
Philipp Albers
Philipp
Albers,
co-founder
of
Zentrale
Intelligenz
Agentur,
is
a
freelance
journalist
and
writer.
Together
with
Holm
Friebe
he
co-authored
Was
Sie
schon
immer
über
6
wissen
wollten
(2011),
a
popular
non-fiction
book
about
number
psychology,
and
MIMIKRY
–
Das
Spiel
des
Lesens
(2016),
a
literary-salon-game-cum-book,
containing
a
collection
of
fake
...
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Jörg-Uwe Albig
Jörg-Uwe Albig is a Berlin-based writer. His previous novels include Velo (1999), Land voller Liebe (2006), Berlin Palace (2010) and Ueberdog (2013). He also writes for various magazines.
Photo by Christina Zück
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Philipp Blom
Best-selling
fiction
and
historic
nonfiction
writer
Philipp
Blom
was
born
in
Hamburg
and
grew
up
in
Detmold,
Germany.
After
university
studies
in
Vienna
and
Oxford,
he
obtained
a
D.Phil
in
Modern
History
from
Oxford.
He
worked
in
London
as
an
editor,
translator,
writer
and
freelance
journalist,
contributing
to
newspapers,
magazines
...
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Melanie Bühler
Melanie
Bühler
lives
and
works
in
Amsterdam
and
New
York
as
an
independent
curator.
She
is
the
founder
and
curator
of
Lunch
Bytes
–
a
project
on
digital
art
and
culture
including
talks,
discussions
and
an
online
platform
for
which
she
collaborated
with
institutions
such
as
the
Goethe-Institut;
Art
Basel;
...
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Claudia Brückner
Claudia
Brückner
is
an
Event
Experience
Designer,
Innovation
Consultant,
Independent
Strategist
and Coach
for
Personal
and Professional
Development.
She
develops
event
formats
and concepts
(from
big
conferences
to
intimate
workshops)
that
focus
on
user-centered
experiences
and
human
interactions.
She
has
supported
conferences
like
re:publica,
DMY
Berlin,
Service
Experience
Camp,
Synchronicity
Berlin
with
her
...
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Timo Daum
Timo
Daum
studied
Physics
and
has
worked
over
two
decades
in
the
IT
industry.
He
is
a
lecturer
for
online
development
and
digital
economy.
He
writes
and
gives
talks
on
topics
around
digital
capitalism.
His
article
series
Understanding
Digital
Capitalism
was
published
with
the
online
magazine
DAS
FILTER.
In
autumn
...
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Jutta Ditfurth
Jutta
Ditfurth
(Frankfurt/Main)
is
a
public
intellectual,
political
activist,
member
of
the
city
parliament
of
Frankfurt,
sociologist
and
author
of
16
books
(topics
range
from
the
biography
of
Ulrike
Meinhof
to
aristocratic
antisemitism,
ecofascism
and
New
Age,
the
Paris
Commune,
and
others),
some
of
them
bestsellers
and
several
translated
into
...
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Holm Friebe
Holm
Friebe,
co-founder
of
Zentrale
Intelligenz
Agentur,
is
a
teaching
professor
for
design
theory
at
liberal
arts
colleges.
He
has
co-authored
and
written
several
non-fiction
books,
among
them
Wir
nennen
es
Arbeit
(2006,
with
Sascha
Lobo),
Marke
Eigenbau
(with
Thomas
Ramge,
2008),
and
Die
Stein-Strategie
(2013).
Together
with
Philipp
Albers
...
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Rafael Horzon
Rafael
Horzon
was
born
in
1970
in
Hamburg
and studied
philosophy,
Latin,
and
nuclear
physics
in
Paris,
Munich,
and
Berlin,
before
he
began
working
as
a
delivery
man
for
the
German
Post
Office
in
1996.
Since
1997,
he
has
founded
numerous
enterprises
such
as
the
furniture
store
Moebel
Horzon,
the
partner-separation
...
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Louis Klein
Dr.
Louis
Klein
is
an
economist
and
entrepreneurial
social
scientist.
He
currently
serves
as
Dean
of
the
European
School
of
Governance.
He
is
the
founder
of
the
Systemic
Excellence
Group,
a
global
change
management
cooperative.
Louis
Klein
is
co-editor
of
the
German
philosophical
business
magazine
agora42
and
editor
of
the
...
