Schlögel, Karl

Born in 1948, Karl Schlögel studied Philosophy, Sociology and East European History in West-Berlin. Professor emeritus of East European History at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Earlier published works are Moskau lesen (1984) and Terror und Traum. Moskau 1937 (2008). His most recent publication in German is American Matrix (2023). In English: Moscow 1937 (Polity Press 2012), The Scent of Empires. Chanel No 5 and Red Moscow (Polity Press 2021), Ukraine. A Nation on the Borderland (Reaktion Books 2022) and The Soviet Century. Archeology of al Lost World (2023). 

Among his awards are the Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (2005), Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung (2009), Samuel-Bogumil-Linde-Preis (2010, together with Adam Krzemiński), Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse (2018) and Gerda Henkel Preis (2024).

Bose, Günter Karl

Günter Karl Bose, born in 1951 in Debstedt, Geestland, studied German literature and Political science in Freiburg / Breisgau. He was a publisher in Berlin (Brinkmann & Bose) from 1980 to 1995 and Professor of Typography and Head of the Institute of Book Art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1993 to 2018. He has been working as a designer since the early 1980s.

His graphic works have been shown in exhibitions in Germany and abroad and can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, the Folkwang Museum Essen and the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt a. M. He has written numerous media and cultural studies.

His most recent book of essays are Elementum. Über Typografie, Bücher und Buchstaben, .. als geborener Märker und Kind vom Lande”. Richard Dehmel, Kremmen und die Mark [1863-1920], Der Stadtpark Schöneberg as well as Franz Kafka im Ostseebad Müritz [1923].

Schlippenbach, Ulrich von

Ulrich Freiherr von Schlippenbach was born in Kurzeme (Courland) on May 7, 1774. He came from the nobility, the son of a captain in the Prussian army. From 1790 Ulrich von Schlippenbach studied law and verbal sciences at the Universities of Königsberg and Leipzig.

When the Kosciuszko Uprising began in 1794, Ulrich von Schlippenbach enlisted in the Russian Imperial Army and remained there subsequently as a member of the St. Petersburg Guard, only to resign after the death of Catherine II.

Returning to Courland, Ulrich Hermann Freiherr von Schlippenbach served as a land notary of the district of Pilten from 1799 to 1807, then from 1807 to 1818 as Landrat of Pilten, and after the annexation of the Pilten district to Courland, in 1818, he was a counselor of the Courland Oberhofgericht, and from 1822 on also the chairman of the Courland Committee, which drafted a set of local laws for the provinces of the Baltic States. He owned the estates of Ulmalen and Jamaiken.

On von Schlippenbach's initiative, the Gesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst was founded in 1816 in Mitau (Jelgava).

Schlippenbach died on March 20, 1826, in the city of Mitau. 

Müller, Eduard

Eduard Rudolf Müller, born in Zurich in 1953, studied art history and German literature at the University of Zurich and the Freie University of Berlin and completed his doctorate at the University of Potsdam on "Art and architecture in the lyrical work of Johannes Bobrowski".

Eduard Rudolf Müller was a monument conservator for the Canton of Uri for three decades, as well as a member of the Federal Swiss Commission for the Preservation of Monuments, the Federal Commission for the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage and President of ICOMOS Suisse.

He was a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Burgdorf, where he taught the "practical monument conservation" module in the postgraduate course in monument conservation. Since his retirement, Eduard Rudolf Müller has been researching the lyrical work of Johannes Bobrowski, in particular his poem "Report".

Schrey-Vasara, Gabriele

Born in Rheydt, Rhineland, in 1953, Gabriele Schrey-Vasara studied Romance philology, History and Finno-Ugric studies at the University of Göttingen 1972-1978.

She has been living in Helsinki since 1979. She worked as a librarian between 1987 and 2011, from 2011 to 2021 library director of the German Library Helsinki. Co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Finnisch-Deutsche Literaturbeziehungen.

Freelance translator from Finnish and Swedish to German since 1981. Finnish State Prize for Foreign Translators 2008.

Damm, Sigrid

Sigrid Damm, born in Gotha, Thuringia, lives as a freelance writer in Berlin and Mecklenburg. In 2010 she became honorary citizen of her home town Gotha, as the first woman.
The author is a member of the German P.E.N. and the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature.
She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Feuchtwanger, Mörike and Fontane Prizes. Her literary works focus mainly on the German classic writers of the 18th century; Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Wieland and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz from Livland, among them Vögel, die verkünden Land of which we have included the first two chapters.