Thomas Venker

Studied Sociology and Political Science at the University of Stuttgart. In 1993 he started the multimedia magazine Harakiri as well as freelancing for daily newspapers and magazines and publishing books. From 2000 till 2014 he acted as Editor-in-Chief of Intro Magazine, from 2011 till 2014 also as Director Media Content of the Hörstmann Unternehmensgruppe. He runs the three electronic labels onitor, Scheinselbständig and Cereal/Killers as well as the Art imprint Edition Fieber. He contributes on a regular basis to Spex and Groove magazine.

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Linus Volkmann

Linus Volkmann was born 1973 in Frankfurt/Main. He published fanzines and moved to Cologne. In the new century he met his fate in the shape of Thomas Venker. Together they set fire to the popcultural magazine Intro - but in a good way. Linus Volkmann also wrote certain books and is one of Germany's most important authors in the popscene. He likes snails and drinking.

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Jens Friebe

Most of all Jens Friebe is a pop musician. At the end of 2014 he published his fifth album „Nackte Angst Zieh Dich An Wir Gehen Aus“ . There is also a long gone book of said to be autobiographic stories of him called , „52 Wochenenden“ (published 2006 from Kiwi, in 2008 in a so called "kritischer Ausgabe" by Verbrecher Verlag). Besides that Friebe is a regular author for daily newspapers and monthly magazines like Intro, FAZ, TAZ, Freitag, Jungle World and so on.

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Jonathan Forsythe

Jonathan Forsythe is a Canadian born artist photographer based in New York for over a decade - he lived already in Williamsburg when cabs drivers denied to go over the bridge. He loves cats, bad weather and of course shooting for Kaput.

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Phillip Sollmann

Producer and DJ, well known for his beautiful, very romantic Techno works for Dial Records. A true lover of Detroit Techno und Chicago House. In a earlier life he was a very special HipHop writer and did meet in this function the ones like Common and Timbaland for a chat.

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Claus Richter

Claus Richter is an artist and author living and working in Cologne. He adores the years 1900, 1910, 1977 and 1982. His next show is named "Ignoranz" ("Ignorance") and will open in April 2015 in the gallery Clages, Cologne.

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Alexander Festivalhall

Possessed by a weakness for sentences and a passion for pop, Alexander M. can be found trying to connect the dots (so you don't have to) from Kaput's London office. Working under the name "Alexander's Festival Hall" (because everyone should have their own arts venue, right?) - he writes and produces elegant and unfashionable songs that would make lovely gifts for the perennially wistful or near broken-hearted.

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Dana Bönisch

Has worked in the past for magazines such as jetzt, Spex and Intro, has published short fiction and a novel (Rocktage") She is currently a staff member of the Comparative Literature department at the University of Bonn and is working on a PhD project that explores narratives of terrorism from the 1970s until the 'war on terror'. From 2013 to 2014, she held a Visiting Fellowship at the IGRS, University of London.

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Martin Riemann

Incredible dancer, hot lover, fan of woman-prison-flics and -series, and after all the ideal cast for excentric popstar with binge abysses. There is the legend that Martin Riemann managed to let even the Happy Mondys come around as early-retired-men.

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Katja Ruge

Katja Ruge is a veteran of the german music photography. Within her portfolio you find works for all leading music papers like Intro, Spex and Groove. The born north german (close to the city of Hamburg) found her way to photography via apprenticeships as photo laboratory and graphic designer. She is influenced by the photography of the late 80s and early 90s, especially the ones from folks like Herb Ritts, Wayne Maser, Bert Stern, Robert Lebeck and F.C. Gundlach (whom she was able to photograph once) - but definitely found her own way. In the centre of her pictures you will always find the person of interest and the specific atmosphere of the moment.

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Peter Abs

Texts for magazines, record labels, galleries. Former art columnist with Spex, now overreactions and tra-la-la with Kaput.

