Benedict Wells
Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984. At the age of six he was sent to a state boarding school due to family and other problems at home. Following his graduation from high school in 2003, he decided not to go to university but instead moved to Berlin to pursue his writing. He made a living doing odd jobs. His fourth novel, ›The End of Loneliness‹, spent more than a year and a half on the Spiegel Bestseller list, was awarded the 2016 ›European Union Prize for Literature‹, among other awards, and has been published in 38 languages. After several years in Barcelona, Benedict Wells now lives in Zurich.
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Christine Fehér
Im Januar 1965 wurde ich als einziges Mädchen zwischen zwei Brüdern in Berlin geboren und bin in der City rund um den Ku`damm aufgewachsen. Diese Gegend betrachte ich auch heute noch als meine eigentliche Heimat und muss sie ab und zu sehen, obwohl ich mich eigentlich überall schnell einlebe.
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Nach meiner Schulzeit und dem Abitur 1984 absolvierte ich die Ausbildung zur evangelischen Religionslehrerin am Pädagogisch-Theologischen Institut in Berlin. Seit 1984 habe ich in verschiedenen Berliner Schulen dieses Fach unterrichtet. Besonders wichtige Erfahrungen habe ich dabei in den Jahren gesammelt, in denen ich in der Schule einer Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie gearbeitet habe. Im Moment arbeite ich an einer Grundschule.
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Akwasi
Akwasi is een verhalenverteller. Of hij dat nu doet in een rap, gedicht, column, televisieprogramma of middels Omroep ZWART: hij wilt inspireren, fascineren en prikkelen. Met woorden. Akwasi is een creatieve duizendpoot. Een archetype met het adagium: wees liever een eersterangs versie van jezelf dan een tweederangs versie van iemand anders. Akwasi is autonoom en onafhankelijk, getuige zijn eigen label NEED Recordings en Omroep ZWART.
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Indra Sinha
Indra Sinha (born in 1950 in Colaba, which is part of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra, India) is a British writer of English and Indian descent. Formerly a copywriter for Collett Dickenson Pearce & Partners, Sinha has the distinction of having been voted one of the top ten British copywriters of all time.
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Indra Sinha's books, in addition to his translations of ancient Sanskrit texts into English, include a non-fiction memoir of the pre-internet generation (Cybergypsies), and novels based on the case of K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra (The Death of Mr. Love), and the Bhopal disaster (Animal's People). Animal's People, his most recent book, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and a regional winner of the 2008 Commonwealth -
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Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.
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The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
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I graduated from Barnard College in May of 2003. A few weeks later, I left for Kenya with the Peace Corps, where I spent two years teaching Public Health and HIV education at a small orphans' center a few hours from the Ugandan border. During that time, I began learning Swahili and first encountered the literary magazine that later became the focus of my dissertation. Once I returned home, I worked as a teacher's aide, a cashier at a bookstore, a freelance reporter, a nanny, and a research coordinator at Mass General Hospital before enrolling in the PhD program in English at Harvard in the fall of 2007.
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Ilija Trojanow
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Benjamin Myers
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham, UK, in 1976.
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He is an award-winning author and journalist whose recent novel Cuddy (2023) won the Goldsmiths Prize.
His first short story collection, Male Tears, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
His novel The Offing was published by Bloomsbury in 2019 and is a best-seller in Germany. It was serialised by Radio 4's Book At Bedtime and Radio 2 Book club choice. It is being developed for stage and has been optioned for film.
The non-fiction book Under The Rock, was shortlisted for The Portico Prize For Literature in 2020.
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Bastian Obermayer
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Marcel Möring
Marcel Möring was born in 1957 in Enschede, an industrial town near the Dutch-German border, where he attended a Montessori primary school. In the late sixties his family moved north, to Assen, a small town moderately famous for its annual TT motor races. He finished secondary school and studied Dutch literature for two years, then went from one odd job to another. Since he had already decided to become a writer at the age of thirteen, he saw no point in further education. He wrote several plays in those years, producing and directing two of them, and moved to Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands. Möring published his first novel, Mendels Erfenis, in 1990, to almost unanimous critical acclaim. His second novel, Het Grote Ve
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Frank Schätzing
Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several novellas and satires. His first published novel was the historical Tod und Teufel in 1995, and in 2000 his thriller Lautlos.
