Westdeutsch geprägte Museumsleitung und kuratorische Praxis in den Kunstmuseen der neuen Bundesländer nach 1990 : Erfolg und Aporie am Beispiel der Kunsthalle Rostock des Staatlichen Museums Schwerin und der Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Museum Kunsthalle Kulturpolitik Gesellschaft Kunst Direktor Rostock Schwerin Chemnitz Transformationsprozess personeller Nachwendedekade transformational process HR Loads of articles essays monographs and scientific papers were written over the past 25 years concerning the processes and conflicts of the time after the former German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany became united again in 1989 1990. This dissertation pays attention to a couple of aspects which might not fit togehter at first glance. It explores the interplay of art society cultural politic and the HR transformational process which came up after 1990 in East Germany. This publication combines the above mentioned aspects and hereby reveals to a topic which is quite unedited to date: It is about the HR transformational process of leading staff and directors in art museums in East Germany after 1990. Three museums were chosen for the dissertation: Kunsthalle Rostock Staatliches Museum Schwerin Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.