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Justus Köhncke

Justus Köhncke startet off as one third of the band Whirlpool Productions. Since 1999 until now he exists and works as a solo artist in the fields of production, performing and djing. His style is unique as he is settled between the pols Disco, House Music, Techno, Pop/" German Schlager" and sound experiments. In other words: a niche for himself. Most people do not know: long before getting unplanned in the career stream of an existence as a musician, Justus Köhncke started writing for spex magazine in 1986 as well as a city paper - for the young student a way to get free records, guest lists and a interview slot with Nico. When asked to write a column for Kaput, he was seduced by the term "Carte Blanche" as he thinks nothing is more boring as just writing about music.

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John Stanier

Following the talk of the streets, Stanier is one of the best drummers in world. And who are we to talk against this opinion? It comes with a majestic beauty what he conjures out of his set up for his bands Battles and Tomahawk (and in the past for Helmet). A true man of passion - exactly that chased him in the arms of Kaput. He is our first International Staff Writer - which means as much as: he is the man for the most difficult interview missions.

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Alex Lemieux

Our man in Qubec, Canada. A real fighter for the independence of the french-canadian region. Lives and works right now in Berlin, half time as a dj booker, half time as the road manager of Tensnake.

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Sarah Szczesny

Artist from Cologne and member of Cómeme. Works with antique artbooks for a living. Designed the Kaput signet and takes care of collages. At the moment she is looking for a new studio.

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Vivan Thi Tang

Vivan Thi Tang is currently based in London via Brooklyn while pursuing a MA in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths University of London. She is a Special Projects Producer and Creative Brand Consultant. You could reach her on twitter like this: @vivanthitang

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Lars Fleischmann

Born on some day in the 80s in Cologne. For a refreshing change he travels from time to time with two friends under the imprint Kame House around the world to play records and invites bands from Hamburg, New York, Melbourne and Tokio to play in King Georg. While supposed to write invoices and do some boring office stuff, he prefers to write about music and films and to forget everything he did learn in his unfinished studies.

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Michael Schleeh

Former band member of Foetus Features, Bhang Dextro and Mink Stole. Energetic man behind the asian film blog Schneeland as well as author for Filmgazette, Hard Sensations and Negativ.

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Roman Szczesny

Studies art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Marcel Odenbach.

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Max Freudenschuss

From Monday till Friday Max Freudenschuß is following a regular job. He is married and got one son. Statisticly he will live 39 more years - and he will give his best to use this time for melancholy. His hobbies are music (current favorite label is Planet Mu), chatting and online chess. Search and find him on Facebook, he loves new friends.

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Anton Teichmann

Born and raised in Berlin. Studied Political Science, but decided to go for the great possibilities of music industry. Worked so far with some Berlin based independent labels and agencies. Lately he started his own label Mansions and Millions. Sometimes Anton is hosting DIY concerts, he manages bands, on tour and also at home.

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Sebastian Ingenhoff

Sebastian Ingenhoff is a Cologne based author of fiction and nonfiction. He runs together with Roland Wilhelm the Tapelabel Camp Magnetics and the Techno imprint Camp Inc..

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Tobias Fritzsche

Tobias Fritzsche studied Political Science in Aachen before starting his acting career at the Stadttheater Aachen. With the ensemble of Schauspiel Köln hewon the Theaterpreis 2009. He produced several radio plays for WDR and Deutschlandradio Kultur. Tobias Fritzsche has been the singer of S.C. Hund and right now is singer and keyboarder of "Die Ölmöven".

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Oliver Tepel

Owns his great youth to Steve Strange. if not writing, finding things, rehearsal dances or watching soccer with his cat, he dreams of visiting a Dosso Dossi exhibition in Paris and for once talking to Robert Hunter.

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Infinite Greyscale Records

Founded in 2011 by Paul McDevitt (right in the picture) and Cornelius Quabeck with David Hubbard, Infinite Greyscale Records is an artist run record label based in Berlin and Düsseldorf. In 2014 they released the limited edition 10" "Body Sound by" Holly Herndon.

