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Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

 is a sociologist living in Munich. She has held professorships in Germany, the United Kingdom and Norway and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of Munich. She rose to international fame with her studies on new forms of family life, including “The normal chaos of life”, (1990, with Ulrich Beck); “Reinventing the family – in search of new lifestyles” (2002), and “Individualization – institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences” (2002, with Ulrich Beck).  

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Najem Wali

born 1956 in Basra, Iraq, was detained and tortured as a dissident in his home country. He fled to Germany in 1980 when the Iraq-Iran war broke out. In 1988 he completed his studies in German literature in Hamburg and later his studies in Spanish literature in Madrid. He worked as the cultural correspondent for the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat for many years and regularly contributes for newspapers and magazines such as Süddeutsche Zeitung, NZZ, taz, and Der Spiegel. He has published numerous novels and short stories and lives and works as a freelance author and journalist in Berlin.

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Philipp Blom

geboren 1970 in Hamburg, Studium der Philosophie, Geschichte und Judaistik in Wien und Oxford, Promotion in Geschichte. Blom lebte und arbeitete in London und Paris als Autor und Journalist, seit 2006 in Wien. International bekannt wurde er mit seinen mehrfach ausgezeichneten Sachbüchern über die Aufklärung, den Ersten Weltkrieg und die Zwischenkriegszeit. Daneben verfasste er mehrere Romane. Publikationen u.a.: „Der taumelnde Kontinent. Europa 1900–1914“ (2009), „Böse Philosophen. Ein Salon in Paris und das vergessene Erbe der Aufklärung“ (2011), „Die zerrissenen Jahre. 1918–1938“ (2014), „Bei Sturm am Meer“ (Roman, 2016). Zuletzt erschienen: „Gefangen im Panoptikum - Reisenotizen zwischen Aufklärung und Gegenwart" (2017).

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