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.

Dark stories and the darkness of history lie close together for Iver Niklas Schwarz. Whether as a thriller writer or as an archaeologist under his real name: Wherever Iver sets his tools to work, he encounters riddles and secrets, mysteries and hidden things - and sometimes even death.
Iver Niklas Schwarz lives with his wife and two tomcats in the heart of Germany on a farm that has experienced unnatural deaths, an epidemic and a major fire in the last hundred years. In addition to his work as a novelist, Iver is also active as a story provider for crime and escape games.

Martin Ehrenhauser, born 1978 in Linz, is a former EU Member of Parliament and author. He lives in Brussels and Linz.

Bente Storm is the pseudonym of two successful authors. They met at a writing camp on the Mecklenburg Lake District and have since left their mark together in northern Germany. After criminal stations on Sylt and in Lübeck, in Flensburg and Helgoland, they have now found a new criminal home in Cuxhaven. In addition to crime novels, the two also write non-fiction, radio plays and thrillers.

Fabian Neidhardt was born in 1986, the first of four into a Polish-Italian family. After a traineeship in broadcasting, he studied elocution and communication pedagogy at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart as well as literary writing at the Literature Institute in Hildesheim. Until May 2019, he completed training as a storyliner at the UFA Series School in Potsdam. Since 2010, he has been sitting with his typewriter in pedestrian zones as a street poet, writing texts on demand.