Christian Lange Hausstein, author and lawyer, born in East Berlin in 1983, is pursuing a doctorate in legal theory at the Free University of Berlin. Christian's prose appears in magazines and anthologies, most recently in 2025 with the story Teilzeitmänner (Part-Time Men) published by Diogenes Tapir. Between fall 2025 and summer 2026, the literary magazine manuskripte will publish his three-part essay series on fundamental questions of AI use in literature: from the lack of copyright on machine-generated works to the remuneration of authors for AI training to generative storytelling as a new genre. As a lawyer, he was a member of an expert group of the EU Commission for Innovation and publishes on digitization issues (trade journals, Spiegel Online, brand eins, re:publica).

Daniel Klaus was born in Wiesbaden in 1972 and grew up in Niedernhausen am Taunus. After spending extended periods abroad in Paris and Istanbul, he now lives in Berlin. He writes light-hearted columns for the taz newspaper and publishes a wide variety of texts in literary magazines and anthologies. His literary works have received numerous awards, including the Walter Serner Prize, the Ruhr Area Literature Promotion Prize, and the Alfred Döblin Scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts. For his recently completed novel project “Licht und Verzweiflung” (Light and Despair), he received a research scholarship from the Berlin Senate Administration. Together with Klaus Esterluss, he founded the reading series “Für Immer Bärbel” (Forever Bärbel) in 2025.

More about the author under www.danielklaus.com

Klaus Esterluß was born in 1978 in the suburbs of East Berlin and grew up in one of these satellite towns on the outskirts of the city. He studied without a specific goal in mind and ended up in journalism at a very early age. First radio, then television, and later online and social media. Klaus has always talked a lot in front of cameras and written for at least as long. However, he mainly wrote for himself—poems, observations, fragments. Language, melody, and rhythm are important to him, sometimes more important than the actual story. Around 2012, Klaus met Daniel as a neighbor and rediscovered his courage to write. From then on, his literary works were regularly published in anthologies and magazines. Currently, Klaus mainly writes short texts alongside his work. He runs a channel on Instagram and TikTok where he presents political and pop culture non-fiction books and comics that he reads in order to constantly broaden his horizons.

Together with Daniel, Klaus founded the reading series Für Immer Bärbel (Forever Bärbel) in 2025.

Rick Palm (under 30) collects mini keyboards, raps about dreary bureaucracy, studies philosophy and sociolinguistics at the Free University of Berlin, and has no other interests of capitalist value. So it's no surprise that he earns his living as a freelance illustrator and lecturer and has a penchant for co-organizing and moderating literary events (independent scene!). Of course, he co-hosts a podcast, which is currently on hold. He writes poetry and short prose. Rick has so far successfully protected himself from awards and publishing by not putting in the effort.
Rick knows all about dreams because he has them. He loves the sound they make when they burst.