Karolina Golimowska, born in Aachen, grew up in Warsaw, lives in Berlin and is a literary scholar, translator and author of short prose and journalistic pieces. She has published in Sinn und Form, Gazeta Wyborcza, the German-Polish magazine Dialog, Chimera, Wyspa and academic journals, among others. Golimowska holds a PhD
Cymin Samawatie (Iran/Germany) was born in Braunschweig in 1976 and works as a singer, composer, pianist and conductor. She studied classical percussion, piano and voice at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and jazz vocals at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her trans-traditional approach to contemporary music,
Janka Oertel, born in 1983 in Kiel, holds a PhD in Political Science and is a Sinologist. As a Senior Policy Fellow and Director of the Asia Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), she focuses on China’s foreign and economic policy. Her research primarily explores the multifaceted
Heinz Bude [*1954] is a professor em. of macrosociology. He researches generational issues, exclusion and entrepreneurial culture. In 2019 he published »Solidarität. Die Zukunft einer großen Idee«, 2024 »Abschied von den Boomern«. Status: August 2024
Iunona Guruli was born in Tbilisi in 1978 and is a writer and literary translator. She studied acting and journalism in Georgia and moved to Germany in 1999, where she studied politics and history. Guruli made her debut in Georgia in 2015 with the short story collection »Die Diagnose« (tr:
Karen Duve was born in Hamburg in 1961. She trained as a tax inspector, worked as a factory worker and proofreader for a newspaper, and drove a cab for 13 years. She is the author of numerous novels as well as several non-fiction and children’s books and works in a
Frank Terhorst, born in Xanten in 1969, studied economics and social sciences in Duisburg and Dublin after training as a mechanic. He then lived in several different countries, mainly in Africa, where he worked for various humanitarian aid organizations. Today he runs two mini golf courses in Neukölln and Steglitz.
Tobias Sauter is a geoscientist specializing in climate research. He studied geosciences in Freiburg and Granada and completed his doctorate at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen on the optimization and uncertainty analysis of non-linear prediction algorithms. He is a professor at the Department of Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Hedwig Richter, born in 1973 in Urach, is a historian and author. She studied history, German, and philosophy in Heidelberg, Belfast, and Berlin and completed her habilitation at the University of Greifswald in 2016 on the cultural history of elections in the 19th century. She writes for newspapers such as
Johann Braun, born in 1992, is a human geographer at the University of Heidelberg. He studied cultural geography, sociology, and journalism and completed his doctorate in 2022 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on right-wing urban politics in the past and present. He researches and teaches urban politics and spatial imaginaries
Frank Bösch was born in Lübeck in 1969. He taught history at the universities of Göttingen, Bochum and Gießen. Since 2011 he is director of the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History (ZZF) and Professor of 20th Century European History at the University of Potsdam. Most recently, he published »Deals mit
Jens Beckert, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1967, is Professor of Sociology and has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne since 2005. He was Professor of Social Theory at the Georg August University in Göttingen between 2003 and 2005. His
