“What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness.” This sentence from …
Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the co…
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 boo…
Ilse Aichinger (born 1 November 1921) is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. Aichinger was born in 1921 in Vienna, along with her t…
Maxie Wander wurde als Kind einer kommunistischen Familie im Wiener Arbeiterbezirk Hernals geboren. Sie hätte als erste ihrer Familie Abitur machen sollen, ging jedoch mit 17 Jahren von der Schule ab.…
Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nom…
Dorothee Elmiger is a Swiss writer. She presently lives in Switzerland. Elmiger is considered one of the most promising young Swiss writers, especially after winning the second Ingeborg Bachmann Prize…
Barbi Marković (b. 1980) is a Serbian writer. She studied German literature at University in Belgrade. She moved to Vienna, Austria in 2006. In 2009, Marković caused a sensation with the Thomas Bernha…
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, a…
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,…
Jasmin Schreiber, geboren 1988, ist studierte Biologin und arbeitet als Schriftstellerin. Ihr Roman MARIANENGRABEN war eines der erfolgreichsten Debüts 2020. Im Wissenschaftspodcast BUGTALES.FM erzähl…
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 litera…
Ruth-Maria Thomas, born in 1993 and raised in Cottbus, worked as a social worker in youth services. She studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and is a co-founder of the erotic literatu…
Jenifer Becker (*1988) ist eine in Berlin lebende Autorin, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin. Sie schreibt über Ambivalenzen des Digitalen, Gegenwartsphänomene und Popkultur. Ihr Debütroman „Zeit…
Gisèle Pelicot (French: [ʒizɛl peliko]; née Guillou, born 7 December 1952) is a French woman who became a feminist icon in 2024, when she waived her right to anonymity as the victim in a multiple rape…
