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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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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Karsten Dusse
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Seine Romane wurden bislang in 21 Sprachen übersetzt und stehen regelmäßig an der Spitze der Bestsellerlisten. Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Arbeit mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis, dem Deutschen Comedypreis und dem Deutschen Hörbuchpreis. Seine Hörbücher haben Gold- und Platin-Status erreicht. -
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope (Greek: Διογένης ὁ Σινωπεύς, Diogenēs ho Sinōpeus) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogenēs ho Kunikos), he was born in Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey), an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE.
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Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure. His father minted coins for a living, and when Diogenes took to debasement of currency, he was banished from Sinope. After being exiled, he moved to Athens to debunk cultural conventions. Diogenes modelled himself on the example of Hercules. He believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. He used his simple lifestyl -
Kristen Roupenian
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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My primary field of study is postcolonial and transnational literatures, with an emphasis on contemporary African fiction. My dissertation, -
Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow (bulgarisch Илия Троянов) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Verleger bulgarischer Abstammung.
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Teri Terry
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John Jay Osborn Jr.
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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. -
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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Lisa O'Donnell
Lisa O’Donnell winner of The Orange Prize for New Screenwriters with her screenplay The Wedding Gift in 2000. Lisa was also nominated for the Dennis Potter New Writers Award in the same year. She moved to Los Angeles with her family in 2006, penning her first novel The Death of Bees in 2010. Published to critical acclaim by Windmill Books in 2012 The Death of Bees will be published in the US by Harper Collins January 2013. The author is very excited!
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John P. Strelecky
John Strelecky is the #1 Bestselling inspirational author of many books including; The Cafe on the Edge of the World, Return to the Why Cafe, What I've Learned, The Big Five for Life, The Big Five for Life - Continued, Life Safari, and Ahas!- Moments of Inspired Thought. He co-authored the book, How to be Rich and Happy.
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His works have been translated into forty-five languages and sold more than 11 million copies worldwide.
Following a life changing event when he was thirty-three years old, John was inspired to sit down and tell the story of The Cafe on the Edge of the World, his first book.
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Matthew Johnstone
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Ernest Callenbach
Ernest Callenbach was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent. He became famous due to his internationally successful semi-utopian novel Ecotopia.
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Jörn Leonhard
Jörn Leonhard is Professor of West European History at the University of Freiburg.
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Petra Hammesfahr
Hailed as Germany’s Patricia Highsmith, Petra Hammesfahr has written more than twenty crime and suspense novels, and also writes scripts for film and television. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize. Her breakthrough novel, The Sinner, was a major critical and commercial success internationally, including in Germany, where it stayed on the bestseller list for more than fifteen months. The Sinner has been adapted for television as a limited series on USA starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman.
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Frederic Manning
Manning was born in 1882 in Sydney, Australia, and whose father was a one-time mayor. Educated privately, he was thereafter sent to England to complete his studies.
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In the immediate pre-war years Manning established a reputation as a minor poet and critic among a small circle of intimates.
With the outbreak of war in August 1914 Manning enlisted as a Private with the 7th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, serving in the trenches in France among some of the more bloody battles of the war.
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Daniele Ganser
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Daniele Ganser was Senior Researcher at the ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies (CSS). He was president (2006-2012) of the Swiss branch of the "Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas" (ASPO), and taught a course (2012-2017) titled History and Future of Energy Systems at the University of St. Gallen.
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Tash Skilton
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Thomas Brussig
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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. -
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-Austrian author.
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His novel Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin. -
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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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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Lea-Lina Oppermann
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi
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Jack Nasher
Jack Nasher gives presentations and trainings on communication and negotiation worldwide. He is the founder of the NASHER Negotiation Institute and has been named “the leading negotiation expert” and the “best known expert on deception detection” by leading news sources. His clients include national and international corporations and service providers. Jack Nasher studied law, philosophy, psychology and business at Oxford University (among others), where he also taught. Currently he is the professor for Leadership & Organization at Munich Business School. His books were on Germany’s national bestseller list for months and were published in Russia, Korea, China etc. Articles by and about him have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the
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Mechtild Borrmann
Mechtild Borrmann (born 1960 in Cologne) is a German author of crime novels. She now lives in Bielefeld.
