The German Lost Art Foundation mourns the death of Freya Paschen (1973 – 2021)

Ms Paschen had served as press of­fi­cer and head of the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Pub­lic Re­la­tions De­part­ment since mid-2016. She suc­cess­ful­ly es­tab­lished and ex­pand­ed the me­dia work of the foun­da­tion, which was found­ed in 2015. A high­light of her work was the in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence on the 20th an­niver­sary of the "Wash­ing­ton Prin­ci­ples" in Berlin at the end of 2018, which Freya Paschen con­ceived, or­ga­nized, ac­com­pa­nied and fol­lowed up with tire­less com­mit­ment and a wealth of ideas.
With her great joie de vivre, her cheer­ful­ness and her op­ti­mism, Freya Paschen had a pos­i­tive in­flu­ence on the co­op­er­a­tion in the Foun­da­tion. The fact that she cared deeply about to­geth­er­ness was ev­i­dent, for ex­am­ple, in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­ter team for the Magde­burg com­pa­ny re­lay race, where she was able to con­tribute her great pas­sion for run­ning.

Freya Paschen had stud­ied in Bonn and St. Louis, Mis­souri, and then worked for sev­er­al the­aters, in­clud­ing as an as­sis­tant di­rec­tor and dra­maturg. Along the way, she came to Magde­burg in 2009, where she was re­spon­si­ble for mar­ket­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tions at The­ater Magde­burg. From 2014 to 2016, she was head of pub­lic re­la­tions and mu­se­um ed­u­ca­tion at Magde­burg's mu­se­ums.

To­geth­er with her hus­band, her friends and ev­ery­one who knew and ap­pre­ci­at­ed her, we mourn the loss of Freya Paschen. We will miss her very much and will al­ways re­mem­ber her.
Magde­burg, May 2021
Ex­ec­u­tive Board and staff of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion