Levin Westermann was born in 1980 in Meerbusch and studied at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main as well as at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. In 2012, he published his first poetry collection »unbekannt verzogen« (tr: address unknown). Even in his début texts, the fundamental themes of individual
Leo Tuor was born in Rabius in the Swiss canton Graubünden in 1959. The native Rhaetian attended a German Benedictine boarding school in Disentis and later studied Philosophy, History and Literature in Zurich, Fribourg and Berlin. Tuor trained to be a secondary school teacher but is more active as a
Léonie Bischoff, born in Geneva in 1981, is a comic book author and illustrator. She studied at the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc and worked as a bookseller for a year after receiving her diploma. After several contributions to various anthologies, Bischoff’s first independent publication appeared under the title »Princesse
Laurin Buser was born in 1991. The son of a Swiss family of actors won the Swiss U20 poetry championship at age 16. Since then he has led a varied life between international poetry tours, own theatre productions (»Wunder. Welt. Wort«; tr.: Wonder. World. Word), theatre performances, and films. He
Born in Schaffhausen in 1987, Lara Stoll currently lives in Winterthur. She has been performing in German-speaking regions for three years and is considered an emerging Swiss talent in the slam scene. In September 2006 she won the Swiss championship in the U20 category. At the 2006 National Slam in
Kati Rickenbach, born in 1980 in Basle, discovered her love of comics in a prep course at the city’s School for Design. She studied illustration from 2001 to 2004 at the University of Design and Art in Lucerne. In 2004 she spent an exchange year in Hamburg in the class
Jonas Lüscher, born in 1976 in Zurich, grew up in Bern, where he trained to be a primary school teacher at the evangelical teacher’s seminar in Muristalden until 1998. For a few years, he worked as a dramaturge and story developer in the German film industry and studied from 2005
Jean Ziegler was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1934. He studied law, sociology and political sciences and lectured in sociology at the University of Geneva. His numerous publications are commonly dedicated to the economic and political situation of third world (»Wie kommt der Hunger in die Welt?«, 2002), but also
born 1946 in Slovakian Rimavská Sobota, she studied Slavik and Romance languages in Zurich, Paris and St. Petersburg. In 1971 she wrote her dissertation on the theme of loneliness in Russian literature and worked as an assistant at the Slavonic Institute of Universität Zürich. Since 1977 she is assistant professor
Hugo Loetscher was born in Zurich in 1929. He worked as editor in chief of the »Weltwoche« and as literary editor of the journal »du«, whose supplement he founded. He has been a freelance writer since 1969, writing novels, plays, travelogues and essays. Loetscher was President of the Swiss Writer’s
born in1949, studied at the ETH Zürich, where he also acquired his doctoral degree later. Subsequently, he went to the University of Southern California Los Angeles as a postdoc. From 1981, he spent two years as a researcher at the University of Basel before he returned to the ETH Zürich.
born in 1946, studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. In 1982, he earned his qualifications (habilitation) as a professor of molecular biology at the FU Berlin. After visiting professorships in Innsbruck and Salzburg, he taught in Lübeck from 1990 to 1994. He later became an Associate Professor
