Mithu M. Sanyal
Mithu M. Sanyal is an award winning broadcaster, academic and author
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Bov Bjerg
Bov Bjerg ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Kabarettist. Sein bürgerlicher Name ist Rolf Böttcher. Sein Pseudonym wählte er nach der dänischen Stadt Bovbjerg.
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Bov Bjerg wuchs am Rande der Schwäbischen Alb auf. Er studierte Linguistik, Politik- und Literaturwissenschaften in Berlin und Amsterdam. Er ist Absolvent des Deutschen Literaturinstituts Leipzig. Um keinen Wehrdienst leisten zu müssen, zog Bov Bjerg 1984 nach Westberlin. Dort gründete er 1989 mit einigen Studienfreunden die Literaturzeitschrift Salbader. Zwischen 1989 und 1996 rief er mehrere Berliner Lesebühnen ins Leben: Dr. Seltsams Frühschoppen, Mittwochsfazit und die Reformbühne Heim & Welt. Bei verschiedenen Produktionen des Musikkabaretts Zwei Drittel arbeitete er als Schaus -
Sinthujan Varatharajah
Sinthujan Varatharajah lebt als freie*r Wissenschaftler*in und Essayist*in in Berlin, wo sie*er die Veranstaltungsreihe "dissolving territories: kulturgeographien eines neuen eelam" kuratiert. Sie*er studierte Politische Geographie und war mit der Forschungs- und Kunstinstallation "how to move an arche" Teil der 11. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst. 2017 –2018 war sie*er Vorstandsmitglied des Beirats für Asylfragen der Europäischen Kommission und arbeitete über mehrere Jahre hinweg für verschiedene Menschenrechtsorganisationen in London und Berlin.
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Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.
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Born in San Francisco, California to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, Janowitz moved to the East Coast of the United States to attend Barnard College and the Columbia University School of the Arts and started writing about life in New York City, where she had settled down.
She socialized with Andy Warhol and became well-known in New York's literary and social circles. Her 1986 collection of short stories, Slaves of New York brought her wider fame. Slaves of New York -
Nora Bossong
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.
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Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).
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Emilia Roig
Renowned social justice leader, author, and expert on intersectionality, diversity, equity, inclusion and non-discrimination Emilia Roig has been shifting the discourse on systemic inequalities in Europe through the creation of the Berlin-based Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), the publication of her book WHY WE MATTER, her numerous speaking engagements and her high-level consultancy services.
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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 -
Margarete Stokowski
Margarete Stokowski is a Polish-German writer and essayist, best known for her weekly essays for the magazine Spiegel Online, where she writes about the current state of feminism in Germany.
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Shida Bazyar
Shida Bazyar (1988 in Hermeskeil) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.
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Stefanie Sargnagel
Stefanie Sargnagel, geb. 1986, studierte in der von Daniel Richter angeleiteten Klasse der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Malerei, verbrachte aber mehr Zeit bei ihrem Brotjob im Call-Center, denn: «Immer wenn mein Professor Daniel Richter auf Kunststudentenpartys auftaucht, verhalten sich plötzlich alle so, als würde Gott zu seinen Jüngern sprechen. Ich weiß nie, wie ich damit umgehen soll, weil ich ja Gott bin.» Seit 2016 ist sie freie Autorin – und verbringt seitdem mehr Zeit bei ihrem Steuerberater.
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Olga Grjasnowa
Olga Grjasnowa was born in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan, grew up in the Caucasus, and has spent extended periods in Poland, Russia, and Israel. She moved to Germany at the age of twelve and is a graduate of the German institute for Literature/Creative Writing in Leipzig. In 2010 she was awarded the Dramatist Prize of the Wiener Wortstätten for her debut play, Mitfühlende Deutsche (Compassionate Germans).
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Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
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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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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. -
Kim de l'Horizon
KIM DE L’HORIZON, geboren 2666 auf Gethen. In der Spielzeit 21/22 war Kim Hausautorj an den Bühnen Bern. Vor dem Debüt ›Blutbuch‹ versuchte Kim mit Nachwuchspreisen attention zu erringen – u. a. mit dem Textstreich-Wettbewerb für ungeschriebene Lyrik, dem Treibhaus-Wettkampf für exotische Gewächse und dem Damenprozessor. Heute hat Kim aber genug vom »ICH«, studiert Hexerei bei Starhawk, Transdisziplinarität an der ZHdK und textet kollektiv im Magazin DELIRIUM. ›Blutbuch‹ wurde mit dem Literaturpreis der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung ausgezeichnet und gewann den Deutschen Buchpreis 2022.
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Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz (eigentlich Hans Gustav Bötticher) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Kabarettist und Maler, der vor allem für humoristische Gedichte um die Kunstfigur Kuttel Daddeldu bekannt ist. Er war bekannt zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik, stand an Popularität den Comedian Harmonists in nichts nach und zählte Schauspieler wie Asta Nielsen und Paul Wegener zu seinen engen Freunden und Weggefährten. Sein teils skurril, expressionistisch, witzig und geistreich geprägtes Werk ist noch heute bekannt.
