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Lena Vöcklinghaus works as a reasearch assistant in the doctoral programme „Schreibszene Frankfurt“. She writes her phd thesis on aesthetic and social practices of contemporary literary performances, applying ethnographic methods to the literary field. Beforehand, she studied sociology, cultural studies and creative writing in Mannheim, Bogotá, Frankfurt/Oder and Hildesheim. She was an editor of the literary magazine BELLA triste and co-curated and co-organized the literary festival PROSANOVA 2014. She lives in Frankfurt and Berlin.

Tom Bresemann was born 1978 in Berlin, where he writes, publishes, organizes events and lives.

2004 together with Philip Maroldt and Björn Schäfer he formed the S³ LiteraturWerke in Berlin, a „socially acting enterprise in service of beauty“.

2004-2009 he organized readings, symposia and publications for the S³ LiteraturWerke. (i.a. readings on the Berlin Ringbahn)

2006 together with Moritz Malsch and Katharina Deloglu he founded the Lettrétage.

2008 he organized the 1st conference of young authors DICHTES GEREDE (a collaboration between S³ LiteraturWerke, kookbooks, Texttonlabel KOOK, funded by the Berlin senate) (i.a. Hendrik Jackson, Thomas Klupp, Ron Winkler, Jan Wagner, Andrea Winkler, Kirsten Fuchs)

2009 he organized a literary walk on the „day of the dead“ for the „Latinale“.

2010 together with Timo Berger he organized the Argentinian-German writers‘ conference „Botenstoffe“, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. (i.a. Lola Arias, Laura Alcoba, Felix Bruzzone, Pablo Ramos, Tilman Rammstedt, Daniel Falb, Nora Bossong)

2011 he conceptualized and organized the speaking and reading event series „Überlandleitung“, funded by the Berlin senate. (i.a. Jean Krier, Abbas Khider, María Cecilia Barbetta)

2012 he moderated the international authors‘ conference „Schriftproben“. (with Jörg Albrecht, Gerhild Steinbuch, Kasper Colling Nielsen, Satu Taskinen, Moa Eriksson Sandberg, Haukur Már Helgason, Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Antje Rávic Strubel, Luise Boege amongst others)

2012 he conceptualized and organized the authors‘ conference „fernsprechende“, funded by the Berlin senate. (with Artur Becker, Dana Ranga, Daniela Seel, Konstantin Ames, Yulia Marfutova,  María Cecilia Barbetta, Caudia Basrawi and Martin Lechner)

2014 he was responsible as the artistic director of the international „SOUNDOUT! Festival for New Ways of Presenting Literature“. Funded by the LOTTO Stiftung Berlin Brandenburg. Particints amongst others were Jörg Piringer, Andrea Inglese, Oleksandr Mykher, Jazra Khaleed, Eno Santanen, Robert Stadlober, Érica Zingano, Cristian Forte, Odile Kennel, Ernesto Estrella, Tomomi Adachi.

2014 he organized the PR for the Lettrétage project „¿Comment! Lesen ist schreiben ist lesen“.

2014-2017 together with Katharina Deloglu (Lettrétage) he coordinated the Network of European literary activists CROWD. Amongst others co-funded by the CREATIVE EUROPE program of the EU. CROWD organized amongst others a three month long reading bus tour from Finland to Cyprus, the participants i.a. JK Ihalainen (FI), Harri Hertell (FI), Katariina Vuorinen (FI), Olga Pek (CZ), Pambos Kouzalis (CY), Maria Siakalli (CY), Gür Genc (CY), Ilse Kilic (AT), Thomas Antonic (AT), Maria Cecilia Barbetta (DE), Artur Becker (DE), Elias Knörr (IS), Judith Keller (CH), Anja Golob (SI), Ian de Toffoli (LU), Alen Meskovic (DK), Rufus Mufasa (UK), Tsvetanka Elenkova (BG), Kätlin Kaldmaa (EE), Vladimir Durisic (ME), Birger Emanuelsen (NO), Roland Reichen (CH), Nadia Mifsud (MT), Johannes Schrettle (AT), Satu Taskinen (FI), Marko Tomaš (BA), Peter Højrup (DK), Ricardo Domeneck (DE), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (AT), Andrea Inglese (IT), Alev Adil (CY), Katarzyna Fetlińska (PL), Eino Santanen (FI), Aase Berg (SE), Ondrej Budeus (CZ), Odile Kennel (DE), Barbi Marković (RS), Markus Köhle (AT), Maxime Coton (BE), Teemu Manninen (FI), Ervina Halili (KO), Martin Jankowski (DE), Lilly Jäckl (AT), Kinga Toth (HU), John Holten (IE), Eftychia Panayiotou (CY), Jan Kaus (EE), Vakis Loizides (CY), Stefanie Sargnagel (AT), Alexander Micheuz (AT), Daniela Seel (DE), Clemens Schittko (DE), Ulrich Schlotmann (DE), Jenan Selcuk (CY), Constantinos Papageorgiou (CY), Andreas Timotheu (CY), Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo (FI), Henriikka Tavi (FI), Suvi Valli (FI), Ruzanna Voskanyan (AM),Kristina Posilovic (HR), Erinie Margariti (GR), Benediktas Janusvidius (LT), MARGENTO (RO), Mathias Traxler (CH), Steven J. Fowler (UK), Álvaro Seiça (PT), Jaap Blonk (NL), Ingamara Balode (LV), The Geminiis (FR), Avgi Lilli (CY), Angela Kaimaklioti (CY), Yiorgos Christodoulides (CY), Crauss (DE), Alexander Filyuta (DE), Jörg Piringer (AT), Christoph Szalay (AT), Florian Neuner (AT), Alexandra Salmela (FI), Paulina Haasjoki (FI), Marjo Niemi (FI), Martin Glaz Serup (DK), Alexis Stamatis (GR), Erikur Örn Norddahl (IS), Ailbhe Darcy (IE), Tone Hodnebo (NO), Josep Pedrals (ES), Mira Tuci (AL), Mikael Vogel (DE), Zeynep Köylü (TR)