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Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. After graduating, he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a magazine illustrator and posted frequently on the Internet forum Wir höflichen Paparazzi (We Polite Paparazzi). In 2001, Herrndorf joined the art and writing collective Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur, eventually contributing to their blog, Riesenmaschine (Giant Machine).
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He published his first novel, In Plüschgewittern (Storm of Plush), in 2002. This was followed by a collection of short stories, Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels (This Side of the Van Allen Belt, 2007), which received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Audience Award.
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Steve Tesich
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.
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His novel Karoo was published posthumously in 1998. Arthur Miller described the novel: "Fascinating—a real satiric invention full of wise outrage.” The novel was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Summer Crossing (1982), was also published in a German translation as Ein letzter Sommer and in a French translation as Rencontre d'été. -
Paulo Coelho
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Bernhard Kegel
geboren am 23. Dezember 1953 in Berlin
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wohnhaft in Berlin und Brandenburg
Studium der Chemie und Biologie an der Freien Universität Berlin, Diplombiologe, Forschungstätigkeit, Arbeit als ökologischer Gutachter und Lehrbeauftragter
1986-1991 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Biologie der TU Berlin, Arbeitsschwerpunkte Zoologie (Insekten, Käfer) und Ökologie, Lehrtätigkeit
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Markus Werner
Markus Werner (December 27, 1944 in Eschlikon, canton of Thurgau) was a German-speaking Swiss writer, the author of Zündels Abgang (Zündel’s Departure).
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Markus Werner was born in Eschlikon (canton of Thurgau). In 1948 the family moved to Thayngen (canton of Schaffhausen) where Werner finished school and passed the general qualification for university entrance in 1965. At the University of Zürich he studied German, Philosophy, and Psychology. In 1974 he completed a doctorate on Max Frisch, whose writing has an important influence on Werner. From 1975 to 1985, he worked as a main teacher, and from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant professor at the Kantonsschule (= preparatory high school) in Schaffhausen. He has dedicated himself exclusively to -
Sherry Turkle
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Professor Turkle writes on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is an expert on mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics. Profiles of Professor Turkle have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She has been named "woman of the -
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Roger Willemsen
Roger Willemsen was a German author, journalist, TV presenter, and public intellectual.
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He studied German philology (Germanistik), philosophy and history of art in Bonn, Munich and Vienna and was awarded a scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk. He did his postgraduate studies on Robert Musil and received his PhD.
Willemsen started his TV career in 1991 as head interviewer at "0137", a daily talkshow and signature programme at newly founded German pay-TV Premiere. He performed about 1.000 interviews, including some with imprisoned members of the Red Army Faction, a fugitive bank robber, a leftover cosmonaut in space station MIR and a cannibal. He also interviewed Audrey Hepburn, Jesse Jackson, Yasser Arafat, Lech Wałęsa, Dame Edna Evera -
Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh is a German novelist.
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Her first book was Adler und Engel (in English: Eagles and Angels), which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel.
Juli Zeh has lived in Leipzig since 1995. Zeh studied human rights law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen - comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam - in 2003. She also has a degree from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. -
Rebecca James
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Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
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Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ha escrito dos libros de narrativa juvenil La maleta de Ignacio Karaoke y 31 de julio de 1993, de donde salió el guion de la película Azul oscuro casi negro. Quedó finalista del 64º premio Planeta con su primera novela para adultos, La isla de Alice4 -
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@kriegundfreitag heißt eigentlich Tobias Vogel und veröffentlicht seit 2017 in verschiedenen sozialen Netzwerken seine mittlerweile berühmten humorvollen und poetischen Strichmenschen-Zeichnungen. Der Name „Krieg und Freitag" entstand durch die Autokorrektur seines Handys, das „Freitag" statt „Frieden" schrieb.
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Größere Bekanntheit erlangte er mit seiner Strichmännchenkette und der damit verbundenen Spendenaktion, die er 2018 anlässlich der Ausschreitungen in Chemnitz zeichnete. 2019 gewann er den Grimme Online Award in der Kategorie „Kultur und Unterhaltung", 2020 den Max-und-Moritz-Publikumspreis. -
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Takis Würger
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Kristine Bilkau
Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
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Morgan Callan Rogers
For marketing purposes, one of my publicists asked me to think about why I stand out. That's a hard question to answer during fractured times filled with bombastic narcissists shouting LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! It's almost better to NOT stand out. So maybe the question is, what is anti-special about me? You're only cool when you don't worry about being cool. It's a Catch-22.