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Katja Kullmann
Katja
Kullmann
is
a
writer,
newspaper
journalist
and
freelance
sociologist.
In
her
work,
she
puts
the
focus
on
the
mechanics
of
distinction
–
especially
on
"lifestyle"
as
a
political
feature,
always
intertwined
with
matters
of
social
class
and
identity.
Her
latest
book
Rasende
Ruinen.
Wie
Detroit
sich
neu
erfindet
(2012)
...
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Katharina Meyer
Katharina Meyer is trained as historian of technology and in arts+media administration and curates knowledge and objects. At STATE Festival and re:publica, she coordinates all activities in the fields of science & culture. At Polynocular Tech lab, she trains students in transdisciplinary computer science.
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Eckhart Nickel
Dr. Eckhart Nickel studied German Literature and Art History in Heidelberg and New York and graduated with a study on Thomas Bernhard and Dandyism. He publishes fiction and travel writing, and works as a Journalist for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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Maik Novotny
Maik
Novotny
was
born
in
Stuttgart
in
1972
and
has
been
living
in
Vienna
since
2000.
He
studied
architecture
and
urban
planning
in
Stuttgart
and
Delft
and
has
been
working
in
architecture
practices
in
and
near
Vienna.
He
is
the
architecture
critic
for
daily
newspaper
Der
Standard
and
Vienna
weekly
...
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Stephan Porombka
Stephan
Porombka
initially
was
a
literary
scholar
at
the
Free
University
and
the
Humboldt
University
in
Berlin,
focusing
on
New
Media;
he
was
an
early
expert
on
hypertext
as
well
as
a
slam
poet
and
a
journalist.
In
2003,
he
became
professor
at
the
University
of
Hildesheim,
where
he
initiated
...
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Eva Rapp-Frick
Eva
Rapp-Frick
is
an
art
historian
and
lecturer
at
the
University
of
Dortmund.
She
is
chairperson
of
the
art
association
Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Bund
in
Hagen
and
on
the
board
of
the
Circle
of
Friends
of
the
Museum
für
Kunst
und
Kulturgeschichte
in
Münster.
She
has
published
books
and
essays
on
various
art-historical
...
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Benedikt Sarreiter
Benedikt Sarreiter is a writer for Nansen & Piccard. He is the author (with Paul-Philipp Hanske) of Neues von der anderen Seite – die Wiederentdeckung des Psychedelischen (2015). Sarreiter lives in Munich.
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Geza Schön
Geza Schön (born 1969 in Kassel) is a perfumer and creator of various brands like Escentric Molecules and The Beautiful Mind Series. He lives and works in Berlin.
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Emily Segal
Emily
Segal
(b.
1988,
New
York,
NY)
is
an
artist
and
trend
forecaster
based
in
Berlin.
She
founded
the
art
collective
and
trend
forecasting
group
K-HOLE,
which
produced
free
PDF
reports
exploring
the
limits
of
consumer
experience.
As
a
consultant,
Emily
has
worked
on
projects
for
Comme
des
Garçons,
Prada,
...
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Timotheus Vermeulen
Timotheus
Vermeulen
is
an
Associate
Professor
in
the
Department
of
Media
and
Communication
at
the
University
of
Oslo,
where
he
co-directs
the
media
aesthetics
research
group.
He
has
authored
and
edited
numerous
books
and
articles
on
post-postmodern
culture
as
well
as
on
contemporary
aesthetics,
in
particular
film
and
TV.
His
...
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Barbara Vinken
Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken, Ph.D., is Professor for French and Comparative Literature at LMU Munich (Germany). Among her latest publications are Flaubert Postsecular (2015), Angezogen (2014) and Die Blumen der Mode (2016).
Photo by Claudio di Lucia
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Anne Waak
Anne
Waak
is
a
freelance
journalist
and
writer
interested
in
all
things
culture,
arts
and
society.
She
has
published
the
books
Der
Freie
Tod
–
Eine
kleine
Kulturgeschichte
des
Suizids
(2016),
a
highly
subjective
cultural
history
of
suicide,
Hartz
IV
und
wir
–
Protokolle
(2014),
that
deals
with
the
creative
...
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Raul Zelik
Raul Zelik is a writer and political scientist. He was an associate professor for Political Science at National University of Colombia until 2013, and lives now as a freelancer in Berlin.
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