Peter Waterhouse Peter Waterhouse (*1956, Germany) studied German and English language and literature and received his doctorate in 1984 with a dissertation on Paul Celan. He is an a writer and translator and lives in Vienna. On awarding Peter Waterhouse the Erich Fried Prize in 2007, the jury member Ilma Rakusa said: “Peter Waterhouse is one of the most idiosyncratic voices in modern German-language literature. Since the early 1980s, in his poetry, prose, theatre plays and poetological essays, he has been deali ... more
Anja Weber (de) Anja Weber absolvierte eine Ausbildung zur zeitgenössischen Tänzerin am Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance, München, und schloss akademische Studien in Philosophie/Musik- und Theaterwissenschaft, Psychologie und Medizin ab. 1991 gründete sie die dance-aarts-cie., die zunächst als festes Ensemble mit Gasttänzern und Choreographen, später als freie Gruppe mit wechselnder Besetzung an der Verortung von zeitgenössischem Tanz im Verhältnis zu anderen Kunstformen, insbesondere Mus ... more Anja Weber (c) Dodi Helschinger
Julian Weber (de) Julian Weber (geb. 1986 in Deutschland) ist Choreograf, Tänzer und bildender Künstler. Er arbeitet intensiv an Interaktionsräumen, die Körper, Material und Bewegung involvieren. Er entwickelt eigene Arbeiten an der Schnittstelle von Choreografie und bildender Kunst oder kooperiert mit Künstlerinnen und Künstlern wie Meg Stuart, Boris Charmatz und Tino Sehgal. Julian Weber studierte an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK), der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, am Hochschu ... more Julian Weber (c) Joel Mu
Julian Weber Julian Weber (b. 1986 in Germany) is a choreographer, dancer and artist. He works intensively on spaces of interaction involving bodies, material and movement. He develops his own work at the interface of choreography and fine art or collaborates with artists such as Meg Stuart, Boris Charmatz and Tino Sehgal. Julian Weber studied at the Braunschweig University of Art, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Inter-University Centre for Dance, Berlin and at the Theatre School in Amsterdam. In 2015 h ... more Julian Weber © Joel Mu
Michael Weilacher Michael Weilacher was born (1969) in Rochester, NY where he grew up studying the piano and later percussion at the Eastman School of Music. He later attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and received his Bachelor's diploma in music performance. While in Cincinnati he worked as a freelance musician in diverse rock groups, a steel drum band as well as with dancers from different schools in the area including from the Conservatory. After finishing his Studies, he received an invitation to s ... more Michael Weilacher (c) Kris Neilsson
Aviv Weinberg Aviv Weinberg studied at the seminary for cantors at the Abraham Geiger College and is registered on the Masters course in Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. She is a fellow of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Department and has the privilege of regularly being able to attend courses by many different cantors from Israel and the USA, including Prof. Eliyahu Schleifer, Josee Wolf, Danny Maseng and Israel Goldstein. She has already performed on many different occasions including for ... more Aviv Weinberg (c) Tobias Barniske
Maya Weinberg (de) Maya Weinberg (geb. 1975 in Petach-Tikva, Israel) interessiert sich für grundsätzliche Fragen des Mediums Performance, während sie unerwartete Wege mit den tragisch komischen Lücken zwischen Sprache und unausgedrückten Intentionen begeht. Sie studierte am Seminar Hakibutz im College of Arts and Technology und arbeitete 8 Jahre als Tänzerin für Yasmeen Godders Kompanie. Sie unterrichtete Tanz u.a. an Godders Schule, an der Schule für visuelles Theater in Jerusalem, Smash Berlin und am HZT Be ... more Maya Weinberg (c) Bart Grietens
Ai Weiwei (de) Ai Weiwe (geb. 1957 in Peking) ist einer der weltweit bekanntesten bildenden Künstler der Gegenwart. Er ist Filmemacher, Bildhauer, Installations- und Konzeptkünstler, außerdem ist er einer der radikalsten Kritiker der chinesischen Regierung. Ende der siebziger Jahre studierte er an der Filmakademie in Peking, bevor er 1981 für insgesamt zwölf Jahre nach New York übersiedelte. Im Jahre 1994, nach seiner Rückkehr nach Peking, gründete er das China Art Archives and Warehouse, eine Galerie für ... more Ai Weiwei © Ai Weiwei Studio
Selma Wels Selma Wels (born 1979, Pforzheim) founded the “binooki” press together with her sister Inci Bürhaniye in 2011, with the aim of giving a German voice to young Turkish authors and of creating a space in Germany for selected modern Turkish classics. During the Gezi Park protests in the Summer of 2013, the “binooki” team voluntarily translated the flood of information and made them publicly available. In addition to this, Selma Wels took part in demonstrations in Berlin and organized informative ev ... more Selma Wels Foto: Barbara Dietl
Peter Wessel The poet Peter Wessel (b. 1950 Copenhagen, Denmark) lives in Madrid. After long stays in Denmark, France and the USA, he settled in Spain in 1981 where he works as a teacher and journalist in the fields of art, linguistics and music. He was already writing in English at the age of 17 and his works were published in the USA. In 2003, he began work on his multilingual poems, which he calls “Polyfonías”. For these, he uses the languages of the countries in which he has lived: Danish, English, Frenc ... more
Edmund White Edmund White (b. 1940 in Cincinnati, USA) is one of the most significant gay writers of the 20th Century. With other writers he founded the Violet Quill group in the early 1980s, which had a profound influence on gay literature in the USA. His book States of Desire (1980), a survey of gay life in the USA at the beginning of the gay liberation movement, attracted international attention for White. As a novelist he is best known for his semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1992), The ... more Edmund White © Andrew Fladeboe