Sylvia Franz...
...studied law at the University of Passau, the Universidade Católica in Lisbon and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. She completed her legal clerkship at the Munich Higher Regional Court until 2016, after which she worked as a lawyer at a Munich commercial law firm until 2019.
Franz then moved to the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, where she worked in various departments with different focuses over the years: including in the area of monument protection and preservation, the Munich Concert Hall, the Academy of Fine Arts (with which HFF Munich regularly organizes partner events), music preservation and the promotion of young talent in music. During the pandemic, Sylvia Franz was also a member of the Corona coordination group for almost three years. In the field of science, she supervised the German Centers for Health Research, among others.