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I've had my moments. I rode a three-speed bicycle across England during a very rainy summer. When I read Wild by Cheryl Strayed, I related to her excitement (high) versus preparedness ratio (low). I was an actress for twenty years, appearing in everything from Skin or Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder to Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas. I have an awesome voice, discovered when I -
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Thomas Brussig is a German writer best known for his satirical novels that deal with the German Democratic Republic.
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Marc Dingman
Ever since my undergraduate years, I've been captivated by the complexities of the human brain—its mysteries, functions, and the science that unravels it all. This fascination has evolved into a lifelong curiosity about everything neuroscience.
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Currently, I teach courses in neuroscience and the health sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Outside the classroom, I'm dedicated to making neuroscience accessible and engaging for everyone who shares my passion for learning about the brain. Through my writing and my YouTube channel, Neuroscientifically Challenged, I break down complex concepts into easy-to-understand segments that are both informative and concise. -
Jakob Arjouni
Jakob Arjouni (alias of Jakob Bothe) published his first novel Happy Birthday, Türke! (1985) at the age of 20.Later he wrote his first play Die Garagen. He became famous after publishing his criminal novel Kayankaya, which was then translated into 10 different languages.
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In 1987, he received the Baden-Württembergischen Autorenpreis für das deutschsprachige Jugendtheater for his play Nazim schiebt ab. In 1992, he received the German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder. He died, aged 48, in Berlin, after a long fight against pancreatic cancer. -
Bernhard Moestl
Nach der Matura in Wien begann Bernhard Moestl eine Ausbildung zum Berufsfotografen, die er mit der Meisterprüfung beendete. Schon in seiner frühen Jugend verspürte er nach eigenen Angaben eine Faszination für die asiatische Philosophie und Kampfkunst. Seit 1991 ist er als Reiseleiter mit Schwerpunkt Osteuropa und Asien für verschiedene Veranstalter in Österreich und Deutschland tätig. Wesentliche Erfahrungen machte Moestl bei seinen Aufenthalten im Shaolin-Kloster in der chinesischen Provinz Henan. Dort lebte er mit den Mönchen und studierte ihre "Gedankenmacht". Heute ist er als Autor, internationaler Vortragsredner sowie Unternehmenscoach tätig. Er lebt in Brașov und ist Geschäftsführer der SC brainworx Europe SRL.
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J.J. Bola
A Kinshasa born, London raised writer, poet, educator and workshop facilitator. London and UK based, but also international; Paris, Brussels, Boston etc, most recently San Francisco and Oakland, where he won the Oakland Poetry Slam. Performs regularly at shows and festivals such as Tongue Fu, Vocals & Verses, Chill Pill, The Round House, Ventnor Fringe, etc as well as Universities; SOAS, UCL, Oxford, Lincoln, University of Birmingham, Standford University and Merrit College in the Bay and other public institutions. Also includes various Radio and Television appearances.
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Margot Friedländer
Margot Friedländer was a German survivor of the Holocaust and public speaker. She and her family were persecuted by the Nazis for being Jews. Born and raised in Berlin, she was forced to go into hiding when her mother and brother were arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. Margot was captured in April 1944 and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, but survived. After emigrating to the United States with her husband in 1946, she eventually returned to live in Berlin in 2010 and began speaking to German youth about her experiences in Nazi Germany and surviving against all odds. She received various honours and awards for promoting human rights and fighting against antisemitism, including the Federal Cross of Merit.
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Iny Lorentz
Hinter dem Namen Iny Lorentz verbirgt sich ein Autorenehepaar.
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Elmar, Iny Lorentz' Ehemann und Co-Autor, stammt aus Bayern und wuchs in einem kleinen Bauerndorf mit fünf Höfen auf. Sein Interesse für Literatur wurde von seiner Religionslehrerin schon früh erkannt und nach Kräften gefördert. Ebenso wie seine spätere Ehefrau begann er bereits als Schüler zu schreiben.
Nach einer durch die Umstände bedingten beruflichen Umorientierung, die ihn im Lauf der Jahre in verschiedene Firmen führte, kam er 1981 nach München und erhielt dort eine Stelle im selben Versicherungskonzern wie Iny, die er bereits seit mehreren Jahren kannte und ein Jahr später heiratete.
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Laetitia Colombani
Laetitia Colombani est une réalisatrice, actrice, scénariste et écrivaine française.
