Anna Schneider is a journalist. She studied law and art history in Vienna and then worked as an external lecturer and university assistant (praedoc) at the Institute for Constitutional Law at the University of Vienna. From 2014 to 2017 she was an advisor on constitutional and human rights issues for
Born in 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk, she is a Ukrainian writer and essayist. She studied philology at the Precarpathian University in Ivano-Frankivsk and subsequently worked as a cultural and investigative journalist in Kyiv. In 2011, she emigrated to Austria. She is the author of several novels and one children’s book. Her
born in 1991 in Putzleinsdorf is an author and philologist. She worked as auxiliary shaft worker in metalworking before pursuing studies in German Philology and English a the University of Vienna, as well as in Language and Design at the Muthesius Arts College in Kiel. From 2018-2020, Füchsl was a
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied literature and humanities at the university there before leaving his home country in 2007. In 2009/2010 he was City Writer of Graz, where he has lived ever since. He works at the
Barbi Marković, born in 1980 in Belgrade, studied German Studies in Belgrade and Vienna. In Belgrade, she worked as an editor at Rende Publishing House. She has been living in Vienna since 2006, and in 2011/2012, she was the city writer in Graz. In 2009, she made a splash with
Gerald Knaus, born in Austria in 1970, is an expert in international politics, having studied in Oxford, Brussels, and Bologna. He has held a lectureship in economics at the State University of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and is a regular lecturer on Southeast Europe at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker was born in 1982 to a farming family in Kirchdorf an der Krems and grew up in Eberstalzell, Upper Austria. He studied agriculture, history, and international development in Vienna. He made his debut with the novel »Der lange Gang über die Stationen« [tr: The Stations of the Long
born in Graz in 1989. She has published two novels as well as several pieces for literary magazines and radio. She has also produced texts for the theatre and for film. Numerous awards and literary scholarships, most recently a government scholarship awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the
Thomas Macho, born in Vienna in 1952, is a cultural scholar and philosopher. In 1984, he completed his postdoctoral lecturer thesis »On the Metaphors of Death« at the Universität Klagenfurt. He was Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 1993 to 2016. Since 2016, he runs the
was born in 1983, lives in Innsbruck. Writes short stories and prose as well as slam poetry and art reviews. His texts have been published in several literary journals (e.g. DUM, Kolik, Lichtungen, The Gap). He won the Austrian National Poetry Slam (Ö-Slam) in 2008 and is one of the
born in 1965, is an Austrian writer, arts and cultural manager, communications coach, and behavioral trainer. To date, he has published five volumes of poetry and one novel. Since 2000, Insayif has worked with musicians, dancers and visual artists on a range of different interdisciplinary art performance projects, and also
Sarah Michaela Orlovský was born in Linz in 1984 and has been publishing picture, read-aloud, beginners, children’s, and young adult books since 2012.Her first book, the young adult novel »Status: Karibik«, co-authored with Elisabeth Etz, was published in 2012. Her debut novel »Tomaten mögen keinen Regen« (2013; tr: Tomatoes Don’t
