Marc Calmbach is our creative maverick and trailblazer: he established the SINUS youth research, built up the Berlin office and co-conceived SINUS-Akademie.
Sociology has come up with the concept of ‘patchwork identity’ for people like Marc Calmbach. Via an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk, a one-year stay in South America incl. youth social work, a job as a forklift driver, a return to school to gain his university entrance qualification, an engagement with the music channel Viva2, hundreds of gigs worldwide as a musician and DJ, a degree in Media Economics and a doctorate in cultural sociology, he (finally) found his way to SINUS-Institut in 2008, where he has been leading the Research & Consulting department since 2010 with Dr. Silke Borgstedt. He has been Managing Director at SINUS since 2021.
His main areas of work are: youth, religion, (political) education and migration. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on youth topics and has published numerous specialist books and articles with renowned publishing houses.
In his spare time, he likes to add to his substantial record collection, still makes music and travels the globe as a street photographer. He is “partner in crime” of our office dog Milo.
