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 t…
Ödön von Horváth was a German-writing, Austro-Hungarian-born, playwright and novelist. Important topics in Horváth's works were popular culture, politics and history. He especially tried to warn of th…
Born in Turin in 1972, Fabio Geda is an Italian novelist who works with children in difficulties. He writes for several Italian magazines and newspapers, and teaches creative writing in the most famou…
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…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
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 arbe…
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,…
Ilona Hartmann ist freie Autorin und Texterin. Geboren 1990 bei Stuttgart zog sie direkt nach dem Abitur erst nach Leipzig und dann nach Berlin, vor allem aber ins Internet, wo sie bis heute lebt. “La…
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 Eur…
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…
Nelio Biedermann ist am Zürichsee aufgewachsen. Seine Familie stammt väterlicherseits aus ungarischem Adel, seine Großeltern flohen in den 1950er Jahren in die Schweiz. Biedermann studiert Germanistik…
