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.

Edith Schreiber-Wicke, grew up in Steyr (Upper Austria), studied theatre studies and art history in Vienna. She first wrote advertising texts, then as a freelance author she wrote short stories, poetry, novels, screenplays, children's and youth literature. She has received numerous Austrian and international prizes for her work.
The author lives in Vienna, Grundlsee and Venice.

The writer and journalist Dr. Wolfgang Herles wrote six socially critical novels as well as numerous, mainly political non-fiction books. Wir sind kein Volk was on the Spiegel Besteller list for weeks. His criticism of the quota mania of the public service media Die Gefallsüchtigen fuelled the current debate. Most recently - in 2019 - his cultural history of German cuisine Vorwiegend festkochend was published.

"But nobody knows me at all.

Steven Thomsen is a freelance journalist and author. Born in Darmstadt in 1969, the German-American has been publishing interdisciplinary articles in newspapers and magazines such as "Computerwoche", "Die Welt", "Management und Training", "Stuttgarter Zeitung", "Rheinische Post", "Publik-Forum" or "Journalistik" since the nineties. As a senior editor and proofreader for a Bavarian publishing house, he worked intensively in the field of pop culture for several years. The studied literary scholar is also a connoisseur of German and North American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Erica Lillegg (1907-1988) is considered a pioneer of German-language fantastic children's and youth literature with works such as Erika und Erik, Die Spieldose, Feuerfreund, Jakob war ein Schusterjunge and Peps. Lillegg opened doors to the supernatural, the exorbitant, the insane and the dreamlike for her young protagonists. Lillegg developed her interest in fantasy further in the artistic salon she ran with her husband, the painter Edgar Jené, in Vienna before emigrating to France. André Breton and Paul Celan were among their friends.

Claus Cornelius Fischer, born in Berlin in 1951, attended a Jesuit boarding school in Westphalia until his Abitur and then a journalism school in Munich. After graduating, he worked as a freelance journalist for "Die Welt" and "Die Zeit", among others, and as a translator of American novels before establishing himself as a screenwriter and novelist. The crime series about the Amsterdam Commissaris Bruno van Leeuwen is also internationally successful. He died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 69..