William M. Drozdiak was born in 1949 and studied politics and economics in the USA and in Belgium. From 1971 to 1978 he was a professional basketball player, also in Europe. After working as a journalist for several American newspapers, writing mainly about international politics, he became head of the
William Sutcliffe was born in London in 1971. From the age of 16, after reading Ian McEwan’s novel »The Cement Garden« (1978), he began to feel that he wanted to be a writer. Sutcliffe studied English at Cambridge and penned a number of scripts for the Footlights Dramatic Club from
born in 1948, studied philosophy, German language & literature and education. As head of the Institute for Media Research at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, he looks primarily into computer games and their forms of utilisation. Together with Martin Lorber, Kaminski set up the event series »Clash of Realities« in
Wladimir Kaminer was born in 1967 in Moscow. After studying to be a sound engineer for theatre and radio, he studied dramaturgy at the Moscow Institute of Theatre. In 1990, he moved to East Berlin in what was at that point still the GDR. After being assigned a place in
Viktor Yerofeyev was born in Moscow in 1947. His father was an interpreter for Vyacheslav Molotov, among others, and was also the Soviet ambassador in France. Yerofeyev studied philology and linguistics at Lomonsov University in Moscow and received his doctorate on Dostoyevsky and French existentialism. In 1979, he collaborated on
Viola Roggenkamp was born in 1948 in Hamburg and is a German Jew. She studied psychology, philosophy and music, has travelled extensively through Asia and lived for several years in India as well as in Israel in 1989-91. In 1976 she became a freelance author for »Die Zeit« for more
Vishwajyoti Ghosh is an Indian graphic novelist and cartoonist who has published numerous cartoons and comics on social and political topics. His most ambitious and most discussed work to date was the graphic novel »Delhi Calm« (2010). In it Ghosh brings together realistic comic passages with political commentaries and fantastical
Ute Frevert was born in 1954 in Lippe and studied history and social science in Münster, Bielefeld and at the London School of Economics. In 1982, she achieved her doctorate from the University of Bielefeld, where she then submitted her habilitation thesis in modern history in 1989. Following that she
born in 1962, studied in Germany and England. She lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. Her work comprises novels (»Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt«, 2014; tr. Seven jumps from the edge of the world), short stories (»Richtig liegen«, 2011; tr. Being tracked), poems (»Subsong«, 2014) and essays (»Heimliche
studied politics, history and economics. She has worked with various European think tanks. In 2013, she founded the European Democracy Lab. The central idea of the Lab is to constitute Europa as Republic, based on the principle of political equality for all European citizens. Ulrike Guérot is further Head of
born in 1964 in Hamburg, she studied philosophy and the history of economics at FU Berlin after attending the Henri Nannen School and training as a bank clerk. She previously worked for the Körber Foundation. She has been an economics correspondent for the »taz« newspaper since 2000. She has published
Ursula Dubosarsky was born in 1961 as the third child of a literary family in Sydney. She already wanted to be an author at the age of six. At Sydney University she studied English and other languages including Old Icelandic, Latin and Greek. After graduating, she moved to Canberra, spent