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Ralf Rothmann
Ralf Rothmann wurde am 10.05.1953 in Schleswig geboren und wuchs im Ruhrgebiet auf. Nach der Volksschule (und einem kurzen Besuch der Handelsschule) machte er eine Maurerlehre, arbeitete mehrere Jahre auf dem Bau und danach in verschiedenen Berufen (unter anderem als Drucker, Krankenpfleger und Koch). Er lebt seit 1976 in Berlin.
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Gay Talese
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Elli H. Radinger
Elli H. Radinger is a German free journalist and author.
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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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Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner (the pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) was a German journalist and author whose focus was the history of the German Reich (1871-1945). His books dealt with the origins and course of the First World War, the failure of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise and fall of Nazi Germany under Hitler.
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In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, hardly able to speak English but becoming rapidly proficient in the language. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family back in Germany would not be endangered by his writing.
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Tanja Kinkel
Mit acht Jahren begann Tanja Kinkel, Geschichten und Gedichte zu schreiben. 1978 gewann sie einen Jugendliteraturpreis und 1979 schrieb sie ihren ersten Roman.
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Ab 1988 studierte sie Germanistik, Theater- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München. 1991 bekam Tanja Kinkel ein Stipendium an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in München; Ausbildung zum Drehbuchautor. 1992 folgte ein Förderpreis des Freistaates Bayern für junge Schriftsteller. 1995 hatte sie einen Förderaufenthalt des deutschen Innenministeriums in der "Casa Baldi" in Olevano Romano bei Rom und erhielt 1996 ein Stipendium in der Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
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Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson was born in the Bronx on 8 August. He grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York where he graduated high school in 1987. His first job upon graduation was washing dishes in a gourmet deli and it was while working there he decided that maybe college was a pretty good idea afterall.
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He spent one year at SUNY Brockport and then transferred to an art school in New York City, where he majored in cartooning. Among his teachers were Will Eisner, Andre LeBlanc, Sal Amendola and Gahan Wilson. In his sophomore year he got a job at a bookstore, where he continued to work for seven long years.
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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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Wilhelm Schmid
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Wilhelm Schmid ist ein deutscher Philosoph mit dem Schwerpunkt auf dem Gebiet der Lebenskunstphilosophie.
Nach einer Kindheit und Jugend in bäuerlicher Umgebung (seine Eltern waren Landwirte und hatten sechs Kinder), einer Lehre als Schriftsetzer und vier Jahren bei der Bundeswehr holte Wilhelm Schmid am Augsburger Bayernkolleg 1980 das Abitur nach. Von 1977 bis 1980 war er in Augsburg Vorsitzender der dortigen Jungdemokraten, der damaligen Jugendorganisation der FDP. 1980 begann er ein Studium von Philosophie und Geschichte an der Freien Universität Berlin, der Pariser Sorbonne und der Universität Tübingen, das er 1991 mit einer Doktorarbeit über Michel Foucault abschloss.
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Howard Falco
Howard Falco is the author of the new book on human understanding and potential titled, I AM: The Power of Discovering Who You Really Are (Penguin Group Sep. 2010). He is a spiritual teacher and speaker specializing in the power of the mind as it relates to the creation of the experience of life and breaking through any perceived personal limitations.
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On the surface Howard seems to be the everyday regular guy. However, after asking some of the "big" questions in life, in 2002 at age 35, in the middle of ordinary life, this married father of two went through dramatic shift in consciousness that revealed the answers to these questions and more about life than he ever imagined knowing. The dramatic depth and breadth of this shift in consciousn -
Natascha Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch is an Austrian girl known for her abduction at the age of 10 on 2 March 1998. She was held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.
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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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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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Carlo Masala
Carlo Masala is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, and lecturer as well as member of the senate of the Munich School of Political Science. He has become known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as an expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, publishing predictions and hypotheticals on future military operations, like the Narva scenario.