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Après deux années de classe préparatoire Cinésup à Nantes, elle entre à l’École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière. Elle obtient son diplôme en 1998.
Elle écrit et réalise des courts-métrages, puis deux longs-métrages : "À la folie... pas du tout (2002) avec Audrey Tautou, Samuel le Bihan et Isabelle Carré, qui remporte le Prix Sopadin Junior du Meilleur Scénario, puis "Mes stars et moi" (2008) avec Kad Merad et Catherine Deneuve.
Elle est également comédienne à la télévision et au cinéma, dans une douzaine de longs métrages, dont "Cloclo" de Florent Emilio Siri, sorti en 2012.
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Joseph von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (March 10, 1788 – November 26, 1857) was a German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school.
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Paul Watzlawick
Was an Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he has commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California, until his death at the age of 85
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Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.
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Ewald Arenz
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glossen und Kindergeschichten auch Theaterstücke und historische Kriminalromane.
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Er ist mittlerweile einer der produktivsten und erfolgreichsten Schriftsteller Süddeutschlands, dessen Gesamtauflage weit über 120.000 verkaufte Bücher zählt. -
Daniel Glattauer
Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.
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Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).
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Martin Suter
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.
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Anne Weber
Anne Weber ist Schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin. Sie schreibt in deutscher wie auch in französischer Sprache. Ihre Werke wurden mit dem Heimito von Doderer-Literaturpreis, dem 3sat-Preis und dem Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis ausgezeichnet. 2020 wurde sie zur Stadtschreiberin von Bergen-Enkheim ernannt und erhielt den Deutschen Buchpreis. Sie lebt seit 1983 in Paris.
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Kerry Hudson
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Growing up in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan parks provided her with a keen eye for idiosyncratic behaviour, material for life, and a love of travel.
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Her first novel, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE-CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA, was published by Chatto & Windus in Summer 2012. It has since been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Southbank Sky Arts Award, Green Carnation Prize, Polari Prize, Author's Club First Book Award and Saltire First Book Award. It was the winner of the Scottish Book Awards: Best First Novel.
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Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by Charlotte Collins.
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi is a Mauritanian citizen who has been imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp since August 4, 2002. In 2005, he wrote the nonfiction book Guantánamo Diary , which was published 10 years later.
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Axel Hacke
Axel Hacke lebt als Schriftsteller und Kolumnist des Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazins in München. Berühmt ist seine Kolumne „Das Beste aus aller Welt", die er seit Jahrzehnten jede Woche darin veröffentlicht. Er gehört zu den bekanntesten Autoren Deutschlands, seine Bücher wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. Seine Arbeit wurde unter anderem mit dem Joseph-Roth-Preis, zwei Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preisen, dem Theodor-Wolff-Preis und zuletzt dem Ben Witter-Preis 2019 ausgezeichnet.
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Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, and Show of Hands, all four books being translated into fourteen languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001, and Via Satellite, which he adapted into a feature film and directed, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Also a filmmaker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films, most recently Death Of A Superhero (2011) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Anthony divides his time between London and Los Angeles.
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Charlotte Kerner
Charlotte Kerner, geboren 1950 in Speyer, studierte Volkswirtschaft und Soziologie in Mannheim, Studienaufenthalte in Kanada und der Volksrepublik China folgten. Als Buchautorin hat sie sich besonders durch ihre Frauenbiografien (alle im Verlag Beltz & Gelberg) einen Namen gemacht: 1987 gewann sie mit "Lise, Atomphysikerin" zum ersten Mal den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis, ihr Klon-Roman "Blueprint-Blaupause" erhielt die begehrte Auszeichnung im Jahr 2000. Diese Zukunftsgeschichte wurde mit Franka Potente in der Hauptrolle erfolgreich verfilmt und in 13 Sprachen übersetzt.
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Ödön von Horváth
Ödön von Horváth was a German-writing, Austro-Hungarian-born, playwright and novelist. Important topics in Horváth's works were popular culture, politics and history. He especially tried to warn of the dawn of fascism and its dangers. Among Horváth's most enduringly popular works, Jugend ohne Gott describes the youth in Nazi Germany from a disgruntled teacher's point of view, who, himself at first an opportunist, is helpless against the racist and militaristic Nazi propaganda that his pupils are subjected to and that dehumanizes them and, at last, loses his job but gains his identity.
