Professor Wolfgang Sofsky is a sociologist, journalist and writer. He was professor of Sociology at Göttingen and Erfurt Universities, and contributes regularly to papers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Welt etc. His habilitation »The Order of Terror« was awarded the prestigious Geschwister-Scholl Prize in 1993. In 2015 he is the inaugural winner of the Holbach Prize for his lifetime achievements as a writer. His books have been translated into several languages. Agent: Christian Dittus Books ABGRÜNDE Einfälle, Ausfälle, Gedankenfälle Essays CreateSpace (January 2016)348 pp [...]

Edgar Snow (1905-1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles about the Communist revolution in China. He was the first Western journalist to interview Mao Zedong, and is best known for his book »Red Star Over China« (1938), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s. During the McCarthy years it became increasingly difficult for Snow to publish in the USA. He moved to Switzerland in 1959 after writing his autobiography »Journey to the Beginning« (1958). In »The Long Revolution« (1972), published posthumously, he wrote about his last trip [...]

HOLGER SIEMANN was born in Leipzig in 1962. He studied philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin, was an officer in the GDR army, and worked as an actor, social worker, social scientist, and journalist. He is the author of several radio plays, radio features, and libretti, as well as two novels. Holger Siemann lives in Berlin and in rural Uckermark north of Berlin. www.schreiberey.de Agent: Christian Dittus Books DAS WEISZHEITHAUS Ein Jahrhundertroman Novel Dörlemann (2017) 730 pp HE WEISZHEIT HOUSE Novel of a Century Like the [...]

Alexandra Senfft worked as Middle East aide in the German Parliament, as an observer for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Israeli occupied Westbank and as UNRWA spokeswoman in the Gaza Strip during the First Intifada. She was also a TV-journalist. She published »Schweigen tut weh. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte« (2007) about the NS-past of her grandparents (Deutscher Biographiepreis [German Biography Award] 2008). In 2009 she portrayed Palestinians and Israelis in dialogues in »Fremder Feind, so nah« (edition Körber-Stiftung). Senfft writes for diverse daily newspapers, political journals and online publications – in German [...]