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Dorothy Tennov
Dorothy Jane Tennow known as Dorothy Tennov, was an American psychologist who, in her 1979 book, Love and Limerence – the Experience of Being in Love, introduced the term "limerence".
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Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный) was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing anti-government demonstrations and running for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny has been described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most" by The Wall Street Journal. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg (AKA W. Heisenberg) was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. In addition, he made important contributions to nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and particle physics.
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He won the 1932 Nobel prize in physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen". -
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe".
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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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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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Ijoma Mangold
Ijoma Mangold, born in 1971, studied literature and philosophy in Munich and Bologna. He is currently the managing editor for literature at Germany's leading weekly newspaper, "Die Zeit".
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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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Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel was a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
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Bichsel was born in 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers. Shortly after he was born, the Bichsels moved to Olten, also in Switzerland. After finishing school, he became an elementary school teacher, a job he held until 1968. From 1974 to 1981 he was the personal advisor and speech writer of Willy Ritschard, a member of the Swiss Federal Council. Between 1972 and 1989 he made his mark as a "writer in residence" and a guest lecturer at American universities. Bichsel lived on the outskirts of Solothurn for several decades.
He started publishing short lyric works in newspapers. In 1960, he got hi -
Brigitte Reimann
Brigitte Reimann (1933 - 1973) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel, Franziska Linkerhand.
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Brigitte Reimann wrote her first amateur play at the age of fifteen. In 1950 she was awarded the first prize in an amateur drama comeptition by the Berlin theater Volksbühne. After graduating, Reimann worked as teacher, bookseller and reporter. After a miscarriage in 1954, she attempted suicide. In 1960, she started to work at the brown coal mine Schwarze Pumpe, where she and her second husband Siegfried Pitschmann headed a circle of writing workers. There, she writes the narrative Ankunft im Alltag, which is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism.
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Sönke Neitzel
Sönke Neitzel is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War.
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Neitzel was educated at the University of Mainz and is currently Professor of Military History at the University of Potsdam, having moved there from the London School of Economics in 2015. He has also held posts at the University of Karlsruhe, University of Bern, and the University of Saarbrücken in Germany and Switzerland, and was briefly Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow in 2011/12.
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Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart was born and educated in Ireland. She was a director of Haymarket Publishing, in London, before going on to produce a number of West End plays, including The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorea, The Vortex by Noel Coward, and The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch. She was married to Maurice Saatchi and had two sons. She was the author of Damage. Hart died, aged 69, of ovarian cancer in June 2011.
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Mary Miller
Biloxi, Always Happy Hour, The Last Days of California, Big World
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Stories in Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Short Fiction, New Stories from the South, Oxford American, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, and Mississippi Review.
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Sibylle Berg
Sibylle Berg was born at and spent her childhood in Weimar where she also worked as a puppeteer until moving to the West in 1984. She studied briefly at the Dimitri theatre school in Ticino and then had various jobs. She began to write, published her first articles and reportage, and was a columnist for the "Zeit-Magazin". Her first book appeared in 1997, and other novels and stories followed. "Helges Leben" was her first play. Sibylle Berg lives in Zurich.
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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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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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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. -
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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Three current book recommendations: "Girl, woman other" by Bernardine Evaristo. "Effingers" by Gabriele Tergit. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and T -
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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Veit Heinichen
Veit Heinichen, né en 1957, a été journaliste, éditeur puis cofondateur de la maison d'édition Berlin Verlag en 1994. Amoureux de la ville de Trieste depuis sa première visite en 1980, il y vit désormais comme journaliste et écrivain.
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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 -
Louis Malle
Louis Malle was an Academy Award nominated French film director, working in both French and English.
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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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Martin Sonneborn
German satirist and member of the European parliament.
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Sonneborn became head editor of the satire magazine "Titanic".
In 2004 he founded the party "Die Partei" which would be denied in competing for elections in 2009.
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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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Mascha Kaléko
Mascha Kaléko war eine deutschsprachige, der Neuen Sachlichkeit zugerechnete Dichterin.
