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Jamie Susskind

Jamie Susskind is an author and barrister. He studied history and politics at Oxford University. He later studied law and was appointed as a research fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Jamie practises law at Littleton Chambers.

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Robert Schnakenberg

Robert Schnakenberg has been called "the Howard Zinn of nerd pop culture." He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Old Man Drinks, Christopher Walken A-to-Z, Secret Lives of Great Authors, and the New York Times bestseller The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray. His work has appeared in Penthouse.

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Heather E. Heying

Heather E. Heying (Heying, rhymes with "flying") is an American evolutionary biologist and author. She co-hosts the DarkHorse Podcast with her husband and fellow evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein and writes a newsletter called Natural Selections on Substack.

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Franz Kafka

Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.

His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).

Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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Bob Woodward

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Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein, helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation. Woodward has written 12 best-selling non-fiction books and has twice contributed reporting to efforts that collectively earned the Post and its National Reporting staff a Pulitzer Prize.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.

From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Piscator and Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.

Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.

He was a proponent of epic theate

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman and politician, and served as the 38th Governor of the state of California.

Arnold gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. Schwarzenegger was nicknamed "The Austrian Oak" and "The Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnold Strong" and "Arnie" during his acting career, and more recently "The Governator" (A portmanteau word of Governor and Terminator, one of his film roles).

As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in

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Gary Keller

Professionally, Gary’s ONE Thing is teaching. He excelled as a real estate salesperson by teaching clients how to make great buying and selling decisions. As a real estate sales manager, he recruited agents through training and helped them build careers the same way. As co-founder and chairman of the board, he built Keller Williams Realty International from a single office in Austin, Texas, to one of the largest real estate companies in the world by using his skills as a teacher, trainer, and coach. Gary defines leadership as “teaching people how to think the way they need to think so they can do what they need to do when they need to do it, so they can get what they want when they want it.”

An Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and fina

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John C. Bogle

John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (born May 8, 1929) is the founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group. He is known for his 1999 book Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor, which became a bestseller and is considered a classic.
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Sebastian Fitzek

Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the traineeship at a private radio station he switched to the competition as head of entertainment and became chief editor later on, thereafter becoming an independent executive consultant and format developer for numerous media companies in Europe. He lives in Berlin and is currently working in the programme management of a major capital radio station.

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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

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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.

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.

Within a year after its release, word of mouth support from readers had spread the book across the globe--inspiring people on every continent, including

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Dieter Nuhr

Dieter Nuhr is a German comedian. From 1981 to 1989, Nuhr studied art and history at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. From 1982 to 1987 he attended the University of Duisburg-Essen as teacher.

From 1982 to 1992, he was an active artist. His works were exhibited in the Rhineland. In 1987 he appeared as a cabarettist for the first time and starting in 1992, he worked as a professional cabarettist; he arranged his first solo stage program. He became famous for his numerous television appearances in the past few years appearing in Quatsch Comedy Club (Channel Pro7) and 7 Tage - 7 Köpfe (lit. 7 days - 7 heads),Channel RTL. Today, he lives in Ratingen, Northrhine-Westphalia.

Nuhr is regarded as a mediator between classical comedy and new intelligent

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Hermann Hesse

Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great

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Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.

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Gabor Maté

Dr Gabor Maté (CM) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health.

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he is a survivor of the Nazi genocide. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old, his aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazis.

He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1957. After graduating with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a few years as a high school English and literature teacher, he returned to school to

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Cristina Campos

Cristina Campos nace en Barcelona en 1975. Es licenciada en Humanidades por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Acaba sus estudios en la Universidad alemana de Heidelberg, donde también trabaja como coordinadora del Festival Internacional de Cine de dicha ciudad. Tras regresar a su país natal empieza su carrera laboral en el sector cinematográfico, profesión que compagina con la escritura. Desde hace diez años, se dedica a la dirección de casting de largometrajes y series de televisión.

Su primera novela, Pan de limón con semillas de amapola, se ha convertido en un longseller con más de 250.000 ejemplares vendidos desde su publicación en 2016. Se ha traducido a diez idiomas y su adaptación cinematográfica logró un gran éxito de público.

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Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych konkursach na Historyczną Książkę Roku (im. K. Moczarskiego i O. Haleckiego), cenionej biografii Kazimiery Iłłakowiczówny Iłła (Marginesy 2017), nominowanej do Nagrody im. Józefa Łukaszewicza, oraz bestsellerowej książki Służące do wszystkiego (Marginesy 2018), która znalazła się na liście dziesięciu najważniejszych książek 2018 roku dwumiesięcznika "Książki. Magazyn do Czytania" i dostała nominację do Nagrody Historycznej "Polityki" oraz Nagrody "Newsweeka" im. T. Torańskiej. Jej najnowsza książka Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Marginesy

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Kurt Krömer

Kurt Krömer, alias Alexander Bojcan, wurde 1974 geboren und ist Komiker und Schauspieler. Er ist vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis und dem Grimme-Preis. Seine Sendung »Chez Krömer« läuft im rbb und auf YouTube und wird millionenfach geguckt. Zuletzt war er in der Comedy-Show »LOL – Last one laughing« zu sehen.

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Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" (a finalist for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards) and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." (nominated for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards)

He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

Nir blogs regularly at NirAndFar.com

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Karsten Dusse

KARSTEN DUSSE, Jahrgang 1973, Rechtsanwalt, Studium in Bonn, Lausanne und Los Angeles. Nach erfolgreicher Tätigkeit als Drehbuch- und Sachbuchautor wurde sein Debütroman Achtsam morden zum meistverkauften Taschenbuch des Jahres 2020.

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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Theresa Hannig

Theresa Hannig was born in 1984 in Munich, Germany. She studied Political Sciences, Economics and Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

She worked as SAP consultand, project manager for solar power plants and light designer.

In 2016 Theresa Hannig won the Stefan-Lübbe-Preis and with it a contract for her first novel "Die Optimierer".

In March 2018 "Die Optimierer" was awarded with the Seraph 2018 for the best debut novel.

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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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Bruce Greyson

Bruce Greyson, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, is one of the world's leading experts on near-death experiences, and author of “After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond.”

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Shiro Kuroi

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Kannosuke Hiramatsu (平松歓之介)
Honorable Mention in Winter 2007 and the grand-prize winner in Summer 2008 of the Afternoon Four Seasons Award under the pen-name Kannosuke Hiramatsu.

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Manfred Spitzer

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