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Having always lived in fear of being struck by lightning, in Paris Horváth was hit by a falling branch and killed during a thunderstorm on the Champs-Élysées, -
Nina George
ENG (for German Bio please scroll down).
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Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Georges writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.
In 2012 and 2013 she won the DeLiA and the Glauser-Prize. In 2013 she had -
Fritz Riemann
Fritz Riemann was a German psychologist, psychoanalyst, astrologer, and author.
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Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius (Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, lived c. 3rd century CE) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy.
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Andreas Steinhöfel
Born in 1962 in Battenberg, Germany, Steinhöfel now works as a translator and reviewer and writes screenplays. First and foremost, though, he is the author of numerous children's and young adult books awarded with various literature prizes. His bestseller "The Center of the World" was nominated for the well-known and prestigious German Youth Literature Prize and has been published in numerous countries worldwide.
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Steinhöfel was awarded the Erich Kästner Prize in 2009, after Peter Rühmkorf, Loriot, Robert Gernhardt, and Tomi Ungerer. In the same year, he was also awarded several literary prizes for his work "Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten", including the German Youth Literature Prize, the Catholic Children's and Youth Literature Prize as -
Emilie Pine
Emilie Pine is an Associate Professor in Modern Drama at the University College Dublin, and is the author of the No.1 bestseller Notes to Self (Tramp Press).
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Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967) was a German author who wrote several socialist-anarchist novels and narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical.
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In the beginning Graf wrote under his real name Oskar Graf. After 1918, he edited his works for newspapers under the pseudonym, Oskar Graf-Berg; for the works he regarded as "worth being read", he selected the name Oskar Maria Graf. -
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz is an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.
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Sadie Jones
was born in London, the daughter of a poet and an actress. Her father, Evan Jones, was born in Portland, Jamaica in 1927. He grew up on a banana farm, eventually moving to the United States, and from there to England in the 1950s. His most widely acclaimed work is "The Song of the Banana Man". Sadie's mother, Joanna Jones, was featured as an extra in various television series, including "The Avengers."
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As a young woman, Sadie opted out of attending university, preferring instead to work an assortment of odd jobs (video production, temping, waiting tables) and to travel. After visiting America, the Caribbean and Mexico, Sadie settled in Paris, where she taught English and wrote her first screenplay. She eventually moved to London, where she -
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.
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Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After jobbing as an assembler, bookseller and assistant director, he studied philosophy. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer, becoming known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund (The Distant Lover). -
Christian Hardinghaus
About the Author
Dr. Christian Hardinghaus, born in 1978 in Osnabrück, Germany, is a German writer, historian, and media researcher with a Ph.D. A versatile author who moves skillfully between non-fiction and fiction, his works are consistently characterized by thorough historical research and psychological depth. He lives with his wife and two children in his hometown of Osnabrück, where he works as a full-time writer. Visit his official website at christian-hardinghaus.de for more information about his work and upcoming releases.
Academic BackgroundAs the grandson of a doctorate-holding historical scientist, his fascination with history was practically laid in his cradle. After completing his high school education with a focus on history, h
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Jason Starr
Jason Starr is the international bestselling author of many crime novels and thrillers, including Cold Caller, The Follower, The Pack and The Next Time I Die. He also writes comics for Marvel (Wolverine, The Punisher) and DC (Batman, The Avenger) and original graphic novels such as Red Border and Casual Fling. In addition, he writes film and TV tie-in novels including an official Ant-Man novel and the Gotham novels based on the hit TV show. His books have been published in sixteen languages and several of his novels are in development for film and TV. He has won the Anthony Award for mystery fiction twice, as well as a Barry Award. Starr lives in New York City.
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Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler is a former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012.
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Heddi Goodrich
Heddi Goodrich, originally from Washington, D.C., spent a decade growing up and wising up in Naples before moving to Auckland, New Zealand. Lost in the Spanish Quarter is her first novel, originally released in Italy as Perduti nei Quartieri Spagnoli (Giunti, 2019).
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Antoine Wilson
Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel Mouth to Mouth from Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster), and the novels The Interloper and Panorama City, from Other Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, respectively.
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He is a contributing editor of the literary journal A Public Space as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, Quarterly West, and Best New American Voices, among other publications.
He was winner of the San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction, and has been a finalist for The National Magazine Award, the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award.
