Between 1992 and 1995, Vogt developed the overall blueprint for the Free State of Saxony’s law on cultural areas,[1] and contributed to its acceptance and implementation.

In 2012, Vogt was made honorary professor of the University of Pécs[2] and in 2014 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to German-Polish cooperation.

He is a grandson of Theodor Spira (1881-1961),[4] an anglicist in Königsberg, who was expelled from the university by the National Socialists on account of his political and religious beliefs and worked after the War in the Hessian government for reconciliation with Israel.

He collaborated with Luigi Nono,[8] Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen in the world premieres of Prometeo, Un Re in Ascolto and Samstag aus Licht.

In November 1995, he was offered a post in the State Ministry of Science and Art by the Saxon premier, Kurt Biedenkopf, but declined.

It calls for individuals combining economic flair, a grasp of social legislation, familiarity with an increasingly diverse cultural scene, and an uncompromising commitment to meticulous organization.

He takes great interest in strengthening democratic potentials, not least beyond the metropolitan cities[15] into the German and European peripheries,[16] and in methodological aspects of cultural policy studies.

[17] In 2016, he presented a research study on the cultural implications of migration: Ankommen in der deutschen Lebenswelt (Arrival in the German World).

In 2002-2009 the latter researched into the fundamental issues of social cohesion in Europe under the common patronage of the German, Polish and Czech Foreign Ministers.

Vogt has also studied the principal-agent potentials for strengthening regional public spirit in variously-sized cities, e.g. in large-sized Erlangen,[22] in the medium-sized towns of Landsberg am Lech[23] and Pforzheim,[24] in small-sized Altötting[25] and in rural communities such as Gundelsheim near Bamberg.

[34] In the run-up to a media public discussion between the Africa Representative and the Association of Professors in African Languages[35] on 13 February 2019,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42] the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development asked Vogt for an assessment of the letter of 15 November 2018, addressed personally to the Federal Minister with numerous word mistakes and in which the Association had called for Nooke to be dismissed.

In a concluding note Vogt summed up (following Thomas Bauer: Die Vereindeutigung der Welt, 2018): "The 'causa' Nooke is exemplary for post-factual hypability, as it is called in New German.

This means testing how - in a right-left shortening tunnel and detached from the factual situation - in our beautiful and perhaps precisely for this reason so often agitated country attention can be hedged.