Mueyed Teyîb Mueyed Teyîb (born in 1957 in Dihok, Iraq) started writing poems in 1975. He studied Law and Political Science at the University in Baghdad and has worked as a journalist, editor and programme manager for Kurdistan TV. Between 1983 and 1996 political persecution forced him to live as an asylum seeker in Sweden. On returning to Kurdistan he founded the Spîrêz Press, which he still runs. Teyîb has published six books of verse which are read in schools in Iraq. Copies of some of his poems banned by ... more Mueyed Teyîb c_C. Vald
The Maw Naing The Maw Naing, born in Myin Gyan, Myanmar, in 1971 studied IT and is a poet, performance artist, painter and filmmaker. His first book of verse, published in 1988, is a pointed commentary in surrealistic images on the political upheavals in Myanmar. The Maw Naing’s poems do not merely interrogate the present-day social situation, but also the role of the subject in it, with the author himself becoming a field of experimentation for changes in meaning and reascribings. His poems are frequently a ... more
Thomas Thiel Thomas Thiel is the Director of the Bielefelder Kunstverein museum. He studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice in Hildesheim and Marseilles. Since then he has worked for In Between, the official art project of EXPO 2000, and for Manifesta 4, European Biennale for Contemporary Art in Frankfurt am Main. From 2004‑2008 he was curator and most recently director of the exhibitions section of the Centre for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe. In Bielefeld he has organised many solo exhibiti ... more Thomas Thiel
Hans Thill Hans Thill (born in Baden-Baden in 1954) is a poet, co-founder of the Wunderhorn Verlag publishing firm and director of the Edenkoben Artists’ House. He initiated the Poesie der Nachbarn (Poetry of the Neighbours) translation workshop and has himself translated such writers as Guillaume Apollinaire, Yvan Goll, Abdelwahab Meddeb and Assia Djebar from French. He has edited several anthologies of contemporary German-language poetry with Michael Braun, and, with Gregor Laschen, anthologies of Englis ... more Hans Thill (c) Ute Schendel
Ana Tijoux Ana Tijoux (born in Lille, France, in 1977) has been a star in Latin America for more than a decade. Her lyrics, her flow, her beats and her stage presence have made her one of the few successful female MCs in the international hip hop scene. Tijoux circumvents the linguistic and thematic conventions of Rap, with her largely autobiographical lyrics dealing with the deaths of those close to her, with creative crises, with friendship, love, faith and pain. Her hit Shock criticises the educational ... more
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (b. 1962 in Wólka Krowicka near Lubaczów) is the great outsider in contemporary Polish poetry. He is a poète maudit par excellence. His texts grow wild at the edge of language, telling of his mother’s schizophrenia, of the death of his friend, of the mouths of callboys and of Lublin brothels. Tkaczyszyn-Dycki was influenced by Ukranian culture and language even as a child. These encounters have left their traces in his work to this day and express his fascination with ... more Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki © Marta Sputowska
Ottó Tolnai (de) Ottó Tolnai (1940, Kanizsa/Serbien-Montenegro) gehört der ungarischen Minderheit in der Vojvodina (Serbien) an und ist Dichter, Prosaist, Dramatiker, Kunstkritiker, Essayist und Übersetzer. Er studierte Hungarologie und Philosophie. Seit 1965 war er Redakteur der unabhängigen Literaturzeitschrift Uj Symposium (Neues Symposium), bis die Zeitschrift 1972 verboten wurde. Heute ist er Herausgeber der Veszprémer Zeitschrift Ex Symposium. Mit seiner Lyrik stellt sich Tolnai als wahrer Grenzgänger ... more
Zoltán Tolvaj Zoltán Tolvaj (born 1978 in Budapest, Hungary) spent his first few years in Brazil then grew up in Transylvania and Hungary. Since 1998 he has been writing poems, essays and short stories which have been published in many Hungarian literary magazines . He has published two collections of verse. Zoltán Tolvaj studied astrology and Hungarian and Portuguese language and literature, has worked in hostels and as a bar musician and was from 2003 to 2008 the online editor of a Hungarian literatur ... more
Edwin Torres Edwin Torres (b. 1957 New York) is a spoken word artist of Puerto Rican descent who travelled the world with the legendary “Nuyorican Poets Cafe Live” collective. Alongside his own individual work, he works continually with other artists. Torres’s work combines performative spoken word poetry with sound poetry and use of the body, sound elements and theatre. He has won numerous scholarships, above all from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art. ... more
Kinga Tóth Kinga Tóth (b. 1983 in Sárvár, Hungary) is a linguist and (sound) poetry illustrator. She works as a “communication specialist” (journalist) and is a reader for art magazines. Her own artistic work often crosses genre boundaries; she frequently performs her own poetic texts with sound support and has illustrated several of her own volumes of verse. She is also a songwriter and fronts the project Tóth Kína Hegyfalu and is a committee member of the József Attila Circle Literary Association of Youn ... more Kinga Tóth © Dirk Skiba
Asmus Trautsch Asmus Trautsch (b. in Kiel) is a philosopher and poet and lives in Berlin. He studied Philosophy, German Literature and Composition and Music Theory in Berlin and London. He gained his doctorate from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2015 with a thesis on the Theory of Tragic Experience. He co-ran the publisher of contemporary literature LUNARDI Verlag für zeitgenössische Literatur and has been chairman of Klangnetz e.V., the non-profit Berlin network for New Music and applied arts. Asmus Tr ... more Asmus Trautsch © gezett