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Eno Raud
He was an Estonian children's book author. He graduated from university with a course in Estonian language study in 1952. From 1952 to 1956 he worked in the Estonian National Library. From 1956 to 1965 he worked in the Estonian national publishing association. After that he retired and devoted himself to writing. His works include "Three funny friends", "The story with the flying saucer", "Fire in a darkened city", "Nii või naa" (This or that way) and others.
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Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll, the German queen of crime fiction is one of the most appreciated German female authors. Her writing consists of imagination and the experiences she gathered while living in postwar Germany.
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James Hibbard
James Hamilton Hibbard is a Northern California-based writer and former professional cyclist who studied philosophy at the PhD-level.
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His philosophical memoir, THE ART OF CYCLING: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels (Quercus/ Hachette Australia), explores questions of embodiment and meaning in our increasingly detached and virtual society, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times 2022 British Sports Book of the Year, Cycling. -
Max Frisch
Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he vis
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Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz (1926 - 2014) was a German author who wrote twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.
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Lenz was the son of a customs officer in Lyck (Elk), East Prussia. After his graduation exam in 1943, he was drafted into the navy. According to documents released in June 2007, he may have joined the Nazi party on the 12th of July 1943. Shortly before the end of World War II, he defected to Denmark, but became a prisoner of war in -
Heike B. Görtemaker
Heike B. Görtemaker is a German historian known mostly for her biographies of Margret Boveri, German journalist and writer of the post-World War II period, and Eva Braun, the partner and wife of Adolf Hitler.
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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
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Thomas Glavinic
The former writer of advertising copy and taxi driver emerged with his 1998 debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw. The novel describes the life of chess master Carl Schlechter. The book received several awards and has been translated into other languages, but did not make it onto the bestseller lists. The novel has autobiographical aspects: Thomas Glavinic played his first chess game at the age of five and in 1987 he achieved second place in the Austrian chess rankings for his age group.
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The novel Herr Susi (Mr. Susi) followed in 2000. Written in hard prose, it is a statement against the football business, and received mainly negative reviews from the critics. In 2001, the criminal novel Der Kameramörder (The Camera Murderer) (awarded -
Luisa Neubauer
Luisa-Marie Neubauer is a German climate change activist and publicist. In Germany, she is one of the main organizers of the Greta Thunberg-inspired school strike Fridays for Future.
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Judith Hermann
Judith Hermann is a German author.
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She holds a Masters degree in German and Philosophy and attended the Berliner Journalistenschule, a highly selective professional academy for journalists. During this training she did an internship with the German language newspaper Aufbau in New York. -
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Norman Ohler
Norman Ohler is a German author and screenwriter.
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Christine Kabus
Escritora alemana nacida en Würzburg en 1964, Christine Kabus estudió Literatura e Historia en la Universidad de Múnich. Posteriormente, Kabus trabajó como asistente de dirección y directora teatral, además de como guionista para series de televisión.
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Gran amante de los paisajes nórdicos gracias a las obras de Astrid Lindgren y Lagerlöf Selma, Kabus decidió aprender noruego y viajar en numerosas ocasiones al norte de Europa.
En 2011 publicó su primera novela, En el corazón de los fiordos, a la que siguieron títulos como La isla de los glaciares azules o Hijas de la luz del norte, donde la naturaleza, la historia y la pasión se combinan casi a partes iguales, rindiendo homenaje a esas tierras que tanto han inspirado a la autora alemana. -
Ferdinand von Schirach
Ferdinand von Schirach (born 1964 in Munich) is a German lawyer and writer. He published his first short stories at the age of forty-five. Shortly thereafter he became one of Germany's most successful authors. His books, which have been translated into more than 35 languages, have sold millions of copies worldwide and have made him an internationally celebrated star of German literature.
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Jennifer McCann
Jennifer McCann is the creator of the award-winning Vegan Lunch Box blog. She lives in Kennewick, Washington.
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Selim Özdogan
Selim Özdoğan (1971 in Köln-Mülheim geboren) ist ein türkischstämmiger deutscher Schriftsteller.
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Martin Suter
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.
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Eveline Hasler
Eveline Hasler wurde in Glarus geboren, studierte Psychologie und Geschichte in Fribourg und Paris und war einige Zeit als Lehrerin tätig. Heute lebt sie im Tessin. Sie schreibt vor allem historische Romane, aber auch Lyrik, Kinderbücher, Kolumnen, Reportagen sowie Radio- und Zeitschriftenbeiträge. Ihr Werk wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Schubart-Literaturpreis, dem Meersburger Droste-Preis für Dichterinnen und dem Justinus-Kerner-Preis. 1990/91 war sie Guest Lecturer am German Department der City University in New York. Ihre Bücher wurden bisher in zwölf Sprachen übersetzt.
