Doerte Spengler-Ahrens

Chairwoman , Jung von Matt

Doerte studied Visual Communications and started her career as an Art Director before switching to copywriting. After working in several agencies, she went to Jung von Matt where she became a Creative Director after only three years. In 2000, she founded her own company MARIA- the first "Frauenagentur"- a special Agency for female Brands and Target Groups- only femal creatives. 

Doerte returned 2002 to Jung von Matt to set the agency JvM/Spree in Berlin Office with two partners and became a partner and share holder. After that, she launched the first international branch called Jung von Matt/9 and several other Jung von Matt companies (JvM/Pulse, JvM/Fleet, JvM/Elbe) working for all big JvM clients including BMW, BVG, Mercedes-Benz, Sparkasse, EON, NETTO, NIVEA, Sixt, Zalando, etc. In November 2016, she founded Jung von Matt/SAGA -which stands for Spengler-Ahrens-Giest-Agency- with Managing Partner Stephan Giest. 

Doerte is one the most awarded female German creatives, long term Committee Chairwoman and President of the Art Director's Club (ADC), curator of the ADC Festival and Congress Hamburg, Advisory Board Member of the D&AD and New York Festival, as well as a juror in all the communication industry's most important international award juries every year (LIA, Clio, One Show, Cannes, ADC*E etc.). 

She was awarded Germany's Agency Head of the Year 2018, served 2019 besides other juries as Chairwoman and Jury President of the ADC*E Festival. Doerte has won over 600 awards in her career including several Grand Prixs.