Barbara Basting new Head of Culture at Radio DRS 2

Art critic Barbara Basting is taking over as head of the «Culture» editorial department at Radio DRS 2. Among other things, she will be responsible for the regular programs «Reflexe» and «52 Best Books.» She will thus succeed Peter Burri in January 2009.

Art critic Barbara Basting takes over as head of the specialist editorial department "Culture" at Radio DRS 2, where she is responsible for the structure programs "Reflexe" and "52 Best Books," among others. Thus, in January 2009, she replaces Peter Burri, who is taking the opportunity of early retirement and will continue to work as a journalist.
Basting, who studied Romance languages and German, worked for ten years as an editor at the cultural magazine Du. After an interlude as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Weltwoche and the Tagesanzeiger in the areas of art, new media and literature, Barbara Basting most recently worked as a drawing editor in the culture department of the Tagesanzeiger.

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