Michael Moorcock and Alan Moore, courtesy of Mark von Schlegell.

Contemporary writer  Mark von Schlegell is a dual Irish and American citizen. He was born in New York and lives in Cologne, Germany. He is the author of the novels Venusia (2005) and Mercury Station (2009) published by M.I.T./Semiotext(e). Venusia was honor’s listed for the 2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Prize in science fiction. His experimental fiction and cultural criticism appear regularly in the international art community. Realometer (2009), a collection of literary essays on Poe, Melville and James Tiptree, Jr. is available from Merve Verlag, Berlin in German.

photo courtesy of Chris Harvey

Chris Harvey spent 2008-2009 in Berlin on a Fulbright fellowship for fiction writing. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Third Coast, Fourteen Hills, the San Francisco Weekly, and other publications.

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Stefan Sirucek is a freelance journalist and writer who can generally be found somewhere between Boston and Berlin.  He is a regular contributor of news and opinion pieces to the Huffington Post.

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Ralph Martin is a writer and journalist who has lived in Berlin since 2003. His book EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN: WIE EIN NEW YORKER LERNTE, DIE DEUTSCHEN ZU LIEBEN, was published at the end of 2009 by Dumont Verlag. His forthcoming book about fatherhood in contemporary Germany, LULU UND ICH, will appear in Autumn 2010 from Piper Verlag. He has written about Berlin in the New York Times and Travel & Leisure and has written extensively for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Read more at his website: ralphmartinwrites.com

Image Gold as Power, East Berlin by Markus Bachmann

Ari Gold’s first feature film “Adventures of Power,” an epic comedy about the American dream and air-drumming, won best-of-festival prizes at 8 film festivals, and is currently in limited release in the U.S..  Ari was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 Faces to Watch” after having an unprecedented three short films in a row at Sundance.  He won a Student Academy Award for “Helicopter,” an autobiographical retelling of the aftermath of his mother’s death, which was called “the best short film of the year” by Film Threat, and won top prizes at short-film festivals in the US, France, Germany and Brazil. His previous short film “Culture” which he directed and starred in, was written up in the New York Times after its Sundance premiere, and became the inspiration for a filmmaking collective in the former Yugoslavia, which he later joined.

As an actor, Ari won “Stoner of the Year” from High Times Magazine for his performance in the Sony Classics release “Groove.”  He was raised in San Francisco, and has lived at various times in New York, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Montana, Germany and Serbia.  Ari sings in the bands The Honey Brothers (with Adrian Grenier) and Gold Brothers (with his twin brother Ethan) and plays ukulele, piano and sometimes drums.

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