Daniela Dröscher
Daniela Dröscher, Jahrgang 1977, aufgewachsen in Rheinland-Pfalz, lebt in Berlin. Promotion im Fach Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Potsdam sowie ein Diplom in »Szenischem Schreiben« an der Universität Graz. Ihr Romandebüt »Die Lichter des George Psalmanazar« erschien 2009, es folgten der Erzählband »Gloria« (2010) und der Roman »Pola« (2012) sowie das Memoir »Zeige deine Klasse« (2018). Sie wurde u.a. mit dem Anna Seghers-Preis, dem Arbeitsstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds sowie dem Robert-Gernhardt-Preis (2017) ausgezeichnet. Der Roman »Lügen über meine Mutter« (2022) stand auf der Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises und ist bald im Kino zu sehen.
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Peter Weiss
Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.
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Weiss' first art exhibition took place in 1936. His first produced play was Der Turm in 1950. In 1952 he joined the Swedish Experimental Film Studio, where he made films for several years. During this period, he also taught painting at Stockholm's People's University, and illustrated a Swedish edition of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. Until the early 1960s, Weiss also wrote prose. His work consists of short and intense novels with Kafkaesque details and feelings, often with autobiographical background. One of the most known films made by Peter Weiss -
Caroline Wahl
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.
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Claudia Schumacher
Claudia Schumacher, 1986 in Tübingen geboren, verbrachte ihre Jugend im Stuttgarter Speckgürtel. Nach dem Studium in Berlin folgten sieben Jahre in Zürich, wo sie als Journalistin und Kolumnistin arbeitete, Redakteurin bei der ›NZZ am Sonntag‹ war. Heute lebt die Autorin in Hamburg und schreibt unter anderem für ›DIE ZEIT‹.
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Kim Eui-kyung
Kim Eui-kyung is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Youth Bankruptcy (2014) won the Korea Economic Daily Youth Literary Contest, and her second novel Call Center was awarded the 6th Soorim Literary Prize. She also published the story collection Showroom, set against the backdrop of IKEA, and the essay collection The Season Called Life.
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Her latest novel Hello Baby, a groundbreaking work of Korean feminist fiction about a group of women undergoing IVF at a fertility clinic in Seoul, will be published by Fourth Estate in the UK and Hogarth in the US. Foreign rights have also been sold to Germany, Italy and Holland. It will be the first time Kim Eui-kyung’s work will be published outside of Asia. -
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Thomas Brussig
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Jeannie Gunn
We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. She published this book under the pen name Mrs Aeneas Gunn.
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Mrs Gunn was the first white woman to settle in the area. Her husband was a partner in Elsey cattle station on the Roper River, some 300 miles (483 km) south of Darwin. On 2 January 1902 the couple sailed for Port Darwin so that he could take up his role as the station's new manager. In Palmerston (Darwin), Mrs Gunn was discouraged from accompanying her husband to the station on the basis that as a woman she would -
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a revolutionary Black feminist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Her first volume of poetry, The First Cities (1968), was published by the Poet's Press and edited by Diane di Prima, a former classmate and friend from Hunter College High School. Dudley Randall, a poet and critic, asserted in his review of the book that Lorde "does not wave a black flag, but her blackness is there, implicit, in the bone."
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Sophie White
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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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Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.
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Takis Würger
Takis Würger, geboren 1985, ist Redakteur beim Nachrichtenmagazin »Der Spiegel«. Im Alter von 28 Jahren ging er nach England, um an der Universität von Cambridge Ideengeschichte zu studieren. Dort boxte er als Schwergewicht für den Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club und wurde Mitglied in verschiedenen studentischen Klubs.
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Fatma Aydemir
Fatma Bahar Aydemir (* 1986 in Karlsruhe) ist eine deutsche Journalistin und Schriftstellerin.
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Fatma Aydemir wuchs in einem Vorort von Karlsruhe auf. Ihre Großeltern kamen als kurdisch-türkische Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland, als ihre Eltern Teenager waren. Sie studierte Germanistik und Amerikanistik in Frankfurt am Main. Seit 2012 lebt Aydemir in Berlin und arbeitete bis 2023 als Redakteurin bei der Tageszeitung taz, wo sie sich mit den Themen Popkultur, Literatur und der Türkei beschäftigte. Ihr 2017 erschienener Debütroman Ellbogen, der von einer Gewalteskalation in einer U-Bahn-Station handelt, spaltete die Kritik. Aydemirs 2022 erschienener zweiter Roman Dschinns lobte die Literaturkritikerin Meike Feßmann als „ein Wunderwerk an Präzisi -
Hannah Lühmann
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Verena Keßler
1988 in Hamburg geboren, 2008-2009 Ausbildung zur Werbetexterin an der Texterschmiede Hamburg, 2012-2015 Studium deutsche Literatur und germanistische Linguistik an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2016 bis 2020 Studium literarisches Schreiben am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig.
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“Die Gespenster von Demmin” erschien im August 2020 bei Hanser Berlin, wurde u.a. für den aspekte-Literaturpreis nominiert und mit dem Kranichsteiner Jugendliteratur-Stipendium ausgezeichnet, außerdem ins Polnische, Griechische & Französische übersetzt. Taschenbuchausgabe bei dtv. Mini-Serie in Entwicklung bei Oma Inge Film.
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Marion Poschmann
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Howard M. Halpern
Howard M. Halpern was an American psychotherapist and author who mainly wrote self-help books about severing or realigning burdensome relationships.
