Stephan Szász, born in 1966, is a stage, film, and television actor. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover. Szász has performed on various stages in Germany, including the Schauspielhaus Köln, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Bremen, Schaubühne Berlin, Nationaltheater Weimar, and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. He appeared there
Stefan Zweifel was born in 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland. After studying philosophy, comparative literature, and Egyptology, he wrote his dissertation, working with Michael Pfister, on Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the French doctor and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The two also collaborated on
born in Hamburg in 1950, is a literary and cultural science scholar. She held academic posts in Hamburg, Essen, Zurich, Potsdam, Princeton and was the director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin from 1999 to 2015. She has published on authors such as Heine, Freud, Warburg,
The British writer and journalist, Sharon Dodua Otoo, was born in 1972 in London to Ghanaian parents. She studied German and Management Studies at the Royal Holloway College, University of London until 1997. In 2006 she relocated to Germany. In 2012 she published her first novella, titled »the things i
born in 1982 at Lake Constance, studied art history and German language and literature in Hamburg. He later worked as an editor for the Matthes & Seitz publishing house in Berlin. In 2014, he founded Guggolz Verlag, which specializes in new translations of works from the first half of the
is a playwright, essayist, and dramaturge. Salzmann’s theatre works have been translated into over twenty languages and were most recently awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin 2020. The debut »Außer sich« (2017; tr: Frantic) was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize and the Jürgen Ponto Prize and was shortlisted for the German Book
born in 1956 in Al-Habbaniyah, Iraq, left his home country in 1979. Nowadays Shimon lives in London. Shimon is a writer of short stories and poems as well as a publisher of anthologies. His debut novel »An Iraqi in Paris« (2005/2011) was highly praised by the critics. In the Arab
Professor Emerita at University of Bremen, where she taught (Afro)American Studies, Gender Studies, and Black Diaspora Studies. Her research focuses on a critique of modernity as a colonial matrix, particularly on the study of Western modernity as a product of the colonial enslavement of Africa and the so-called New World.
is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Previously, he taught English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published four books on African American culture, race studies, and sexuality studies and has received numerous grants for
born in 1948, the son of Heinrich Böll is an artist, co-founder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and executor of his father’s estate. From 1967 Böll studied printing and painting in Cologne and Vienna. In 1975 he became the managing director of Lamuv Verlag, which he co-founded, and has also
born in 1951 in Solingen, is a doctor of romance studies. She leads seminars at different universities on Spanish and Latin American literature as well as on literary translation with a focus on poetry. For several years she has worked as a freelance translator of Spanish and Latin American literature.
is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a doctorate in cultural studies, a master’s degree in ethics, and a bachelor’s degrees in feminist studies and law. Her research interests include black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, gender and sexual violence, and philosophy
