William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is a Polish-American journalist and writer. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has work…
Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received s…
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 trainees…
Born in 1965, Robin Alexander grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she still resides. An avid reader of Lesbian fiction, Robin decided to take the leap and try her hand at writing. It didn't take l…
Robert Habeck is a German politician (MdB, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and writer. Since January 27, 2018, he has been the federal chairman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party, together with Annalena Baerbo…
Carlo Masala is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, an…
Uwe Wittstock (b. 1955) is a literary critic and writer, he was editor of "Focus", he has worked as literary editor for the FAZ, as editor at S. Fischer and as deputy head of feature pages and cultura…
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glosse…
Stephan Orth, Jahrgang 1979, verfasste als Sechsjähriger sein erstes Buch mit dem Titel "Die 10 Soldaten" (bislang unveröffentlicht). Später Studium der Fächer Anglistik, Psychologie und Journalismus.…
Mariana Leky studierte nach einer Buchhandelslehre Kulturjournalismus an der Universität Hildesheim. 2004 erschien ihr erster Roman Erste Hilfe. 2017 erschien ihr Roman Was man von hier aus sehen kann…
Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbi…
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…
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 kapitalis…
Ferdinand von Schirach (born 1964 in Munich) is a German lawyer and writer. He published his first short stories at the age of forty-five. Shortly thereafter he became one of Germany's most successful…
Dirk Oschmann är professor i nyare tysk litteratur vid universitetet i Leipzig. Han är född och uppvuxen i DDR. Tidigare har han utgivit bland annat följande böcker: Friedrich Schiller: Eine kleine…
