Herkunft: Germany

Sarah Farina

is an international DJ, music producer and curator. She’s innovative, she’s skilful, and she’s the smiling antithesis of genre cliques and sour scene elitists and sprinkles positivity over the darkest bass. What you hear is all you need to know. And what you’ll hear from Sarah Farina’s sets and music

David Dilmaghani

born in 1981, he studied philosophy, political science, and psychoanalysis in Frankfurt am Main, Paris, Bordeaux, and Tel Aviv. Following research fellowships, including at the Max Planck Society where he focused on the functioning of the public sphere, he transitioned into cultural administration. From 2016 to 2023, he headed the

Anna Engelke

born in 1969 in Unna, Anna Engelke is the Deputy Head of the ARD Capital Studio and the presenter of »Bericht aus Berlin«. She began her journalism career in 1992 at the »Westfalenpost« in Menden, before moving to WDR in Dortmund. In 1996, she completed a traineeship at NDR, after

Uljana Wolf

born in Berlin in 1979, is a poet and translator. Her most recent publications include the poetry collection »muttertask« [2023] and the essay collection »Etymological Gossip« [2021], which was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category Nonfiction/Essay. As a translator of poetry, she has rendered works by Christian

Marie Bloching

Marie Bloching, born in 1996, is a German theater and film actress. After training at the renowned Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich [2016–2020], she gained stage experience in various productions, including »Broken Brecht« [2021] and the performance »Etude for an Emergency« [2020] at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Julia Korbik

born in 1988 in the Ruhr area, is an author, editor and presenter. She mainly focuses on politics, society and (pop) culture from a feminist perspective. As part of a German-French double degree program, she studied european studies, communications and journalism in Lille and Münster. Julia Korbik is the author

Vassili Golod

born in 1993 in Kharkiv, is the ARD’s correspondent for Ukraine. At the age of two, he moved to Germany with his family and grew up in Bad Pyrmont, where he also attended school. He studied political science and history at the University of Göttingen and Aberystwyth University in Wales.

Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

born in 1991 in Kiel, is a writer, columnist, editor, and co-editor of Delfi. Magazin für Neue Literatur. They contribute to publications such as Missy Magazine and taz. In 2019, Yaghoobifarah co-edited the essay collection »Eure Heimat ist unser Alptraum« [tr. Your Homeland is Our Nightmare]. This was followed by

Juan S. Guse

born 1989 in Seligenstadt, Germany is a sociologist and author. His novels »Lärm und Wälder« [2015, tr. Noise and Forests] and »Miami Punk« [2019], as well as his forthcoming collection »Tausendmal so viel Geld wie jetzt« [2025, tr. A Thousand Times As Much Money As Now] are all published by

Paul Ronzheimer

born in 1985 in Aurich, East Frisia, is a journalist, war correspondent, author, and deputy editor-in-chief of »BILD«. After completing a traineeship, he began working as an editor at the »Emder Zeitung« in 2005. From 2009 to 2011, he served as »BILD«’s parliamentary correspondent in Berlin. In 2012, he became

Nikolaus Blome

born in 1963 in Bonn, is a journalist and commentator. Since 2020, he has been head of the Politics and Economics department at RTL and ntv. Previously, he worked for Tagesspiegel a.o. and as part of the chief editing staff for Die Welt, Bild, and Der Spiegel, where he continues

Ingo Römling

born 1965 in Frankfurt am Main, is a graphic designer and comic illustrator. Many of his works are visions of possible futures, from zombie apocalypses to cyberpunk cityscapes, as well as adaptations of beloved sci-fi series such as »Star Wars« and »Trollhunters«. He currently illustrates the series »Malcolm Max« for