Sibylle Berg is a Swiss author and playwright. She writes novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns.
Stefan Aust is a German journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to February 2008 and has been the publisher of the conservative leading Die Welt newspaper since 2014 and the paper's editor until December 2016.
Viktor Pietschmann was an Austrian ichthyologist at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. He was the curator of the fish collection from 1919 to 1946 and made collecting trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Hawaii, Romania, and Poland. Pietschmann described many new fish, including several species of shark, and had more than 50 publications over his career. He served in the Austrian army in World War I, during which he was stationed in the Ottoman Empire. While there, Pietschmann witnessed the Armenian genocide and took many photographs of the deportees. He joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1932 and remained a member until the end of World War II.
Grigoris Balakian 1875 – 8 October 1934), was a bishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church, in addition to being a survivor and memoirist of the Armenian genocide.
Günter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
Erich Feigl was an Austrian documentary film producer and author. He produced almost 60 documentaries, mostly for the Austrian ORF but some for BR (Bavarian), ZDF (German) and TRT in co-production. He authored books about the Habsburgs, whose restoration he supported, and the historical fact of the Armenian genocide, which he denied until his death.
Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and author.
Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.
Michael Hesemann is a German journalist and author. In the late 1980s he became known in Germany as an author of several books on UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors on Earth. Later in his career he turned to topics related to Catholicism.
Jutta Richter is a German author of children's and youth literature.
Tilman Zülch is a German human rights activist. He is the founder and general secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP).
Aghet – Ein Völkermord is a 2010 German documentary film on the Armenian genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors. The visual material partly consists of secretly shot photographs of the death marches, Turkish atrocities and suffering of the Armenian deportees.
Jakob Augstein is a German heir, journalist and publisher.
Erich Kuby was a German journalist, publisher and screenwriter.
Markus Gasser is an Austrian literary scholar and author.
Bettina Irene Kudla is a German politician. She has served as a Member of Federal Parliament for Leipzig from Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) since 27 September 2009. Bettina Kudla joined the Parliament with 33.3% of the vote at the 2009 election and she was elected again with 40% of the vote at the 2013 election.
Jan Wagner, is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize, and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Peter Hamm was a German poet, author, journalist, editor, and literary critic. He wrote several documentaries, including ones about Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. He wrote for the German weekly newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others. From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He was also a jury member of literary prizes, and critic for a regular literary club of the Swiss television company Schweizer Fernsehen.
Norbert Miller is a German scholar of literature and art. He was professor of literary studies at the Technische Universität Berlin from 1973 and retired in 2006.
During World War I, Imperial Germany was a military ally of the Ottoman Empire, which perpetrated the Armenian genocide. Many Germans present in eastern and southern Anatolia witnessed the genocide, but censorship and self-censorship hampered these reports, while German newspapers reported Turkish denial of the massacres. The idea of German co-responsibility as a perpetrator of the genocide has been proposed, but rejected by other scholars. Although individual Germans tried to publicize the Armenians' fate or save lives, the German state has been criticized for "extreme moral indifference" to the plight of Armenians and not doing anything to stop the genocide. In 2016, the Bundestag apologized for Germany's "inglorious role" in a resolution recognizing the genocide.