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Saskia Timm

Saskia Timm was born in Hamburg. She traded a possible school exam against the fancy world of Noise-Label Amphetamine Reptile Records. After several failures to pay of her "deckle" at the Mutter bar in Hamburg with either djing or bar tendering, she left the city by night to Berlin. The last years she hangs around a lot on Facebook and works on her first book. If you wanna hang with Saskia Timm, the night is the right time. The biggest success in life so far: winning the „Low Budget Video of the Year 1997“ of VIVA tv station with her clip for Happy Grindcore.

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Christina Mohr

CM lives and works in Frankfurt/Main, where she also was born some decades ago. Besides kaput she writes for Spex, Missy Magazine, die an.schlaege and culturmag.de, loves bumblebees, is neither able to bake a cake nor drive a car and is still considering a late career as crazy catwoman in Cornwall.

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Aida Baghernejad

Lives an unspectacular Easyjetset-lifestyle commuting between Berlin and London. Writes about food, popular culture and the world we live in for a variety of magazines. When she’s not climbing from deadline to deadline, she works on her PhD on Street Food and the Creative Industry at King’s College.

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Carolin Winzbeck

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Mario Lasar

Mario Lasar is known for his master knowledge of Sound Magazine (a very important German music magazine from the 70s) as well as „Der-Kommissar“ (German thriller tv series). He studied Germanistic and Anglistic, but somehow missed the train to a full-time job. He tries to forget that fact by writing for music magazines and living from the fame coming along with that. The beard on the photo is all fake by the way.

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Lisa Schmidt-Herzog

Studies English and German philology as well as science of art, but also feels called to put in her two cents in the fields of fashion, music and society. Offers priceless performance at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities when she investigates phenomena of mediatization plus their effects and, en passant, develops expert knowledge on copiers and coffee machines. Has good ideas the world isn’t ready for yet, but make haste slowly and Rome wasn’t built in a day either, which is why many roads are leading there. Lisa loves sayings.

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Roman Lehnhof

Lives and writes in Cologne.

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Mesut Gürsoy

Mesut Gürsoy is a Berlin based songwriter and musician. He worked in the past with East Cameron Folkore, Felidae Trick and Roman Fischer, right now he is the live drummer of the Audiolith Electro-Pop duo Tubbe.

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Ben De Biel

Is a Berlin based documentary-fotografer since 1990. Primarily he is documenting his own, and the life of his friends and enviroment. He is taken picutres where he is at the moment and what impresses him most on this places. He does not arrange any of his pictures either searching for stories to shoot. He loves fotografy and try to refuse contract work.

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Friedemann Dupelius

Friedemann Dupelius lives in Cologne and likes letters and sounds. He turns them to texts and radio features, radio plays and music as Friday Dunard. He's aiming for careers as a sportswriter and palaeontologist.

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Michel Leuffen

ML writes regularly for publications such as Groove, or Stw2d, curates the Carhartt WIP Radio show and is responsible for the monthly radio show 150Session on Radio Cómeme and NTS Radio.

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Frank Spilker

Frank Spilker is a member of Hamburg based band Die Sterne and an author of the critical acclaimed book "Es interessiert mich nicht, aber das kann ich nicht beweisen".

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Henje Richter

Being raised an indie kid, Henje Richter these days blogs about electronic music on bleepsbloops.com and is a regular author at Intro magazine. In his other life, he is working at the Computer Games Museum in Berlin and writing his PhD thesis in museum theory.

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Abel Auer

The visual artist Abel Auer started in the 90s in Hamburg the artist group Akademie Isotrop. In the 00s he worked with Kai Althoff, Armin Krämer and Dorota Jurcza on several projects. After years in Brussels he is now relocaded in South Germany and involved in he local music scene - which should be understood as a critic on the art world. In 2014 he started the art room "Staub", located within the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, part salon, part workshop, part exhibition room - the last under the imprint Galerie Claire Lacroix.

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Nadine Schildhauer

Nadine Schildhauer left the German side kick town of Lutherstadt for Berlin to study politics and philosophy on the fast lane. Since then she is stranded in town and produces thoughts other people print or put online. That’s the story.

