Ina Hartwig (born 11 July 1963) is a German writer, literature critic and academic lecturer. From July 2016, she has been Kulturdezernentin in Frankfurt, the city councillor responsible for culture and science.
Hartwig started her career teaching at the Free University of Berlin. In 1997, she moved to Frankfurt am Main as a journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau, where she was a features editor from 1999 to 2009.[1] She was, together with Tilman Spengler, publisher of the journal Kursbuch [de] from 2002 to 2004.[1] She was a guest professor for literary criticism in St. Louis, US (2002), Göttingen (2007/08) and at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut in Leipzig (2014/15). In 2015/16, she was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.[1]
Hartwig has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2012.[4] She was elected Kulturdezernentin (transl. city councillor responsible for culture and science) in Frankfurt on 14 July 2016.[1][5] When she took up the office she called for more experiments and alternative art forms. She also promoted collaboration with Frankfurt's sister cities, and critical public discussion of political topics. She reinstated free municipal museum visits for children under age 18.[6] She is m member of the supervisory board of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.[7]
