Marie-Alice Schultz was born in 1980 in Hamburg. She studied theatre arts and German literature in Berlin as well as visual arts in Hildesheim. She is co-editor of the Hamburg-based literary magazine tau and has herself published in various magazines and anthologies. In 2016 she participated in the writing class of the Jürgen Ponto foundation and that of the Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. For the manuscript of Mikadowälder she received the Hamburg advancement award for literature.

Janine Adomeit was born in Cologne in 1983. Sie studied literature and linguistics and has published regularly since 2008 (poetin, Bella triste, Sprache im technischen Zeitalter among others). She participated in the LCB’s authors class and the writing class of the Jürgen Ponto foundation and was also awarded the Leonhard-und-Ida Wolff-Gedächtnispreis by the city of Munich. She lives in Flebsburg, where she works as copywriter and author .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christian Alt studied German literature as well as philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Since 2010 he has written for different media on pop and cyber culture. Now he works for Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), mostly for the scene magazine “Zündfunk”, where he has remained true to his areas of interest. He is a columnist at “PULS”, the young program of BR, and a writer for different ARD-broadcasters. For BR he also develops podcasts, among others the story telling podcast “Einfach machen”, which he also presented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magda Albrecht was born in 1986 and grew up in Berlin. In 2013 she graduated in American studies and has since worked as a political spokeswoman and as a journalist. She regularly contributes to the blog “Mädchenmannschaft”, carries out research and give talks on body ideals and assumptions on health and fatness, which she questions. She sums up her activism in a short credo: My fat is political.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Safia Monney was born in 1979 in Saarbrücken and lives as a novelist and writer in Paris. At the moment she is developing her own TV series for VOX. She studied acting at the conservatory of the City of Vienna and communication science at the LMU in Munich. As an actress, she worked at the Munich Kammerspiele and played in several German film and TV productions. She lives in Paris and at the French Atlantic coast. Ich traf Gott und sie heißt Miranda is her third novel.

Hamed Abdel-Samad was born in Cairo in 1972 He studied Languages and Political Science in Egypt and Germany. He worked for the UNESCO, was a scholar at Erfurt University's department  for Arabic Studies, and later taught at the Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Munich University. Until 2020 he was a member of the German Islam Conference. His books keep causing a furore and make it on the bestseller list. The German public TV channel ZDF once described his work as follows: "He is living what he is asking of his fellow citizens, enlightment by breaking taboos." In 2013, fanatics issued a fatwa on his life. Since then Abdel-Samad lives under 24/7 police protection.

Sophie Albers was born in Hamburg in 1970. She studied film, history and literature and worked as a journalist for various magazines. Since 2008, she is an arts editor at stern.de. She lives in Berlin. Wunderland is her first novel.