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Alex Wissel

Alex Wissel is an artist and works in pr for Lederlust, Single Club, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Klüngel.

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Christian Meyer-Pröpstl

Born 1970 in Cologne. Studied History of Art. Published about art, but soon switched to music journalism (De:Bug, intro, various City Journals). Then he startet as a filmcritic (Filmdienst, Zeit-Online, intro, various City Journals). Since then, he tries to write equally about music, movies and his third passion comics (Strapazin, Filmdienst, various City Journals).

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Fatma Erkus

Fatma is f***ing intelligent, uber-cool, unbelievably handsome, super funny and has both amazing style and excellent taste. Also she is notoriously single. ALAWP | BOX 28064212

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Thomas Praus

Thomas Praus ist a DJ, blogger and is working with the internets. His favorite saying is: "writing about music is like dancing to architecture". You find him as @stylewalker and on http://www.p3000.net

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Amira El-Kordy

Amira lives in Düsseldorf where she just finished her studies in linguistics. While she is figuring out what her professional future could look like, she does a bit of this and that around music, culture and children. Among other things, she works for Open Source Festival, at Tonhalle Düsseldorf and occasionally writes for indie magazine Crazewire.

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Jon Berry

Jon Berry comes from the depths of southern Alberta and now resides in Berlin. Somehow he convinced the music industry to allow him to work in it, so thats what he does for a living. He loves pony rides, long walks in the ocean and writing about music he knows absolutely nothing about.

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Felix Klopotek

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Andre Bosse

When André Boße (1974) discovered his love affair with pop music, the Thompson Twins were the big thing. And when he got into soccer, the HSV was a real big player team. It is obvious that one has to cultivate a critical position coming from those points of view. That said: Andre loves to watch soccer as a hobby and make a living from writing about music for several magazines. He lives and works in Cologne.

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Bianca Xenia Jankovska

After one year shift work for the biggest german news house Bianca Xenia Jankovska was sick of all this "more of the same" content and said goodbye. Now she goes full-time for the shabby sides of life, pop culture and food.

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Julian Gerhard

In addition to all 120 stars at Mario 64, Julian Gerhard owns a study graduation of Scenic Research. The great music magazins Wah2 and Zwobot have prepared him for life – today he is devoting himself to artistic journalistic hybridizations, such as radio features or devising theatre.

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Paula Irmschler

Paula Irmschler was born in east-germany, but she's okay. Now she's living in cologne and where she babysits jackets in a club. She studies political science and does facebook things. She writes for Intro, Musikexpress, laut.de and Neues Deutschland. Pfeffi!

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Jonas Eickhoff

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Michael Kolepke

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Christoph Voy

Christoph Voy, Berlin born and based photographer. Working and shooting Rock`n Roll life for 15 years now. Startingcrew of Vice Germany in 2006, steadily working for Vice, Intro, Spex and others. Taking pictures for the Berlin rap group K.I.Z. since 10 years. Trying to shoot all rock icons who are still alive.

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Danielle de Picciotto

Danielle de Picciotto is an American musician living in Berlin. In 1998, she founded the Love Parade with Dr Motte. From 1990 till 1995 she was the singer of the HipHop band Space Cowboys. In 1996 she founded the Ocean Club together with Gudrun Gut and since 2001 her parnter in crime has been Alexander Hacke from Einstüzende Neubauten. Since 2015 her solo albums are being represented by Moabit Records. Danielle has been touring the world since 1995 with her concert performances and interdisciplinary projects.

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Timor Kaul

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Britta Tekotte

Britta Tekotte is Voice- & Rhetoric-Coach, Speaker and Author and sometimes also plays music with friends, she lives in Cologne. www.brittatekotte.de

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Sabine Schiffer

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Lukas Klemp

Studies Popular Music and Media in Paderborn and writes about pop music, celluloid and everything that appears to be erroneous. Apart from kaput, his texts also appear in Spex, JUICE and ALL GOOD.

