Philippe de Pierpont was born in 1955 in Brussels. After studying art history and archaeology and taking courses in theater, film, and video, he dedicated himself to a diverse spectrum of activities: He is a documentary filmmaker and film director, a screenwriter, and a comic book author. In the 1990s,
born in 1975 in Hanover, studied philosophy and linguistics in Berlin, Berkeley, New York, and Oxford. Until 2018, he was junior professor for theoretical philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. In 2015, he published »Der Untergrund des Denkens« (tr: The Foundations of Thought. A Philosophy of the Unconscious), in which
Peter Wawerzinek was born in 1954 in Rostock. Abandoned by his parents, who fled to the West, he grew up in children’s homes on the Baltic Sea coast and was later adopted by two married teachers. After training to be a textile designer and serving in the military, in the
born in 1985 in Braunau am Inn, studied German philology in Vienna. Research associate at STUBE in Vienna. Member of the editorial team of »1001 Buch«. His research focuses on picture books, comics, and gender theories. He is a first-time guest of the ilb and will speak about »Rebellious Pictures.
Patrick Kingsley, born 1989, is an international correspondent for The New York Times, based in Berlin. He previously covered migration and the Middle East for The Guardian. He was named Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards, and is the author of two books: »How
Olivier Guez, born in Strasbourg in 1974, is a French writer. He graduated from Sciences Po Strasbourg and earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and the Collège dʼEurope in Bruges. As a journalist, he has written for »Le Monde«, »Le Point«, »FAZ«, »New York Times«, and
born in 1984, lives as a filmmaker and essayist in Cairo. He writes for »The Guardian«, »The London Review of Books«, and »Mada Masr«, an Egyptian independent online newspaper, and is co-founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as the non-profit media collective Mosireen in Cairo. His début
born in Sanderbusch in 1955, earned a degree in Slavic Studies and East European History before founding the Ost-West-Büro (OWB) for Eastern European consultation and translation in Berlin. He earned his doctorate in 1995 and worked as an interpreter and translator for the governing mayor of Berlin, where he has
Nuno Júdice was born in 1949 in Mexilhoeira Grande in Algarve, Portugal. He studied Romance languages and literature and completed his doctorate in medieval studies at the Faculty for Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he taught French and Portuguese literature as an associate professor
Norman Ohler was born in Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, in 1970. After graduating from the renowned Hamburg School of Journalism, he wrote for »Der Spiegel« and »Stern«. »Geo« sent him to South Africa for a special issue on the country’s tumultuous transition from apartheid to democracy. In 1993 Ohler moved to New
born 1983 in Tbilisi, she is a freelance director and writer. During her studies from 1998 to 2003, she directed the German-Georgian ensemble »Fliedertheater«. She writes plays and prose pieces in German, including »Der Cousin und Bekina« (tr: »The Cousin and Bekina«), »Georgia / Liv Stein«, and her 2010 novel,
born in Berlin in 1986, is a comic artist and illustrator who studied at the University of Art and Design in Halle an der Salle. Their graphic novel debut »Im Land der Frühaufsteher« (tr: In the Land of the Early Risers) focuses on the living conditions of refugees in Saxony-Anhalt.
