born in 1968, is a writer and journalist. She has written 16 books, including four novels, four collections of poetry, short stories, essays, children’s books, and two theater plays. She has received numerous foreign scholarships and was, among others, a guest at the Villa Decius in Krakow, a Lenka-Reinerova-Stipendium grant
born in Karlsruhe in 1980, studied Recent German Literature and Romance Studies at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and completed her doctoral thesis on the subject of »relationship between literature and ethics in the epical work of Peter Handke«. She conducts research on German literature of the 20th/21st century, on ethics
Susanne Heinrich was born in Leipzig in 1985, she studied at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig and has published numerous short stories in various anthologies, magazines and her own publications, followed in 2007 and 2009 by two novels. She has received various awards (Ingeborg Bachmann competition, residencies at
is a German oceanographer. Schmidtko is member of the Excellence Cluster »The Future Ocean« at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Oceanography in Kiel. The Execellence Cluster deals, among others, with sustainable use and global change of the oceans like warming and the connected reduction of oceanic oxygen content.
studied in Oxford and at the MIT in Boston. The economist was the chairman of the administrative board of one of the largest private banks in the world, a minister under David Cameron and a member of the board of the British Museum. Today, Lord Green is a member of
Stefan Hertmans was born in Ghent in 1951. As a professor and director of studies at the University College in Ghent, he focused on art criticism, continental philosophy, hermeneutics and agogics (till 2010). In 2013, he was Visiting Professor at the University in Gent. He has given talks and lectures
Stefan Zweifel was born in 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland. After studying philosophy, comparative literature, and Egyptology, he wrote his dissertation, working with Michael Pfister, on Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the French doctor and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The two also collaborated on
studied English and German literature as well as political science in Erlangen. She wrote articles on independent games for superlevel.de and is an editor for the games culture bookazine »WASD«. She lives, plays and works in Berlin.
taught, among others, in Mainz, Saarbrücken and Glasgow, used to be Chair of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is now professor at the chair of military history / cultural history of violence at the university of Potsdam.
Shumona Sinha, born in Calcutta in 1973, grew up in a family of academics and literary enthusiasts. She began writing while still in her teens and was named Best Young Poet in Bengal in 1990. In 2001, she moved to Paris to study literature at the Sorbonne, and also worked
The Columbian author and journalist Sergio Álvarez was born in 1965 in Bogotá. He studied philosophy, lived for several years in Colombia’s Orinoco lowlands, the Llanos Orientales, then worked in the advertising, television and cinema industry and eventually began to write. In 2000 Álvarez published »Mapaná«, a book for adolescents
Sebastian Meschenmoser was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1980 and began studying at the Akademie für bildende Künste in Mainz in 2001. After visiting the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art in Dijon for half a year, he transfered to Anne Berning‘s master class in Mainz in 2006 and completed his