2017 he conceptualized and organized the interdisciplinary digital-analogue chain poetry project „INTRE:TEXT“ amongst others with Charlotte warsen, Maren Kames, Nils Linschedt and Sabine Worthmann. Funded by the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

*1968 in Graz, Austria.

Degree in architecture (TU Graz), several years of participation and involvement with international competitions and teaching activity at the faculty of architecture (TU Graz). Artistic research and interventions in public space. Board member for HdA (House of architecture, Graz) since 2010. Chairwoman of the board of Forum Stadtpark since 2011. Founding member of Offener Betrieb Graz (Overt enterprise Graz) in 2013. Cofounder of the initiative Reiningherz in 2014. Founding member of the association Stadtdenker*innen (Citythinkers) in 2015. Working on society as an artistic everyday practice.

Florian Neuner was born 1972 in Wels, Austria; lives as a writer in Berlin. He works as a journalist for organisations such as Deutschlandradio; he and Ralph Klever publish the magazine Idiome. Hefte für Neue Prosa, devoted to advanced prose that goes beyond narrative clichés; he is also a member of the artists‘ union MAERZ in Linz, where he is curator of the literary programme maerz_sprachkunst. Neuner began publishing volumes of prose in 2001, in which montage techniques played an increasingly important role, culminating in Zitat Ende (2007). In recent years he has been intently studying the Ruhr District; he and Thomas Ernst have collaborated on two anthologies of regional literature: Europa erlesen: Ruhrgebiet (2009) and Das Schwarze sind die Buchstaben (2010). His latest publications are Ruhrtext. Eine Revierlektüre (2010), Satzteillager (2011), Moor (oder Moos) (2013), Inseltexte (2014) and Drei Tote (2017). In 2016 he published Chris Bezzel’s experimental novel namor and edited a volume on the Austrian writer Christian Steinbacher. In 2015 he taught at the Zurich University of the Arts. Together with the composer Harald Muenz and the Cologne based ensemble sprechbohrer he curated the project Autorenmusik with the intention to create a new repertoire of soound poetry. Neuner is currently concentrating on the theme of socialist urban utopias.

was born in Vienna and lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. While studying art and philosophy he began exploring the potentials of a dynamisation of the relationship of artwork and viewer. He developed the ”solo action”, a format between exhibition and performance, in which the spectator perspective as being opposite is dissolved into a point of view that is itself part of the artwork. With reference to ancient beginnings of the viewing dispositive of European art and theatre and a related partitioning of space that is still effective today, he pursues his research on sight and space with various means, from installation to sculpture, over performance and dance to photography and video. Together with Sandra Man he is working on an artistic practice that is based on the conception of space as happening, and which incorporates the bodies and senses of the audience: space choreography.

lives and works in Berlin, Vienna and Obervellach. After finishing her studies in literary criticism and philosophy she started working as an author and choreographer. She writes her texts for room installations and choreographies, they are spoken, sung and read by the audience. She is interested in poetry, language as sound and rhythm, written for voices and dancing bodies. Originating in her sensations and perceptions her poetry circles around the frailty and porosity of bodies, open for transformations in all organic and inorganic directions, from flesh to stone, from cell to planet. The texts are poetic reports of embodiements and at the same time mediations on a world-space that flows through everything. Such a moved and movable space is also the starting point for an understanding of choreography as a space-art, which she is working on together with Moritz Majce.

Daniela Seel, born 1974 in Frankfurt/Main, is a poet, translator, editor and publisher of kookbooks ‒ Lab for Poetry as Life Form. She frequently performs internationally and in collaboration with others. She published two volumes of poetry, ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden (I Cannot Find That Place Again), 2011, and was weißt du schon von prärie (What Do You Know About Prairie Actually), 2015, as well as, together with Frank Kasper, the radio feature was weißt du schon von prärie (What Do You Know About Prairie Actually), SWR/DLF 2015. For her work she received numerous grants and awards, e.g. the Art Prize Literature by Lotto Stiftung Brandenburg, the Friedrich Hölderlin Sponsorship Award by the City of Bad Homburg, two working grants by the City of Berlin, a Villa Aurora Fellowship, Los Angeles/CA, and the Reykjavík Residency Grant by the Goethe-Institute Copenhagen. Some of her poems have been translated into Polish, English, Slovak, Czech, French, Norwegian, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian. Daniela Seel lives in Berlin.