Roy Carroll Roy Carroll (born in 1974 in Dublin, Ireland) is a musician and composer and lives in Berlin. His work covers improvisation, composition, choreographic collaboration and practical. experimental research with porous boundaries between the areas. Carroll is interested in electro-acoustic musical processes and their physical and acoustic manifestation in performance. His most recent pieces provoke unstable interplays between various electro-acoustic media such as converters, actuators, amplifiers a ... more Roy Carroll c_Shiran Eliaserov
Paula Diehl Paula Diehl (born in 1970 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a political and communications scientist and teaches political theory, history and culture at the University of Bielefeld. In 2002 she gained her doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin with her thesis on Power – Myth – Utopia. The Body Images of the SS Men (1933–1938). In 2013 she wrote her habilitation thesis on The Political Representative and the ‘Vacant Locus of Power’ Diehl has been a visiting professor at Sciences Po in Paris, ... more Paula Diehl c_privat
Simone Kornappel Simone Kornappel lives in Berlin and is a co-editor of the magazine randnummer literaturhefte. Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies including Flarf Berlin. 95 Netzgedichte (Edition Paechterhaus 2012), Freie Radikale: 13 Dichter vor ihrem ersten Buch (Luxbooks 2010) and most recently all dies hier, Majestät, ist deins – Lyrik im Anthropozän (kookbooks 2016). Together with Sylvia Geist, Daniela Seel, Christian Lux, Andreas Bülhoff and Jan Skudlarek she has translated poems by ... more Simone Kornappel c_Annette Lux
Dragana Mladenović Writer Dragana Mladenović (born in 1977 in Frankenberg) grew up in Serbia. She studied Serbian Literature in Belgrade and now works as a writer and journalist for the weekly magazine Pančevac. She has published many books of poetry. Her book Rodbina (2010) has been translated into German, Swedish and Macedonian. Her poems have been published in many magazines and anthologies as well as in comics. Her poems deal with the failure of utopias and with political scenarios. Mladenović writes about war ... more Dragana Mladenovic c_Zoran Jovanovic
Zakaria Mohammed (de) Zakaria Mohammed (geb. 1950 in Nablus, Palästina) ist Dichter, Romanautor, Dramaturg, Journalist und Publizist. Er studierte Arabische Literatur an der Universität Bagdad, arbeitete für das palästinensische Kulturministerium und war stellvertretender Chefredakteur der von Mahmud Darwish herausgegebenen Kulturzeitschrift al-Karmel. Nach 25 Jahren im Exil kehrte er 1994 nach Palästina zurück. Heute lebt er in Ramallah und ist einer der Leiter des dortigen Sakakini Kulturzentrums. Zakaria Moha ... more
M. NourbeSe Philip M. NourbeSe Philip (born in 1947 in Moriah, Trinidad and Tobago) is a lawyer and writer. She writes poems, novels, stage plays and essays which are repeatedly critical of racism and sexism. She became well-known for her third collection of poems She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, which was acclaimed by critics as a “linguistic and feminist Odyssey” (Phil Hall, Books in Canada). Her book Zong! (2008) is a masterpiece of Appropriation Art, a long poem using just the words from an 18t ... more M. NourbeSe Philip c_privat
Philippe-Joseph Salazar Philippe-Joseph Salazar (born in 1955 in Casablanca, Morocco) studied Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris with his teachers including Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and Emmanuel Levinas. His works on political reconciliation have made him internationally famous. From 1998 to 2004 he was the Programme Director for Rhetoric and Democracy at the prestigious Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Since 2004 he has been Professor for Rhetoric at the University of Cape Town. ... more Philippe-Joseph Salazar c_Sarah Ripart
Faruk Šehić Faruk Šehić (born in 1970 in Bihać, now in Bosnia-Herzegovina) was forced to interrupt his study of veterinary medicine in Zagreb on the outbreak of the war in 1992 and joined the army at the age of 22. After the war he studied Literature and has been publishing his work since 1998.His book of poems Hit depot was published in 2003 and was a bestseller in Bosnia-Herzegovina, helping him to the cult status he enjoys today. This book delineates what has become a central subject in his work, life af ... more Faruk Sehic c_Zoran Kanlic
Moritz Zedar (de) Moritz Zedar (geb. 1996 in Dresden) legte 2014 sein Abitur am Evangelischen Kreuzgymnasium Dresden ab. Nach dem Abitur absolvierte er ein Deutsch-Französisches Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (DFÖJ) in Südfrankreich und begann danach eine Winzerlehre auf Schloss Westerhaus in Ingelheim am Rhein. Er schreibt Lyrik für ungewöhnliche und gewöhnliche Gelegenheiten. ... more Moritz Zedar c_Annika Gutsche
< SA/JO > The artist couple(Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs) work primarily in the areas of spatial acoustic art, MicroSound-LED-light art and audio-visual installation. Often working closely with scientists, the artists have been creating walk-in spheres of experience comprising MicroSound and ColourLight since 1997. Sabine Schäfer was born in Karlsruhe in 1957 and studied piano and composition with Wolfgang Rihm and Mathias Spahlinger. Since 1992 she has been performing her installation and radiophoni ... more Foto: < SA/JO >
Rasha Abbas Rasha Abbas (born in Latakia, Syria in 1984) is a writer and journalist. She studied journalism at the University of Damascus and has published prose texts in various Arabic newspapers such as al-Quds al-arabi and As-Safir and on cultural websites. She writes mainly short stories, and brought out her first collection, Adam Hates the Television in 2008. She worked as a writer and translator on the 2014 anthology Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline. Rasha Abbas came from Syria to Germ ... more Rasha Abbas (c) Heike Steinweg
Tomomi Adachi Tomomi Adachi (born in 1972 in Kanazawa, Japan) is a sound poet, composer and performer. His works are located at the interface where poetry and music, vocal performance and improvisation meet. Adachi is also a theatre director and installation and video artist.In his sound poems he experiments with his voice, overlaying sounds on top of each other. Digital sounds combine with vowels, consonants, scratching sounds – language and music, body and sound merge, culminating in a vibrating poem.Adachi ... more