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Antje Scheidler is the Program Director for Democracy at the Robert Bosch Foundation. Antje has been affiliated with Humanity in Action since 2001, when she became Program Director of the, then new, German Fellowship Program. Antje was born in East Germany and has lived for almost her entire life in Berlin, where she experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a teenager. Antje studied English and American Studies and Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Toronto, and became very interested in migration related issues and matters of social cohesion and inclusion. She worked as a researcher at Humboldt University’s Department of Demography from 2000-2007 and as editor-in-chief of the newsletter “Migration and Population” from 2000-2011.
Until 2023, Antje was the National Director of Humanity in Action Germany, the International Director of European Programs, and the Co/Director of the Landecker Democracy Fellowship. Antje also worked as the producer for two of Humanity in Action’s animated short films on the Shoah and resistance: Two Trees in Jerusalem and My Father’s War. She now serves on the board of Humanity in Action Germany.
Updated July 2024