The GEMA management board and supervisory board have appointed Maren Ruhfus to the position of director of political communication effective Jan. 1, 2009.
Since February 2007 she has been head of the newly created GEMA coordination office in Berlin and Brussels.
The German collecting society's management board chairman Dr. Harald Heker said in a statement: "In order to represent the interests of the composers, songwriters and music publishers even more successfully in the future we intend to intensify our dialogue with the political sector. By establishing this directorship we have positioned ourselves excellently for this."