Axel Bauni Axel Bauni has been a Professor of the Contemporary “Lied” at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2007. The well-known pianist studied at the Mannheim/Heidelberg University of Music as well as with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is the interpreter and initiator of numerous first performances of “Lieder” by Hans Werner Henze, Matthias Pintscher and Wolfgang Rihm, among others. Together with Reimann, he is both the publisher of and pianist ... more
Canan Bayram Canan Bayram (born 1966, Malatya, Turkey) is a member of the Berlin City Parliament (Bündnis ‘90/The Greens) and has been the party spokesperson for migration, integration and refugee policy since 2009. Her major issues are migration, antidiscrimination and diversity-mainstreaming. She has been active for years in Friedrichshain in the “Initiative against the Right-Wing” and the local “Alliance for the Family”. In addition, she campaigns for a refugee policy that gives people a framework to hel ... more
Shadi Angelina Bazeghi Shadi Angelina Bazeghi (born in 1974 in Iran) is a poet and translator and has lived in Denmark since 1986. She studied Creative Writing at the Forfatterskolen writing school in Copenhagen and Astronomy at the University of Copenhagen. Bazeghi has translated several books of verse by the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad into Danish. She is co-editor of the literary magazine KRITIKER. A collection of her own poems, written in Danish, was published in 2015 by the renowned Gyldendal Press with the ti ... more Shadi Angelina Bazeghi c_Jakob Dall
Francesca Beard Francesca Beard was born in Malaysia and grew up in the 1970s in Penang, an idyllic island paradise. She is a writer, performer and workshop leader. Beard has toured at home and around the world as a solo artist, in various poetry collectives and with her solo show “Chinese Whispers”. She represents British literature for the British Council all over the world and was Lead Artist for Speechless, a three-year programme in the whole of East Asia, which culminated in an appearance in the Royal Fe ... more Francesca Beard © Carlos Cazurro
Derek Beaulieu Derek Beaulieu, (b. 1973), is a Canadian poet and also editor of 20 books of poems, prose and criticism, including two volumes of his own selected work, Please, No More Poetry: the Poetry of derek beaulieu (2013) and (in German translation) Konzeptuelle Arbeiten (2017). In his work Beaulieu focuses on conceptual fiction, especially visual translations/rewritings. So his most recent book, a, A Novel (2017) is a take on Andy Warhol’s work of the same name from 1968.Beaulieu exhibits his visual wor ... more Derek Beaulieu © privat
Claude Beausoleil Claude Beausoleil (*1948, Montreal, Canada) was professor of literature at the University of Quebec in Montreal until 2004. In his literary works, he has developed a characteristic, urban style of poetry in which he regularly portrays the singularly cultural situation in his home region of Quebec. He regularly participates in international literature festivals and colloquia and he is also director of the Lèvres urbaines magazine. He is a member of the Académie Mallarmé. Publications include: "Au ... more
Zoltán Beck Zoltán Beck was born in Ajka, Hungary, in 1971, and is a songwriter, singer and teacher of Roma Studies at the University of Pécs. With his brother, László Beck, he started the alternative rock band 30Y in 2000. Musically, the five-piece band is close to 90s American rock music, but their style resists categorisation. In 2012 Beck was awarded the prize for Song of the Year for ‘Azért jöttem’ (That’s Why I Came). As well as his own texts, he sets the poems of contemporary Hungarian poets to music ... more Foto: Támás Lékó
Zoltán Beck Zoltán Beck (born in 1971 in Ajka, Hungary) is a singer, guitarist and songwriter with the alternative-rock band 30Y, which he formed in 2000 with his brother László Beck. The band has released ten albums and its concerts are regularly sold out in Hungary. In 2012 Beck was voted Songwriter of the Year. He writes his own lyrics and sets poems by contemporary Hungarian poets to music. He teaches Roma Studies at the University of Pécs.Discography:Dicsőség. 2016Best of 30Y (platinum!). 2015Bezzeg a ... more Zoltan Beck c_Petra Kirschner
Kerstin Becker Kerstin Becker (born in 1969 in Frankenberg) spent her childhood in Moosheim and Hainichen in Saxony. She has worked variously as a typesetter, a cemetery gardener and an agricultural worker. She now lives in Dresden with her two children and works as a writer and proof-reader. Her texts have appeared in anthologies such as Lyrik im Anthropozän (kookbooks 2016) and in art and literature magazines such as ]trash[pool (7/2016) and Ort der Augen – ODA (Autumn 2016 issue). Her poems have been transl ... more
Anke Becker Anke Becker (b.1971 in Frankfurt am Main) is an artist and curator and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1991. She studied painting at the Berlin-Weissensee University of Applied Art from 1993‑1999.Anke Becker initiated and heads the international exhibition project Anonyme Zeichner (Anonymous Drawings) (www.anonyme-zeichner.de), is co-founder of the damensalon berlin (Berlin Ladies’ Salon) (www.damensalon.net) and writes the blog economicwords (www.economicwords.com)Anke Becker’s artistic wo ... more Anke Becker © Gudrun Senger
Onur Behramoğlu Onur Behramoğlu's (*1975, İstanbul) first collection "Asit ya da İksir" (Acid or Elixir) came out in September 2006 (second edition: March 2013) as the first poetry book of "Yitik Ülke" (Lost Land) Publishing House. His second poetry collection "Senden Öğrendiğim Şarkılar" (The Songs I Learned From You) is published in April 2013. He is a monthly columnist at ‘Şalom’ (Shalom) newspaper and ‘Remzi Kitap Gazetesi’ (Remzi Book Newspaper). He is writing articles at 'Aykırı Akademi' (www.aykiriakadem ... more Onur Behramoğlu
Olinda Beja Olinda Beja (born1946 in São Tomé and Príncipe) moved to Portugal at an early age, studying linguistics and modern literature there. Her poems deal with interpersonal relations in all their facets, including romantic transformation, beauty, yearning, living together, hurt, mourning and sex. Since 2002, Beja has been a fellow of the C. Nacional de Cultura/I.P.L.B. and an advisor on cultural matters to her homeland's Embassy in Portugal. Her poems have appeared in national and international magazi ... more