Christian Bräuer
Yorck Kinogruppe Managing Director
Berlin Area, Germany
Christian Bräuer, Ph.D. in Political Science and banker by professional training, is Managing Director of Yorck-Kino GmbH and Programmkino Ost GmbH which are operating art cinemas within a tight alliance of 19 movie theatres and over 40 screens in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Dresden.
He is president of the German Association of Art house cinemas AG Kino – Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater and Vice-President of the International Confederation of Art house cinemas CICAE. Furthermore he is General Secretary of Europa Cinemas – a network of about 1.100 cinemas focusing on European films.
Christian Bräuer represents the German cinema industry in the Presidium and is Member of Administrative Council as well as of Head of the Committee for European and International Affairs at German Federal Film Board (FFA).