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Mathias Énard
Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.
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Compass, which garnered Énard the renowned Prix Goncourt in 2015, traces the intimate connection between Western humanities and art history, and Islamic philosophy and culture. In one sentence that's over 500 pages long, Zone tells of the recent European past as a cascade of consequences of wars and conflicts.
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Walter Abish
Walter Abish was an American author of experimental novels and short stories.
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At a young age, his family fled from the Nazis, traveling first to Italy and Nice before settling in Shanghai from 1940 to 1949. In 1949, they moved to Israel, where Abish served in the army and developed an interest in writing. He moved to the United States in 1957 and became an American citizen in 1960. Since 1975, Abish has taught at several eastern universities and colleges. Abish received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 for his book How German Is It?. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Abish's work shows both imaginative and experimental elements. In Alphabetical Africa, for instance, the first chapter consists e -
Shida Bazyar
Shida Bazyar (1988 in Hermeskeil) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.
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Antonia Hayes
Antonia Hayes, who grew up in Sydney and spent her twenties in Paris, lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. Relativity is her first novel.
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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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Nora Bossong
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.
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Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).
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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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Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories; The Loss Library, a reflection on writing; and 101 Detectives, a collection of new short stories. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction by Yale University.
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Sharon Dodua Otoo
Sharon Dodua Otoo is a British writer, publicist and activist. In 2016 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her first short story in the German language. Otoo’s writing encompasses magical realism, Afrofuturism, identity issues, relationships and empowerment.
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Clemens Meyer
Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle an der Saale. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he became a published novelist.
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Meyer won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006,[2] in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2006.
His second book, Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), was translated by Katy Derbyshire and published by independent London publisher And Other Stories in 2011.[3] It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize -
Max Czollek
Max Czollek, geboren 1987, ist Autor und lebt in Berlin. Er ist Mitherausgeber des Magazins Jalta – Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart und seit 2021 Kurator der Coalition for a Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD) für eine plurale Erinnerungskultur. Er hat vier Gedichtbände publiziert, bei Hanser erschienen bisher seine vieldiskutierten Essays Desintegriert euch! (2018), Gegenwartsbewältigung (2020) und Versöhnungstheater (2023). 2022 war er Ideengeber und Kokurator der Ausstellung Rache. Geschichte und Fantasie am Jüdischen Museum Frankfurt, deren Begleitband ebenfalls bei Hanser erschien. Aktuell ist er Gastkurator am Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, wo er seit 2023 eine Gesprächsreihe hostet und ab 2024 das deutschlandweite Projekt heim
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Olivia Wenzel
Olivia Wenzel was born in Weimar, Germany, and now lives in Berlin. Her dramatic works have been staged in Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin. Wenzel also works as a musician and a performer. In 2022, she will lead a series of multidisciplinary workshops for young adults of color at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
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Wolfgang M. Schmitt
Wolfgang M. Schmitt betreibt unter dem Motto »Kino anders gedacht!« seit 2011 Die Filmanalyse auf YouTube. Mit Ole Nymoen spricht er in ihrem gemeinsamen Podcast Wohlstand für Alle über Geld sowie ökonomische Ideengeschichte und politische Ökonomie.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a German author. Among her novels are Pong (1998), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013.
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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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Nura Habib Omer
Nura Habib Omer (Arabic: نورا حبيب عمر) is a German rapper of Saudi-Arabian and Eritrean descent. She is known for being part of Die toten Crackhuren im Kofferraum and SXTN. Following the split of SXTN in 2018, she has pursued a solo career.
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Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946, in Malatya, Turkey), is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.
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Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the 1960s in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she currently resides. -
Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Sasha Marianna Salzmann ist Theaterautor:in, Essayist:in und Dramaturg:in. Für ihre Theaterstücke, die international aufgeführt werden, hat sie verschiedene Preise erhalten, zuletzt den Kunstpreis Berlin 2020. Ihr Debütroman Außer sich wurde 2017 mit dem Literaturpreis der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung und dem Mara-Cassens-Preis ausgezeichnet und stand auf der Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises. Er ist in sechzehn Sprachen übersetzt.
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Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig was born on 31 August 1941 in the small town of Meuselwitz in Saxony, Germany, about 40 kilometers south of Leipzig. Hilbig’s childhood in Meuselwitz, a target for Allied bombings during World War II and later the site for a thriving brown coal industry (much to the detriment of the environment) during the East German era, has had an influence on much of the writer’s work. Hilbig grew up with his mother and her parents in Meuselwitz, never having known his father, who was reported missing in 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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At first Hilbig favoured poetry, but his works
remained unpublished in the GDR. He received attention from the West however, as a result of his poems in the Anthology 'Cries For Help From The Other Si