Our Team

Dr. phil. Christoph Klütsch

Dr. phil. Christoph Klütsch

Position President

Christoph is a German art historian and philosopher, with 15 years of teaching experience at German and US-American Universities. His special interest is contemporary art, critical theory as well as the history of Provence. He worked as concept developer on many exhibitions and multimedia publications and he speaks regularly at conferences all around the world. From 2015-2018 he was the academic chair of SCAD Lacoste until he founded the Provence academy. He lives in Saignon.

Daniel Plettenberg

Daniel Plettenberg

Co-President / Docent

His perfume company AtelierPMP he
 created award winning scents. He 
founded the Olfactory institute this year
 to consult on product and scent innovations. Furthermore, Daniel is a political
 drag performer and LGBTIQ* activist. 
In his ‘philosophy lectures in drag 
he tries to challenge perspectives
 and preconceptions.

Corinne Detroyat

Corinne Detroyat

Docent

Founder of Ateliers Provence Paris, Corinne Détroyat is a landscape architect. Living in Saignon in the Vaucluse and intoxicated by gardening since childhood. She Graduate of the National School of Landscape in Versailles (ENSP)

Peter Rohan

Peter Rohan

Docent

Studied Philospophy as well as French
 language, culture and history. He current
ly lives and works as an autonomous
 philosopher in Bremen and Strasbourg.

Ernst Guenther Herrmann

Ernst Guenther Herrmann

Docent

Studied architecture and urbanism at Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin. He taught at the universities of Stuttgart and Berkley. Since 1979 he worked in urbanism and landscape-architecture internationally.

Martin Koplin

Martin Koplin

Docent

Director of the M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture on Bremen. He realises creative research projects between art, culture, and technology, funded by the European Commission and the German Federal Government.

Jan Kopp

Jan Kopp

Composer / Docent

Studied German literature and musicology at University of Heidelberg and 
composition with Wolfgang Rihm and
 Helmut Lachenmann. He is interested 
in participative approaches in contem
porary Avantgarde music. He lives as
 freelance composer, author and docent in Stuttgart.