For many people in the city it is clear: Frankfurt needs a fresh start. And that's exactly what Maja Wolff wants to bring. The entrepreneur and cultural activist, who will be known to many as the initiator of the Green Sauce Festival, will run for the office of Mayor of the City of Frankfurt in the next election - regardless of whether this is in a few months' time or not until 2024. The Frankfurt native is non-partisan.
Maja Wolff has been involved in various functions in and for Frankfurt for many years. She is an artist and entrepreneur and since 2009 managing director of the Grüne Soße Festival GmbH. As organizer and host, she and her partner Torsten Müller have helped the annual festival to achieve nationwide appeal. As chairwoman of the board of the cultural association Art-Q e.V., she has been implementing social cultural projects in Frankfurt since 2011, which, among other things, offers socially disadvantaged people a stage. Since 2019, Maja Wolff has been a member of the General Assembly of the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
"Frankfurt is a city of many facets and this diversity is its strength and potential. The city faces major social, environmental and economic challenges that require cross-party cooperation in city politics and clear, disinterested leadership," says Maja Wolff. "It is important to direct as mayor with the awareness that these challenges can only be met together. With the deselection process on November 6, the citizens of the city decide whether they want to initiate a necessary change."
After training as a medical assistant, Maja Wolff trained as an actress. From 1989 to 1994 followed engagements with a children's touring theater, before she worked as a freelance cabaret artist. In addition to studying social work (diploma 2004) at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt and in-service training as a drama and theater therapist (2004 to 2006 at the German Society for Theater Therapy in Freiburg), she obtained her Heilpraktiker (non-medical practitioner) degree in psychotherapy in 2006. In 2011 followed the degree as a systemic therapist.
