Authors

Mazen Abdallah, born in southern Lebanon in 1957, studied in Beirut where he now works as a bank manager.

Felix Ackermann, born in 1978, grew up in Berlin and obtained his doctorate in Frankfurt (Oder) under Karl Schlögel in 2008 with a thesis on the city of Grodno, now in Belarus. He taught at the European Humanities University in Vilnius between 2011 and 2016. He is currently conducting research on the history of the prison system in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the German Historical Institute Warsaw.

Bini Adamczak is a Berlin-based author and artist. Her work focuses on political theory, queer politics, and the past future of revolutions.

Gretel Adorno (née Karplus) was born in Berlin in 1902. She held a PhD in chemistry and from 1933 to 1937 managed a Berlin-based company that manufactured leather gloves. In the late 1920s, she was affiliated with numerous intellectuals including Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch and Bertolt Brecht. In 1923, she met Theodor W. Adorno, whom she married in exile in London in 1937. In 1938, the couple emigrated to the United States. They...

Theodor W. Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main and died in 1969.  He was a leading German philosopher, and alongside his friends Siegfried Kracauer, Max Horkheimer, and Walter Benjamin, was a key representative of the »Frankfurt School«. The collected and posthumous works of Theodor W. Adorno have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Robert Alexy, born in 1945, is professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author most famous for his fairy tales.

Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He is considered the leading contemporary Ukrainian writer. He writes poems, prose, essays and translates from German and Polish.

Friedrich Ani was born in 1959. His first novel was published in 1996, and since then he has gone on to write crime novels, poetry and YA-fiction, as well as writing for TV, radio and theatre. He is an award-winning script writer, while his books have also received many prominent awards. So far, he is the only author ever to receive the German Crime Fiction Prize for three titles in the same year (2003).

Arjun Appadurai, born in Mumbai in 1949, is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and currently a visiting lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Jan Assmann was born in 1938. He is an Egyptologist, scholar of religious studies and cultural studies and was professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting profressor in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Jerusalem and the USA. He has been managing an excavation project in Luxor, Egypt, since 1978. Jan Assmann passed away on 19 February 2024 in Konstanz, at the age of 85.