Anke Schipp, born in 1966 in Mainz, studied German philology, history, drama, film and television science in Gießen and Frankfurt. During her studies she worked for Hessischer Rundfunk. After that, she studied journalism in Mainz. As of 2001, she writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung in the society department. Anke Schipp is married and has two children.

Nancy Salchow, born in 1981, from childhood on worked on her own novel projects, however it was not until 2011 when she dared to go public with them and published several e-books by self publishing and on the writers' platform Neobooks. And successfully so: Her works captured the e-book-bestseller list and sold over 50.000 times.
She lives at the Baltic Sea.

Carsten Tabel was born in Friedberg/Hesse and works as an author, artist and filmmaker in Leipzig. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and creative writing at the German Institute for Literature Leipzig. His work has been published in two collections by Lubok as well as in numerous artist monographies, exhibition catalogues and literary magazines. An excerpt of his debut novel Vier halbe Amerikaner has appeared in EDIT.

 

 

Cornelia Travnicek was born in 1987 and lives in Lower Austria. She studied sinology and computer sciences and works part time as a researcher at the Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung in Vienna. She translates short prose works and poetry from Chinese. In 2012 she was invited to the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis with an exercpt of her novel Junge Hunde for which she received the audience award. Chucks was made into a movie in 2015 (DOR Film, Ertl-Hlebler).

Jasmin Tabatabai was born in 1967 in Teheran. Her father is Iranian, her mother from Germany. Till 1979 the family lived in Teheran. During the Islamic Revolution, her mother left the country with her four children. After her high school diploma in 1986, Jasmin Tabatabei studied music and acting at University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Today the actress and musician lives in Berlin.

Christian Uhle is a philosopher and lives in Berlin. He studied philosophy, physics and economics, wrote articles for Tagesspiegel and Deutschlandfunk Kultur and was philosophical advisor for the arte series Streetphilosophy. Christian gives numerous lectures, hosts several series of events and embodies an engaged, young philosophy. For six years he has been working on his philosophical non-fiction book on the meaning of life.

Max Urlacher is an actor and author. Beside his novels, he also writes radio plays and screenplays. For the WDR-production Märchentherapie he was awarded the Deutscher Kinderhörspielpreis in 2013.

Albrecht Vorster was born in Cologne in 1985 and is at present doing a PhD at the Institute of Medical Psychology at the University of Tübingen. He studied biology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg and at the Université de La Reuion. This was followed by research periods at various universities in the US and in Tel Aviv, where he studied the sleep of the fruit fly and the sea snail Aplysia californica. Since 2014 he has performed in more than twenty science slams and spoken at research conferences. In his leisure time he plays a lot of music and is co-founder of the neuroscientific band “Hippocamblues”.

Elias Vorpahl was born in 1985. After a voluntary social year in South Africa he studied mathematics and economics in Münster, Germany, and Christchurch, New Zealand. Today he works as a consultant in the private sector.