May Ayim (3 May 1960 in Hamburg – 9 August 1996 in Berlin) is the pen name of May Opitz (born Sylvia Adler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German mother and Ghana…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has…
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 deci…
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul…
Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up…
Daniela Dröscher, Jahrgang 1977, aufgewachsen in Rheinland-Pfalz, lebt in Berlin. Promotion im Fach Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Potsdam sowie ein Diplom in »Szenischem Schreiben« an der Univ…
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…
Senthuran Varatharajah, geboren 1984 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, studierte Philosophie, evangelische Theologie und vergleichende Religions- und Kulturwissenschaft in Marburg, Berlin und London. 2016 erschie…
Sophie Passmann, 1994 geboren, ist Autorin, Satirikerin und Moderatorin. Ihr Buch »Alte weiße Männer« stand wochenlang auf der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerliste, »Komplett Gänsehaut« und »Pick me Girls« stiegen…
Fatma Bahar Aydemir (* 1986 in Karlsruhe) ist eine deutsche Journalistin und Schriftstellerin. Fatma Aydemir wuchs in einem Vorort von Karlsruhe auf. Ihre Großeltern kamen als kurdisch-türkische Gastar…
Alice Hasters (born 1989 in Cologne, Germany) is a German journalist, author, and podcaster. She studied journalism at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the German School of Journalism. She h…
Seyda Kurt, geboren 1992 in Köln, studierte Philosophie, Romanistik und Kulturjournalismus in Köln, Bordeaux und Berlin und ist Journalistin und Moderatorin. Sie schreibt unter anderem für taz. Die Ta…
"Dipo Faloyin is a Senior Editor at VICE, where he focuses on race, culture, and identity around the world. His writing has also appeared in Dazed, Prospect, Huffington Post, and Refinery 29 among oth…
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…
