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Antonius Baehr-Oliva

earned his doctorate in 2019 from the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br. with a thesis on Venus Poems in German Baroque (1624–1700): Myth Corrections and Transformations [original title: Venus-Dichtungen im deutschen Barock (1624–1700). Mythenkorrekturen und Transformationen]. Since August 2019, he has been a teacher at the Grund- und Stadtteilschule Eppendorf, a district school in Hamburg, where he teaches German and English. In his current work, he is exploring the reception of ancient myths and antiquity in the Baroque era, as well as issues of otherness and marginalisation, particularly in German rap.

Hallie Black

is the director of Stray Dog Café, the personal art and research space of Pritzker Prize winning architect Thom Mayne in Los Angeles, CA. There she conceptualized, edited, and graphically designed his latest book, M³: modeled works [archive] 1972–2022 (Rizzoli, 2023). She graduated from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University in May of 2019 with a Bachelor of Architecture concentrating in visual representation and a minor in German Studies. Her thesis, “Building Up in Flames”, won the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Thesis Award for design and academic excellence and was nominated for the Michael Rapuano Memorial Award. Black was the managing editor of the Cornell Journal of Architecture for issues 11 and 12. Cornell and Yale University, among others, have featured her work in exhibitions and several print and online publications. Black taught at Cornell University and is currently a guest lecturer at University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles.

Rebecca Haubrich

is the current Managing Director of the interdisciplinary research platform Worlds of Contradiction (U Bremen). She earned her PhD in German Studies from Brown University with a dissertation entitled Mourning (M)Others: Images of a Maternal Education (2018). Her research is located at the intersection of philology, law, and aesthetics. Currently, she is working on a Postdoc project concerned with the cultural reception of so-called show trials.

Gozde Naiboglu

is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of Post-unification Turkish German Cinema: Work, Globalisation and Politics beyond Representation (Palgrave, 2018). Her other publications have appeared in journals including Studies in European Cinema, Feminist Media Studies, Feminist German Studies, Screen and Film Criticism. Her research interests include non-representational approaches to film and screen media, contemporary European cinema and the issues of work, migration, and global politics, gender and sexuality studies, feminist materialisms and affect.

Patrick Ploschnitzki

is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. He holds a PhD in Transcultural German Studies with a minor in Translation Studies from the University of Arizona and Universität Leipzig. His research investigates discourses around dubbing and dubbese related to US-American television broadcast in Germany. Other research interests include the connections between popular media and literary traditions, such as redefined Heimat imagery in contemporary German punk and rap lyrics. Ploschnitzki also translates contemporary German, Swiss and Austrian literature into English.

Sarah Pogoda

has been Senior Lecturer at Bangor University in Wales since 2016. With a PhD in literary studies (Freie Universität Berlin) on architects in German literature, she expanded her research expertise to performance studies and history, and theories and practices of the Avant-Garde(s). She has also increasingly applied practice-based methodologies for her research into Christoph Schlingensief’s aesthetics (https://nkw-aufbauorganisation.jimdosite.com/), and for socially engaged art communities in North Wales. She publishes in German, English and Welsh.

Anne Rietschel

studied German Literature and Scandinavian Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Copenhagen, as well as dramaturgy at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HFMT Hamburg). After her graduation, she worked as a dramaturg at Thalia Theater Hamburg and Staatsschauspiel Dresden, as well as a dramaturg, festival and production manager for several independent theater projects. In various documentary and research-based theatre projects, she focuses on the combination of science and artistic practice. In 2016, she developed the theatre adaptation for Peter Richter’s novel 89/90 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, which inspired her PhD at the University of Hamburg. In her PhD in contemporary literature, she examines narratives about adolescence in the setting of the social and political changes in Germany in 1989/90. In addition to her PhD, she is currently working as Artistic Production Manager at Theater an der Parkaue Berlin.

Hanna Maria Rompf

is a doctoral candidate at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. For her dissertation at the Justus Liebig Universität Gießen she examined camp reports from Polish inmates of Buchenwald. Her PhD dissertation is on authors’ self-staging in contemporary German-Jewish literature. She guested edited volume 15 of Germantisk in Ireland with Sabine Egger on the topic of contemporaneity.

Joseph Twist

is a lecturer in German Studies at University College Dublin. In broad terms, he is interested in the intersection of philosophy and literature. What links the majority of his research is a questioning of how literature can allow us to view the world differently, and in particular the categories of the subject, and of self and other. His monograph Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature: Openness to Alterity (2018) focuses on the interaction between mystical and postmodern thought in the work of contemporary authors Zafer Şenocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu and Navid Kermani.

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