Juli Zeh is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as The Method (2009), Unterleuten (2016) and About People (2021).
Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.
Peter Stamm is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the International Booker Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.
Dietmar Dath is a German author, journalist and translator.
Elisabeth Mohn is a German billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. She was married to Reinhard Mohn until his death in 2009.
Otto Willi Gail was a German science journalist and author.
Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter, literary critic and journalist. She has written audio plays, a magazine column, scripts for television plays and books. Heidenreich is known as the Kabarettist who created a character, Else Stratmann. She is a literary critic in the television Literaturclub of the Schweizer Fernsehen.
The Bremen Literature Prize is a German literary award. The prize money is €25,000.
Gaming Instinct is a 2004 novel by the German writer Juli Zeh. The story is set in a private high school in Bonn. Intellectually precocious girl Ada and new classmate Alef band together through their mutual interest in Game theory and apply it by blackmailing a teacher into a sexual relationship with her.
Brigitte Kronauer was a German writer who lived in Hamburg. Her novels, written in the tradition of Jean Paul with artful writing and an ironic undertone, were awarded several prizes, including in 2005 the Georg Büchner Prize, in 2011 the Jean-Paul-Preis and in 2017 the Thomas Mann Prize.
Friedrich Christian Delius, also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were translated into English, including The Pears of Ribbeck and Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman. His awards include the Georg Büchner Prize of 2011.
Elfriede Brüning was a German communist journalist and novelist. She also used the pseudonym Elke Klent.
Brigitte Boehme is a German lawyer and church administrator. She was the president of the Kirchenausschuss of the Bremische Evangelische Kirche from 2001 to 2013.
Wolfgang Herrndorf was a German author, painter, and illustrator.
Jörg Dräger is a German physicist, non-partisan economic conservative politician and manager. From 2001 to 2008 he served as a senator in the Hamburg state government. From 2008 to 2021 he has been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board where he is responsible for the areas of education and integration. Dräger is considered a leading education expert and is the author of numerous books on education policy, including the impacts of digitization.
Nichts von euch auf Erden is a 2013 novel by the German writer Reinhard Jirgl. It is set in the 25th century and tells the story of how human settlers on Mars return to Earth in an aggressive manner.
Sören Sieg is a German tenor, songwriter, composer, arranger, satirist, columnist and writer. He is a co-founder of the a cappella group LaLeLu, in which he sang as a tenor and hosted the performances from 1994 to 2012. From 2009 to 2013, he regularly wrote a front page column for the Bremer Newspaper. In the meantime, he works mainly as a freelance writer and composer.
Simon Urban is a German novelist.
Iris Wolff is a German writer.