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Charakteristisch für Mascha Kalékos Arbeit ist die Großstadtlyrik mit ironisch-zärtlichem, melancholischem Ton. Als einzige bekannte weibliche Dichterin der Neuen Sachlichkeit wurde sie häufig mit ihren männlichen Kollegen verglichen, so bezeichnete man sie als „weiblichen Ringelnatz“ oder nannte sie einen „weiblichen Kästner“. Die auch Montagsgedichte genannten Strophen rühren durch ihre schnörkellose und direkte Sprache an. Ihre Gedichte wurden – als Chansons vertont – von Diseusen wie Hanne Wieder gesungen oder werden von Sängern wie Rainer Bielfeldt noch heute vorgetragen. -
Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politician and former comedian and actor who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019.
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Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued a career in comedy and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely -
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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The Shadow Bird is Ann's debut novel. Her second novel, The Double, will be published by Legend Press in 2021. -
Zoë Beck
Zoë Beck is the pseudonym commonly used by Henrike Heiland, a German author, translator and publisher.
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Alexander Volkov
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The first of these books, The Wizard of the Emerald City, is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie" and Oz is renamed "Magic Land"), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones.
First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story. From 1963 to 1970, four more books in the series were published, with th -
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. -
Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal fue un poeta, dramaturgo, novelista y ensayista argentino, autor de Adán Buenosayres, una de las más importantes novelas de la literatura argentina.
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Fue bibliotecario, maestro, profesor de enseñanza secundaria y en la década del 20 formó parte de la generación que se nucleó alrededor de la revista Martín Fierro. En la primera etapa de su vida literaria prevaleció la poesía.
La publicación de Adán Buenosayres en 1948, exceptuando el comentario elogioso de Julio Cortázar y algunas otras voces entusiastas, pasó en principio completamente inadvertida. Las cuestiones políticas no fueron ajenas a los motivos, considerando la abierta simpatía del escritor hacia el peronismo, en cuyo gobierno siguió trabajando en el campo de la educ -
Robin Kramer
Robin Kramer (1990) is schrijver. Zijn korte verhalen verschenen onder andere in De Revisor, Tirade, Papieren Helden en Kluger Hans. Hij schreef over film en beeldende kunst voor rekto:verso, HART Magazine en Humbug Magazine. Voor Museumtijdschrift maakt hij de podcast De aanwinst, in samenwerking met Vereniging Rembrandt. Achtertuinen is zijn literaire debuut. Voor de fameuze Kleurenreeks van Oevers werkt hij aan Karmozijn. Robin woont en werkt in Zwolle.
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Robin Kramer (1990) is a writer. His short stories have appeared in De Revisor, Tirade, Papieren Helden, and Kluger Hans. He has written about film and visual arts for rekto:verso, HART Magazine, and Humbug Magazine. For Museumtijdschrift, he creates the podcast De aanwinst, in collaborati -
Claire Hajaj
Claire Hajaj has spent her life building bridges between two worlds, sharing both Palestinian and Jewish heritage. She has lived on four continents and worked for the United Nations in war zones from Burma to Baghdad. A former contributor to the BBC World Service, Claire’s writing has also appeared in Time Out and Literary Review. She lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
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David Garnett
David Garnett, known as "Bunny", was an English writer and publisher. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel Lady into Fox, an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. He wrote the novel Aspects of Love (1955), on which the later Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical was based.
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He was the son of Richard Garnett. His first wife was the illustrator and author Ray Garnett (née Marshall) with whom he had two sons including Richard Garnett. His second wife was Angelica Bell. His mother was the translator Constance Ga -
Horst Evers
Horst Evers is the stage and pen name of Gerd Winter, a German author and comedian.
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Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer ist Direktor des Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Forschungsprofessor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
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"Der Spiegel" stellte ihn im August 2007 in seiner Serie herausragender Wissenschaftler als "produktiven Quergeist" einem breiten Publikum vor.
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Michel Friedman
Michel Julien Friedman is a German lawyer, publicist, political commentator, and author.