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Jonathan Lee
“THE GREAT MISTAKE is a great New York story.” —Entertainment Weekly
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“The best American novel of the year.” —The Guardian
“Seriously entertaining...The detective work is ingenious.” —The Sunday Times (London)
JONATHAN LEE's new novel, THE GREAT MISTAKE (June 2021) dramatizes the mysterious life and murder of a real historical figure — Andrew Haswell Green — who was central to the creation of Central Park, The Met, The New York Public Library, and much more.
Jonathan's previous book HIGH DIVE was named a best book of the year in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker.
Jonathan is also editor in chief of the indie publishing house Catapult in NYC, publishing work he loves by authors like Chelsea Bieker, Jon -
Martin Walser
Martin Walser was a German writer. He became famous for describing the conflicts his anti-heroes have in his novels and stories. In 1998 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt. He was also the father of authors Johanna Walser, Theresia Walser and Alissa Walser.
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Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker (* vermutlich 30. September 1937 in Łódź, Polen als Jerzy Bekker geboren[1]; † 14. März 1997 in Sieseby, Schleswig-Holstein) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und DDR-Dissident.
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Jurek Becker (probably September 30, 1937 – March 14, 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust. -
Palina Rojinski
Palina Rojinski, geb. 1985, ist eine russisch-deutsche Fernsehmoderatorin und Schauspielerin. Ihre Karriere begann sie an der Seite des Moderatorenduos Joko und Klaas. Es folgten Kinoerfolge wie Männerherzen, Willkommen bei den Hartmanns und Nightlife und eigene Shows auf ProSieben, ARD und Netflix, sowie ihr Spotify Original Podcast Podkinski, der mittlerweile der erfolgreichste deutsche Interviewpodcast ist. Mit ihren Astrolinski-IGTV- Videos, der Modekollektion und dem Online-Shop Astrolinski zeigt und lebt sie eine neue Seite von sich selbst – die Liebe zu den Sternen. www.astrolinski.com
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Theresa Howes
Theresa Howes grew up in Shropshire and has a background as an actor. Her historical fiction has been long-listed for the Mslexia Novel Award, The Bath Novel Award, The Caledonia Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.
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She lives in London with her husband and Claude, a larger than average cat. When she isn’t writing or reading, she enjoys seeing how many more plants she can cram into her tiny London garden, walking, and putting the world to rights over a gin and tonic.
Her debut novel, THE SECRETS WE KEEP was published in November 2022. Her second novel, THE FRENCH AFFAIR was published in December 2023. Her third novel, A MATTER OF PERSUASION, which is a Gilded Age retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, set in 1882 in New York and R -
Bela B. Felsenheimer
Bela B. (Künstlername) bzw. Bela B. Felsenheimer (Schriftstellername) ist Schlagzeuger, Gitarrist, Komponist, Sänger, Schauspieler, Synchron- und Hörbuchsprecher, war Comicbuch-Verleger und hatte eine eigene Radiosendung. Bekannt ist er vor allem als Mitglied der Punkrock-Band die Ärzte. Als Autor hat er bisher einige Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht und ein Filmdrehbuch verfasst. Scharnow ist sein erster Roman.
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Eve Harris
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Eve Harris was born to Israeli-Polish parents in Chiswick, West London, in 1973. She taught for 12 years at inner-city comprehensives and independent schools in London and also in Tel Aviv, after moving to Israel in 1999. She returned to London in 2002 to resume teaching at an all girls' Catholic convent school. 'The Marrying of Chani Kaufman' was inspired by her final year of teaching at an all girls' ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in North West London. Eve lives in London with her husband, Jules, and their daughter Rosie. -
Thorsten Nagelschmidt
Thorsten Nagelschmidt, 1976 in Rheine geboren, ist Schriftsteller, Musiker und Künstler.
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Bis 1993 bis 2009 war er Sänger, Texter und Gitarrist der Band Muff Potter, die in dieser Zeit ein Demotape, sieben Alben und mehrere Singles veröffentlichten und über 600 Konzerte spielten. Von 1993 bis 1998 brachte er das Fanzine Wasted Paper heraus. Als Gastmusiker arbeitete er mit Künstlern wie Chuck Ragan, Kreator, Oliver Koletzki und dem hr-Sinfonieorchester. Mit seiner Linoldruckserie „Raucher“ hatte er seit 2011 deutschlandweit zahlreiche Ausstellungen.
