Björn Döring

Björn Döring has been working as a cultural manager, curator, journalist and PR consultant in Berlin for 30 years. A daringly designed application led to a multi-year engagement as a freelance journalist for Rolling Stone, Musikexpress, Intro Musikmagazin, Berliner Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, taz and RBB Multikulti. The central organisation of the Fête de la Musique was his entry into the world of events. This was followed by the first festival of his own: popdeurope at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, which later moved to the Arena Berlin. There, as in the newly opened Admiralspalast, he designed the music programme and organised the public viewing event popkick.2006 on behalf of the Arena Berlin, which attracted a quarter of a million people to Treptower Park. After that, Björn Döring ran Berlin Music Week for three years before founding the specialist trade fair for events in January 2015.

Björn continues to be involved as chairman of the board of the Obersee & Orankesee development association and, since 2020, as chairman of the board of the association for the promotion of pop culture.