Isabel Hölzl

Isabel Hölzl studied classical and contemporary dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and at the Pontificia Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. She worked as a cultural manager for international productions for various institutions in São Paulo, before she began working at the cultural department of the Goethe-Institut São Paulo in 2011, where she conducted dance and theatre productions and developed programs on sustainability and on the "Global South".  Afterwards she worked as a coordinator for dance in the department of theatre and dance at the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut in Munich. In August  2017 she became the head of the Goethe-Institut Finland but left the position in mid-2022 and is currently serving as the Director of the Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro.