Thomas Meinecke Thomas Meinecke (born in Hamburg in 1955,) was the editor of the avantgarde journal 'Mode & Verzweiflung' (Fashion and Desperation). He has written columns for Die Zeit, as well as novels and short stories. In 1980 he founded the band Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (F.S.K.) (Voluntary Self-Control), with which he has since released more than a dozen albums, and he has worked as a radio DJ. his collected song lyrics were published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2007 as 'Lob der Kybernetik' [Praise of Cy ... more
Eliav Brand Eliav Brand (born 1968 in Tel Aviv, Israel) studied composition with Joseph Dorfman at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and has worked with David Felder, Cort Lippe and Walter Zimmermann. As well as chamber music compositions, Brand’s work also includes interdisciplinary projects, mostly as collaborations with writers, video artists and architects. His works have been presented at international festivals such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Eclat Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart and the Jun ... more
Eugen Gomringer Eugen Gomringer (born in Bolivia in 1925) is one of the ‘fathers’ of Concrete Poetry. His text ‘vom vers zur konstellation’ (from verse to constellation) is, together with the manifesto by the Brazilian Noigrandes group of writers, the founding document of this literature. His poems have been published all over the world and are a firmly-established fixture in school textbooks. In 1953, together with Dieter Roth and Marcel Wyss, Gomringer founded the magazine Spirale and from 1960 to 1965 he edi ... more
Gregor Podlogar Gregor Podlogar (born 1974 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) studied philosophy and has published two books of verse to date. In 2003 he created an experimental book about New York City with a painter and a poet. Gregor Podlogar lives in his birthplace, Ljubljana, presents cultural broadcasts on the radio and occasionally performs as a DJ. He also translates contemporary American poetry (C. Hawkey, L. Solomon, P. Killebrew, A. Berrigan) and is the editor of the Slovenian edition of lyrikline.org. P ... more
Georgi Gospodinov Georgi Gospodinov (born 1968 in Yambol, Bulgaria) is one of the most translated Bulgarian writers in the post-1989 period. He lives and works in Sofia, writing a regular column for the Bulgarian daily newspaper Dnevnik and editing a literary journal. He has published four volumes of verse and won various literary prizes in Bulgaria. A selection of his poems has been published in German translation in Kleines morgendliches Verbrechen. Gospodinov became internationally known in 1999 primarily for ... more
Jonáš Hájek Jonáš Hájek (born 1984 in Prague, Czech Republic) regularly publishes poems in poetry magazines and literary journals, including Lichtungen, Hebenon and Odra. He has brought out two poetry collections and received the Jiří Orten Prize in 2007 for his debut Sut. This is a prize awarded by the City of Prague and the publisher Mladá Fronta to excellent writers and poets under thirty. Jonáš Hájek is also a translator, and has translated Günter Eich’s post-war collection Abgelegene Gehöfte into Czech ... more
L-Ness L-ness, born in 1979 in Nakuru, Kenya, is the pseudonym of Lydia Owano Akwabi, also known as “Lioness” or “Madadadigital”, and is one of the most charismatic femcees of African Hip-Hop. She does not rap in Swahili or English, the two official languages of Kenya, but in Sheng, a hybrid language which developed in the slums of Nairobi and gradually became the lingua franca of the Underground there. The art of L-ness, well summed up as ‘Gal Power’, impresses with the directness and sheer energy and ... more L-ness (c) Ralf Rafee