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He is a well-known public figure in Germany, and was vice-chair of the Central Council of Jews in Germany from 2000 to 2003. -
Mirjam Pressler
German writer Mirjam Pressler is the author of several novels that have won awards in her native Germany and also received high praise from critics after being translated into English. In Malka and Halinka Pressler focuses on young Jewish protagonists who have been forced by fate to endure the Holocaust, while in Shylock's Daughter she returns readers to fifteenth-century Italy as she attempts to answer haunting questions surrounding the motivations of characters in a popular play by William Shakespeare. While receiving notice for her novels, Pressler is most well known for her work revising the diaries of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, and she is considered an expert on Franks's life and writings. In addition to translating Frank's
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Michael Lüders
Michael Lüders ist ein deutscher Politik- und Islamwissenschaftler, der als Publizist sowie Politik- und Wirtschaftsberater tätig ist.
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Fatou Diome
Fatou Diome est née en 1968 sur la petite île de Niodior, dans le delta du Saloum, au sud-ouest du Sénégal. Elle est élevée par sa grand-mère.
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Contrairement à ce qu'exigent les traditions de sa terre natale, elle côtoie les hommes plutôt que d'aller aider les femmes à préparer les repas et assurer les tâches ménagères. Toujours en décalage avec le microcosme de l'île, elle décide d'aller à l'école et apprend le français. Sa grand-mère met un certain temps à accepter le fait qu'elle puisse être éduquée : la petite Fatou doit aller à l'école en cachette jusqu'à ce que son instituteur parvienne à convaincre son aïeule de la laisser poursuivre. Elle se passionne alors pour la littérature francophone.
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Hans Woller
Hans Woller (* 22. Februar 1952 in Aldersbach) ist ein deutscher Historiker. Er forscht vor allem über Themen der deutschen und italienischen Zeitgeschichte. Seine wissenschaftliche Biographie ist eng mit dem Münchner Institut für Zeitgeschichte verbunden.
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Woller studierte von 1972 bis 1979 Bayerische Geschichte, Neuere Geschichte, Germanistik und Politologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Nach der Promotion 1979 mit der Arbeit „Die Loritz-Partei: Geschichte, Struktur und Politik der Wirtschaftlichen Aufbau-Vereinigung (WAV) 1945–1955“ war er ab 1980 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Zeitgeschichte. 1985 folgte ein dreijähriger Aufenthalt am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom. Nach seiner Rückkehr 1988 ans In -
Jan Costin Wagner
Jan Costin Wagner is a German crime fiction writer. His novels are set in Finland and feature detective Kimmo Joentaa.
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Wagner studied German Literature and History at university in Frankfurt, and later worked as a journalist. His first novel, "Nachtfahrt" (Night Trip) was published to much acclaim in 2002 and won the Marlowe Prize for Best Crime Novel. His wife is a native of Finland, and they spend time both there and in Germany.His 2007 novel The Silence (German: Das Schweigen) has been adapted to a 2010 German film of the same name in English; the original name of the film in German is Das letzte Schweigen, i.e. The last Silence. -
Rainer Mausfeld
Rainer Mausfeld is a German cognitive psychologist and former professor of psychology at the University of Kiel.
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Gregor Gysi
German politician for The Left party.
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In the German Democratic Republic he was active as an lawyer and belonged to the reformist camp of the state party SED.
After the fall of the GDR he became a prominent member of SED's succesor party PDS which later became The Left.
Since 2016 he is the chairman of the Party of the European Left. -
Alexander Wendt
Alexander Wendt is Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1989. Wendt taught previously at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Chicago, before coming to OSU in 2004.
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Wendt is interested in philosophical aspects of social science, with special reference to international relations. He is most well-known for his work on constructivism in world politics, including Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge, 1999), which received the International Studies Association’s “Best Book of the Decade” award in 2006.
