Catarina Katzer, born in 1973, studied Economics, Sociology and Social psychology at the University of Cologne. While being a scientific assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social Psychology, she was the first at her chair to deal with the subject »The internet as a new market of boundless possibilities« and analysed the world wide web in the light of social psychology. Cyber psychology and Ethics of the Media became her special fields.

Meanwhile, Catarina Katzer works as an expert and consultant for companies and public agencies in Germany and abroad as well as for governmental institutions such as, for instance, child protection centers Germany, the Enquete commission »Internet & digital society« at the German Bundestag, the comittee at the council of Europe »Culture, Science, Education & Media« at Strassburg, the federal ministry for family, seniors. woman and youth in Berlin, the ministry for education in NRW and the National Council in Switzerland. Furthermore, she works on the Management Committees of the research networks COST Action »Cyberbullying« and COST Action »Cyberparks« for Germany within the EU government. And finally she works closely in research and teaching with the institutes of different universities, such as the University of Göteborg, the University of Tel Aviv, and the University of Dublin.

Murat Kurnaz, born and raised in 1982 in Bremen as the son of Turkish immigrants, completed an apprenticeship as shipbuilder. From February 2002 to August 2006 he was detained in the US Guantanamo military camp.
He now lives and works again in Bremen.

Hannes Klug was born 1966 in Esslingen. After his education at the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich, he studied comparative literature and North American studies at Frei Universität Berlin. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz and Berliner Zeitung, he wrote about movies, literature and music; as an editor, he wrote about the USA and Canada, and as scriptwriter he created multimedia adventures and wrote several movie screenplays. His movie Ricky – Normal war gestern had its premiere in the cinemas in 2014. In 2015 Rowohlt published his novel Ich, Xi Lao Peng und die Sache mit meinem Bruder. Hannes Klug lives as freelance screenplay writer and author in Düsseldorf.

Margit Knapp was born in 1960 in Schwaz, Tyrol, and studied German, French and theater arts in Innsbruck and Vienna. She obtained her PhD with a dissertation on Italo Svevo and currently lives in Berlin. From 1995 till 2007, she worked as an editor for Klaus Wagenbach Verlag. From 2008 on she is working as an editor for Rowohlt Verlag. Additonaly she works as film author and journalist.

In the last twenty years he supported, among others, the organization of a camp for the so-called »Lost Boys of Sudan«, was in Mogadishu as a representative for the UNO during the military operation in 1993, in which 18 Americans were killed and which wrote history as the Black Hawk Down-Incident; spent two years as a contact man for the rebels of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, and coordinated one of the biggest humanitarian airlifts for Ruanda.
Meanwhile, he was in the Kosovo, in Kenya, and in Uganda, before he went to Jordan as Senior Field Coordinator for the UNHCR, where he has been running the second biggest refugee camp in the world, Zaatari, at the Syrian border ever since.

Matthias Karow was born in 1978 and studied audio engineering, creative writing and cultural jounalism in Hamburg, Munich and Hildesheim. He was co-editor of the literary magazine BELLA triste and member of the artistic management team of the literature festival PROSANOVA in 2005. Karow plays the guitar for the indie rockband Clara Motors. He writes and directs radio plays.

Charlotte Krüger, born in 1979, studied philosophy and political science in Hamburg. Subsequently, she worked at the TV station Lettra in the editorial staff of the talk show Friedmans Agenda. From 2009 to 2010, she was a member of the development staff of the magazine WOCHE. Since 2008, she works in the editorial staff of Stefan Aust's TV production company Agenda Media.

Sven Kuntze, born in 1942, studied sociology, psychology and history. In the 1990s he lived in New York City, USA, where he worked as a correspondent for ARD. Later Sven Kuntze presented the ARD-Morgenmagazin. Last he worked for ARD-Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin and retired in spring 2007. For his recent TV-report Alt sein auf Probe (eng.: Old on probation) the author was honoured with the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2008. The author lives in Berlin.

Magdalena Kopp, born in 1948 in Ulm, was a professional photographer.
In the 1970s she joined the Revolutionäre Zellen (en.: revolutionary cells), shortly after that met Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, alias Carlos, the most wanted terrorist of the time, and became his companion, spending many years with him underground. After completing a long prison sentence in France and after her separation from Carlos, she came back to live in Germany. She had two daughters. Magdalena Kopp died in Frankfurt in 2015 at the age of 67.