Unter seinem Künstlernamen Nagel veröffentlichte er die Romane »Wo die wilden Maden graben« (2007, Ventil Verlag, das Hörbuch wurde von Farin Urlaub, Axel Prahl und Nagel eingelesen) und »Was koste -
Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
Possibly Germany’s most well-known young author of the past 15 years, von Stuckrad-Barre stands at the forefront of a new literary movement that moved from Germany’s wartime past and into the 21st century.
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After working for Rolling Stone, von Stuckrad-Barre’s 1998 book Soloalbum (written when he was only 23) captured the emotions of young love to the soundtrack of Oasis and Pearl Jam. After the follow-up Livealbum, von Stuckrad-Barre embarked on various ambitious projects. His self-described goal has always been to reflect “what is going on [in the world]”, and he continues to do so in unconventional ways, sometimes being refered to as the ‘bad boy’ of the German literary scene.
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Heinrich Breloer
Heinrich Breloer, German author and acclaimed film director who has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history.
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Tommy Jaud
Tommy Jaud wurde im Juli 1970 im fränkischen Mekka der Automobil-Zulieferindustrie Schweinfurt geboren.
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Nach dem Abitur war Tommy Jaud Zivi im Kindergarten, wo er erfolglos als Hausmeister und Koch tätig war. Seitdem meidet Jaud Kindergärten.
Nach dem überstürzten Abbruch seines Germanistik-Studiums in der Bierstadt Bamberg zog Jaud nach Köln. Dort war er Ende der 90er u.a. Headwriter der Sat.1-›Wochenshow‹ und Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends Creative Producer von Anke Engelkes Kultsendung ›Ladykracher‹.
2004 schließlich schrieb Jaud seinen ersten Roman ›Vollidiot‹. Zwei Jahre später erschien der nächste »Hammer von Gegenwartsroman« (DER SPIEGEL): ›Resturlaub. Das Zweitbuch‹, Es folgten das Drittbuch ›Millionär‹, und der Zweiteiler ›Zwei Weihna -
Ann Gosslin
Ann Gosslin spent her early years in the US, before heeding the call of distant shores. Inspired by a lifelong interest in psychology, she explores in her fiction the dark (and often hidden) side of human nature.
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Daniel Schreiber
Daniel Schreiber, geboren 1977, ist als Kunstkritiker für verschiedene internationale Zeitungen und Magazine tätig. Er ist Autor der Susan-Sontag-Biografie 'Geist und Glamour' (2007) sowie der hochgelobten Essays Nüchtern (2014), Zuhause (2017) und des Bestsellers Allein (2021). Er lebt in Berlin.
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Karen Köhler
Karen Köhler (1974, Hamburg) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin, Dramatikerin und Schauspielerin.
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Donald B. Kuspit
Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics.
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Alois Hotschnig
Alois Hotschnig (born 3 October 1959) is an Austrian writer, whose stories have been described as having "the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams". He was winner of the Erich Fried Prize in 2008, and shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.
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Gianna Molinari
Gianna Molinari wurde 1988 in Basel geboren und lebt in Zürich. Sie studierte von 2009 bis 2012 Literarisches Schreiben am Schweizerischen Literaturinstitut Biel und danach Neuere Deutsche Literatur an der Universität Lausanne. Sie war Stipendiatin der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa 2012 am Literarischen Colloquium Berlin und erhielt im selben Jahr den Preis sowie den Publikumspreis des 17. MDR-Literaturwettbewerbs. Bei den „Tagen der deutschen Literatur“ 2017 in Klagenfurt wurde sie für einen Auszug aus ihrem Debüt „Hier ist noch alles möglich“ mit dem 3sat-Preis ausgezeichnet.
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Benno Pludra
Benno Pludra war ein deutscher Schriftsteller.
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Pludra war Verfasser von Erzählungen und Romanen für Kinder und Jugendliche. Mit einer Gesamtauflage von mehr als fünf Millionen Exemplaren gilt er als erfolgreichster Jugendbuchautor der DDR-Literatur; teilweise erschienen seine Bücher auch in westdeutschen Lizenzausgaben.