Berlin Dayz

Anna Funder is the author of Stasiland. Her debut novel, All That I Am, won the 2012 Miles Franklin Award.

Anna Funder was born in Melbourne in 1966. She has worked as an international lawyer and documentary film-maker. In 1997 she was writer-in-residence at the Australia Centre in Potsdam. She lives in Sydney.

Wladimir Kaminer is the author of Russian Disco.

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early 90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the migrants in the explosive and extraordinary multicultural atmosphere of 90s Berlin.

The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. Kaminer speaks about the offbeat personal events of his own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times.

Bas Böttcher is one of the best known slam and rap poets.

Böttcher has won the German Poetry Slam Prize time and time again. He was awarded scholarships by the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.

His Textbox, a man-size Plexiglas capsule with translation screens is a new, innovative portable, sound-proof performance space which enables him to entertain headphone-wearing audiences and to connect literature with the audience in a new and innovative way.

Carsten Beyer is a Berlin based radio host, producer and reporter.

He currently works for rbb inforadio and rbb Kulturradio (Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Berlin) and - Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin. His interests include society and the arts, especially music and film.