungswechsel","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36171,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36166\/revisions\/36171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}