Rita Baus ran the Pantheon Theatre in Bonn for many years as managing partner and artistic director. She was then responsible for the entertainment division at Studio Hamburg. She then took over as artistic director of the Admiralspalast theatre in Berlin. She is the idea generator and project manager of the »Quatsch keine Oper!« series at the Bonn Opera, as well as of »Beethoven Moves!«, an international project that she realised with Colombian young people and the Beethoven Orchester Bonn for the Don Bosco Mission Bonn in Medellín. An exhibition on »Beethoven Moves!« was shown at the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn in 2021, as well as the exhibition »Drei Fragen: Glück« (»Three Questions: Happiness«) by Judith Döker, which she curated. She has also realised other international projects for Don Bosco. In addition to her work as a cultural manager, she has worked for many years as a systemic coach and teaching coach.