Olav Amende, born 1983 in Berlin, is a writer, director and performance artist. He writes and stages plays and published texts in various literary magazines. His long poem "abwesenhen" was published in summer 2022by parasitenpresse. His long poem "Flurstück 3587/3588. Poem on a house" followed in the summer of 2024 with Hochroth. Most recently, the long poem "erosion" was published by parasitenpresse.

Mathias Traxler, born in 1973 in Basel. Studied law in Basel and Fribourg. Since 1999, he has lived as a writer and translator in Berlin. His literary work is at the interfaces between poetry and music, poetry performance and translation. Readings that incorporate text-generating, interpretive and improvisational elements are of particular importance in his work.

Last published: Komplimente machen, hochroth 2020; Álvaro Seiça: 365 vorhergesagte Gedichte | previsão para 365 poemas, translated by Mathias Traxler,  parasitenpresse 2021; Variationen Montale Reihe i-iv, parasitenpresse 2025

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Patrick Wilden, born in 1973 in Paderborn, lives as a writer and editor in Dresden. He has published several volumes of poetry, most recently Zehn Minuten oder länger (anderort Verlag für Lyrik, Leipzig 2025), Seltsamer Lärm (Scheuring 2024) and the poetry picture book Schleichwege (with Kathrin Brömse, Dresden/Marburg 2023). His texts have been translated into Arabic, English and Dutch. Since 2000, he has received various scholarships and awards.