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Serving as president of the American Academy of Psychotherapists from 1970 to 1972, Halpern was a therapist for over fifty years. He died of leukemia on Christmas Day, 2011 at the age of 82. -
Khuê Pham
Khuê Pham ís a Vietnamese-German writer in Berlin. Her debut novel "Wo auch immer ihr seid" ("Brothers and Ghosts") is inspired by her Vietnamese family in Germany, California and Vietnam. For more than a decade, she has been working as a journalist for the German weekly "Die ZEIT". She is also a founding member of PEN Berlin and was a juror for the International Literature Award (for fiction translated into German) in 2023 and 2024.
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Shida Bazyar
Shida Bazyar (1988 in Hermeskeil) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.
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Solomon Perel
Solomon Perel was an author and motivational speaker. He was born in Peine, Lower Saxony, to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German. His life story is told in the 1990 film Europa, Europa based on his autobiography Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon.
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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 -
Sophie Morton-Thomas
Writer of literary thrillers. Currently studying at Cambridge University, UK.
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I live in West Sussex in the UK with my husband; I have three kids too and some cats. I'm an English teacher during the day when I'm not writing. I also love to write short stories and flash fictions and have been shortlisted in international competitions for these, as well as for the beginning of my debut novel, Travel by Night.
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By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly 'Literaturnaya Moskva'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscri -
Ramón Gener
Nacido en Barcelona. Licenciado en Humanidades y en Ciencias Empresariales. Comenzó su formación como músico estudiando piano en el Conservatorio del Liceu y la completó con Anna Maria Albors.
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Por recomendación de la soprano Victoria de los Ángeles comenzó a estudiar canto bajo su supervisión.
Completó sus estudios vocales en Varsovia con el barítono Jerzy Artysz y en Barcelona con el tenor Eduard Giménez. Después de una carrera de varios años como barítono dejó de cantar y comenzó una nueva etapa como divulgador musical ofreciendo conferencias sobre música "clásica" y ópera.
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Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967. His father fled from Hungary after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. After graduation, he studied history and politics in the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since then he has been a journalist for tabloids such as the Munich Abendzeitung and the Cologne Express among other newspapers. In 2007 he started to ghostwrite books, including a book by a so-called crime scene cleaner entitled What's Left Of Death.
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Verena Keßler
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Henrik Szanto
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Marion Dönhoff
Gräfin Marion Hedda Ilse von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 – 11 March 2002) was a German journalist who participated in the resistance against Hitler's National Socialists with Gräf Helmuth James von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg and Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of the leading German journalists and intellectuals. She worked over 55 years for the Hamburg-based, weekly newspaper Die Zeit, as an editor and later publisher.
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Zoë Beck
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Heike Geissler
Heike Geißler studied American culture, Geography and Politics in Dresden, Germany from 1996-1998.
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From 1998-2001 she studied German, Literature and Hispanic languages in Halle, Germany.
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Evan Tepest
Evan Hugo Tepest lebt als Autor in Berlin. Im August 2025 erscheint sein Essay Sind Penisse real? im Piper Verlag. 2024 erschien sein erster Roman Schreib den Namen deiner Mutter und 2023 sein Essayband Power Bottom. Seine Texte sind außerdem in Anthologien und Zeitschriften erschienen, zuletzt in ER: Erotic Review (London) und DANKE - Das Fan-Fiction-Magazin (Basel/Berlin).
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Ulla Lenze
Ulla Lenze, born in Mönchengladbach in 1973, studied Music and Philosophy in Cologne and now lives in Berlin and Buckow (Märkische Schweiz). Her debut novel Schwester und Bruder (Sister and Brother) has won several awards, including the Jürgen Ponto Prize for the best debut novel in 2003, the Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Förderpreis and the Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann-Competition. The novel Archanu was published in 2008, followed in 2012 by Der kleine Rest des Todes (What Little Remains of Death) and in 2015 by Die endlose Stadt (The Endless City), in which Lenze finds connections among the metropolises of Berlin, Istanbul and Mumbai. With her novel "The Radio Operator", based on the life story of her great-uncle, she achieved an
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Paula Irmschler
Paula Irmschler, 1989 in Dresden geboren, zog 2010 für ihr Studium nach Chemnitz. Nach fünf mehr oder weniger erfolgreichen Jahren ging sie nach Köln, arbeitete dort als Garderobiere und schrieb eine Kolumne für "Intro". Seitdem veröffentlichte sie Texte in „Jungle World“, "Missy Magazine“, laut.de, „Musikexpress“, „Jolie" und hat seit 2017 eine Kolumne bei "Neues Deutschland“, in der sie meist über feministische Themen schreibt. Im Herbst 2018 wurde sie bei "TITANIC" als Redakteurin eingestellt und konnte ihren Garderobenjob endlich an den Bügel hängen.
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Matthias Politycki
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Judith Holofernes
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She was the lead singer of Wir sind Helden, the German pop rock band that released the song "Guten Tag" in 2002. The band received critical acclaim owing in part to Holofernes' lyrics, which are characterized by their playful use of words and use of social criticism.
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Didi Drobna
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Didi won also some other literature prizes and grants, her first novel "Zwischen Schaumstoff" was awarded with the newcomer literature grant by the Austrian Ministry of Culture and was selected to be read in many Austrian schools.
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Lucie Faulerová
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Jemma Wayne
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Hans Rath
Hans Rath, Jahrgang 1965, studierte Philosophie, Germanistik und Psychologie in Bonn. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Berlin, wo er unter anderem als Drehbuchautor tätig ist. Mit der Romantrilogie «Man tut, was man kann», «Da muss man durch» und «Was will man mehr» hat Rath sich eine große Fangemeinde geschaffen. Zwei der Bücher wurden bereits fürs Kino verfilmt. «Und Gott sprach: Wir müssen reden» sowie «Manchmal ist der Teufel auch nur ein Mensch» wurden ebenfalls zu Bestsellern.
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