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Antoniodeluca

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Jeden Tag ein Rant

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Kevin Goonewardena

Doin‘ his thing since the mid 2000s, starting with Punk-fanzines just as Trust, Ox and Drachenmädchen, now covering a wide range of on- and offline publications. Print still matters, ok? Wasted years in the middle of nowhere to study culture management where van Gogh lived for about two month far before his breakthrough and Bluetooth is said to have been invented. He covers especially Techno, German HipHop and stories from the margins of society within his work. Lives and works in the city of Hamburg.

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Maurice Funken

Pop culture enthusiast, comic book reader and studied art historian. In 2018 Maurice Funken became director of NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, curating contemporary art exhibitions.

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Thomas Weidenhaupt

Thomas Weidenhaupt is a photographer and wannabe-DJ living in Aachen. He likes electronic music, art, queer culture and books and dreams of living in a proper city someday. Thomas

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Silvia Silko

With Nirvanas "Nevermind" Silvia didn't just found an outlet for her Teenage Angst, she also got some career inspiration: music journalist. After studying German, Philosophy, Pop and finishing her traineeship at a lifestlye magazine, she writes for taz, Musikexpress and Noizz about Traveling and Culture but still likes best to write about Pop.

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Marta Hrecznyj

One part vagabond, one part jack-of-all-trades-and-master-of-none, Marta Hrecznyj likes to go wherever ever the wind blows, and the music and art follow. Partially living in the same derelict neighborhood her Ukrainian family emigrated to, she finds beauty in the timeworn, bizarre, and happenstance. After years of one-off creative writing collaboration projects, she finds herself doing some of her own writing projects due to legitimate requests. Whether it’s volunteering as a host & hausmeister at a research residency in Detroit, doing production at brochure factories, working an Art Assistant in Brussels, or strapping down at corporate contract jobs in Battle Creek, Michigan, she celebrates the unexpected and is happy to see where things go next.

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Wolfgang Frömberg

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Andrew Duke

Andrew Duke has been writing about music since 1981. Duke has been a columnist for a variety of magazines including Vice, Weekly Dig, and Streetsound (US), Eve and Tuck Shop (UK), Dalhousie Gazette and Cognition (Canada). He has contributed to a plethora of magazines around the world including Computer Music and Magic Feet (UK), Shout (Italy), Plastik (Poland), XZ (Yugoslavia/Serbia), House of Techno (France), XLR8R, Urb, e/i, Grooves, Igloo, Shovel, Net, Under One Sky, Trip, Hardsync, Fix, Worldly Remains, More Sugar, and Angbase (US), GCFC (Guild of Canadian Film Composers) Spotting Notes, Exclaim, The Coast, Electric Atlantic, Klublife, Velocity, and Profile (Canada), and many others. More informations: http://andrewdukeinthemix.com

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Felix Nisblé

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hansnieswandt

Hans Nieswandt. Dj. Producer. Head gonzo at Institut für Populäre Musik der Folkwang Universität der Künste.

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MarleneStark

Marlene Stark is a dj, producer and author. Soon there will be a release on Berlin based label Eine Welt and on the Danish imprint Music for Dreams. At the beginning of 2019 Marlene released her first book, "M", together with author Anna Gien.

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Annett Scheffel

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Julia Lorenz

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Peltsch

Fabian Peltsch works and lives in Beijing and Berlin. As culture and music journalist and Co-founder of the international media startup "Subtropical Asia" he tries to realign our idea of "world music" by giving global perspectives on pop culture that aren't getting lost in exotic imaginations. He frequently contributes to music, art and news media outlets within Germany and China like Rolling Stone, Musikexpress, PIQD and RADII.

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Veronique Homann

It is due to her anti-career in music journalism that Veronique Homann discovered the Throbbing Gristle questionnaire while working in a Berlin record shop and then turned it into the starting point of her eleven-part interview series. It took her four years to complete this project. In the meantime, she wrote "word systems", had exhibitions in a bar and a museum (but never in a gallery) and published in the Viennese street magazine Augustin.

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