Helene Falk holds a doctorate in law and is a former judge. She was born in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1985. She now lives and works in Stuttgart, her adopted home.

Megumi Maria Loy was born in Japan but grew up mainly in Germany and has been working as a freelance artist under the name Megumi_M for several years. Her focus is on figurative representations in different styles that bring together the aesthetics of two cultures. She is particularly fond of conveying emotions and personalities and utilising the possibilities of modern media to create both digital paintings and animations. Since 2019, you can watch her create her works on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/megumi_m) and elsewhere.

Marie Sand is the pseudonym of Gabriele Borgmann. She studied art history, worked in newspaper editorial offices and was involved for many years in a political foundation for the realisation of human rights in South Asia. She has been advising non-fiction authors on concept and style since 2009. In 2022, she published her first novel about a quiet heroine. It was the start of a series.

C. C. Bergius (Egon Maria Zimmer) was born in Buehr (Westphalia) in 1910. His first book was about the life of the Mongol prince Genghis Khan (1951). Travelling to Malaysia, Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam inspired the author to write numerous great novels such as Der Fälscher and Heißer Sand which were translated into 19 languages and achieved a total international circulation of over 15 million copies.

Anja Tsokos was born in a country that no longer exists. At least that's the answer she gives her children when they ask her about it. She was born in 1973 in Oschatz, Saxony. At the age of six, her family moved to Moscow as her parents were working in the diplomatic service of the GDR. Shortly before reunification, the family returned to East Germany. Anja Tsokos has lived in Berlin since the 1990s, where she met forensic scientist Michael Tsokos, whom she married in 2010.

Dr. Ulrike Bossmann is a psychologist, systemic therapist, positive psychology coach and author. She has a doctorate in dealing with dilemmas, has been coaching and training executives and private individuals for over ten years, and has published her research on resilience in everyday (professional) life in numerous articles and books. On the online platform soulsweet, she advises people on mental health issues and makes scientifically proven strategies for increasing well-being flexibly accessible from anywhere and at any time.

Anton Börner was President of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services until October 2020, with a brief interruption from mid-2017 to mid-2019. For him, the international dissemination of the principles of the social market economy, the strengthening of intercultural exchange and the continuation of the dialogue between politics, business and the church are important topics of our time.

Dr. Tanja Kinkel, born 1969 in Bamberg. Studied German language and literature, drama and communication studies, 8 cultural and literary awards, since 2021 recipient of the Bavarian Order of Merit. Scholarships in Rome, Los Angeles and at the script writing class in the Munich University of Television and Film, Munich; guest lecturer at colleges and universities in Germany and abroad, President of the International Feuchtwanger Society. Tanja Kinkel's oeuvre includes 20 novels with a print run of over 7 million; her books have been translated into 15 languages.

Julia Dessalles grew up in a creative environment between the wildly romantic Mediterranean island of Corsica and Baden-Württemberg. Making up stories, drawing and making music were already part of her childhood. Although the fine arts were always close to her heart, she studied medicine in Germany and France. After graduating as Doctoris medicinae, she worked in the paediatric clinic, focusing on premature and newborn babies, as well as in the paediatric intensive care unit. With the birth of her two children, her life focus shifted to the family.