In 2017 Wendt was named the most influential scholar in International Relations over -
Rafik Schami
Born in Damascus, Syria in 1946, Rafik Schami (Arabic: رفيق شامي) is the son of a baker from an Arab-Christian (originally Aramaic) family. His schooling and university studies (diploma in chemistry) took place in Damascus. From 1965, Schami wrote stories in Arabic. From 1964-70 he was the co-founder and editor of the wall news-sheet Al-Muntalak (The Starting-Point) in the old quarter of the city. In 1971 Schami moved to Heidelberg and financed further studies by typical guest worker jobs (factories, building sites, restaurants). He earned his doctorate in chemistry in 1979 and began career in the chemical industry. In his spare time, he co-founded the literary group Südwind in 1980 and was part of the PoLiKunst movement. Schami became a fu
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Luna Darko
Luna F. Darko (auch bekannt als kitthey / lulu / kittischnitti) ist 1991 in Deutschland geboren und ein Kind des Internets. Sie gehört zum 2015 gegründeten Künstlerkollektiv HYDRA CLIQUE CREATIVE COSMOS und zum Musiklabel CYBER-GEN. Luna kann sich an keine Zeit erinnern, in der sie nicht gemalt, geschrieben, gesungen, fotografiert oder gefilmt hat. Sie ist mit dem freien Internet aufgewachsen, hat es entdeckt und geformt, war (wie die meisten ihrer Generation) auf diversen sozialen Netzwerken angemeldet und hat ihre Gedanken und Ästhetik mit der Welt geteilt - dort hat sie auch ihre besten Freunde kennengelernt und als hydra_ccc erreichen sie online mittlerweile so viele Menschen, dass sie sich gemeinsam durch ihre Kunst finanzieren können.
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Bernhard Jaumann
Bernhard Jaumann wurde 1957 in Augsburg geboren. Er studierte an der Universität München und arbeitete danach als Gymnasiallehrer für Deutsch, Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Italienisch, unterbrochen von längeren Auslandsaufenthalten in Italien, Australien, Mexico und zuletzt Namibia. Zur Zeit lebt er in Bad Aibling/Bayern und in Montesecco/Italien.
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Ab 1997 schrieb er eine Krimiserie, deren einzelne Bände jeweils einen der fünf Sinne zum Thema haben und in einer anderen Metropole spielen. Danach machte er das kleine italienische Dorf Montesecco zum Schauplatz einer erfolgreichen Krimitrilogie. Seine neuesten Werke um die Windhoeker Polizeiinspektorin Clemencia Garises sind im südlichen Afrika angesiedelt. -
Mark Benecke
Mark Benecke is a German forensic biologist and medical examiner.
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He was formerly married to Lydia Benecke. -
Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian (born 1949 in Paris) is a popular French author of Armenian descent.
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Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 (1981), and then the novels Bleu comme l'enfer (1982) and Zone érogène (1984) before gaining fame with his subsequent novels 37°2 le matin (1985) which was filmed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (1986; English title Betty Blue), Maudit Manège (1986), Echine (1988), Crocodiles (short stories) (1989), Lent dehors (1991), Sotos (1993), and Assassins (1994). -
Alex Canna
Growing up in South Africa and the USA, I studied psychology and philosophy before becoming a windsurfing entrepreneur, a reluctant intelligence officer (working in a slowly decomposing nuclear bunker) and an advertising writer. I now live in Pembrey on the South Wales coast.
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Philipp Mattheis
Philipp Mattheis is a journalist and author of three books. He was born outside of Munich, studied philosophy and journalism, and now lives in Shanghai where he is the China correspondent of the German BusinessWeek. Formerly editor of the largest daily newspaper in Germany, he also writes for other publications, including Neon, Geo, and GQ.
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Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947 in Bignasco, Canton Ticino) is a Swiss lawyer and diplomat. From 1994 to 1998 she was Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation. From 1999 to 2007 she was chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and parallel from 1999 to 2003 chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha. From 2008 to 2011 she was Swiss Ambassador to Argentina.
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From 2011 to 2017 she was a member of a commission (IICISyria) set up by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate human rights violations in Syria in the civil war there. -
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (born 20 December 1924 in Vienna) is an Austrian poet. From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.
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She started writing as a 15-year-old. In 1946, she meet Otto Basil who published some of her first works in his avant-garde journal Plan. Mayröcker's poems were published a few years later by renowned literary critic Hans Weigel. She was eventually introduced to the Wiener Gruppe, a group of mostly surrealist and expressionist Austrian authors.
Friederike Mayröcker is recognized as one of the most important contemporary Austrian poets. She also had success with her prose and radio plays. Four of the