Nina Power is a senior lecturer on Philosophy at Roehampton University in London. Her main areas of interest are modern French and German philosophy, philosophies and politics of the subject, as well as feminism, queer theory, cinema and politics and new media. She writes articles about philosophy, art and politics
Nicoleta Esinencu was born in 1978 in the Moldavian capital of Chişinău. She studied dramatic writing at the national Academy of Arts. In 2001, together with Mihai Fusu and Dumitru Crudu, she wrote the play »A şaptea cafanã« (tr: The Seventh Coffee House) which was staged in Moldova, Romania, and
The Kenyan writer and scholar of culture, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, was born in 1938. He is the son of a traditional Kikuyu farming family in Kamiriithu, Limuru. In 1952, the independence struggle against British colonial rule – the Mau Mau War – began. From 1959 to 1964 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Moritz Rinke, born in 1967 in Worpswede, studied applied theater studies in Giessen. He worked for the »Tagesspiegel« as a columnist and reporter from 1994 to 1996. He was twice awarded the Axel Springer Prize and a collection of his texts was published in 2001 as »Der Blauwal im Kirschgarten«
Mieze Medusa was born in 1975, and her activities include poetry slamming, rapping, writing and publishing. She has organized the monthly Poetry Slams textstrom in Vienna for eight years, and she is one of the initiators of Ö-Slam, the Austrian Poetry Slam Championship. Mieze Medusa presents her books on the
Michael Day is a Canadian-born sinologist (currently a UK citizen). He studied at the University of British Columbia, spent many years in China, and is considered an expert for Chinese avant-garde poetry. He helped Liao Yiwu to record his poem »Massacre« on tape. Day has worked with the Digital Archive
born in 1949, studied in Frankfurt and Berlin and worked for O. M. Ungers until he became self-employed in 1986. He has participated in many competitions with designs characterized by Rationalism and Minimalism and he has built several libraries, for example the Folkwang Library in Essen. His most important projects
Matthew Sweeney was born in County Donegal, Ireland in 1952. He moved to London in 1973 to study at the North London Polytechnic, where he focused intensively on German Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. From 1977 to 1978 he studied in Freiburg. His first volume of poems, »A Dream of
Mathias Matussek was born in Münster in 1954, he studied at the Free University Berlin and the German Academy for Journalists in Munich. He was a Special Correspondent in East Berlin and worked in various departments of the German weekly »Spiegel«, most recently for the video blog »Matusseks Kulturtip«. Matussek
Martin Kieren was born in 1954, studied Philosophy, Art History and Architecture. He has been a scientific assistant, curator and editor of »Werk und Zeit«, an author of radio programmes on architecture, town planning and art, and finally a Professor for Architectural History and Theory. His works deal with Hannes
Markus Metz was born in Oberstdorf in 1958 and studied Publishing, Politics and Drama Theory at the FU Berlin. He is an independent journalist and author. Together with Georg Seeßlen he has written four books so far, three of which appeared in 2012. Metz and Seeßlen coined the term »Blödmaschinen«
Mark Z. Danielewski wurde 1966 als Sohn des polnischen Avantgarde-Filmregisseurs Tad Danielewski in New York City geboren. Er studierte Literatur an der renommierten Yale University und besuchte die Filmhochschule der University of Southern California in L.A., arbeitete als Lektor im Verlagswesen und war an einer Dokumentation über Jacques Derrida beteiligt.
