LABOUR MIGRATION

Original Migration. On the Myths of Labor Recruitment (BM7)
Manuela Bojadžijev, member of Ultra-red and Kanak Attac, does research on migration, racism and political theory [Frankfurt/ Main, Berlin, London]

On Korean Labour Migration in the FRG (BM7)
Sun-ju Choi, filmmaker, freelance journalist and script editor at WDR [Mok-po, Kwang-Ju, Washington, Köln, La Réunion, Berlin]

1958 - 1962: Zagreb - Triest - Villafranca di Verona - Martigues - Korsika - Paris - Bremen. Dragos Experiences With Various Hosts. Illustrated with photographs (BM7)
Nicol Ljubic, writer ("Heimatroman oder Wie mein Vater Deutscher wurde"), journalist [Zagreb, Uppsala, Thessaloniki, Moscow, Bremen, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin]

LANDFILL

How to deal with the contaminated hole in the ground (BM 11)
Berni Turner, executive Member for Environment, she is also Liverpool City Councils' Historic Environment Champion [Liverpool]

LANDSCAPE

Dr. Winfried Fluck, Professor for American Culture at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]
America as a Burning Sky - The Landscape Painter Frederic Church (BM6)

Science in the American West: How Field Researchers Learned About the Environment (BM6)
Jeremy Vetter, Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science [Nebraska]

LANGUAGE

Speech producers: Games as catalysts for creativity and communication (Licence No.1)
Otmar Bettscheider and Karin Herrmann certified linguists, game authors and -publishers, owners of game publisher "BiWo Spiele" [Mannheim]

Behind the Sounds - How unvoiced Words influence Sentence Structure and Meaning (BM12)
Irena Botwinik, teaches linguistics at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her fields of research are syntax, syntax acquisition and language processing. She also studied astrology. [Tel Aviv]

Der Herzkammerjäger heiratet die unkaputtbare Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwe - Puns, game rules, breaches of rules (Licence No.1)
Dr. Elke Donalies linguist for the German Language Institute [Mannheim]

Breaches of rules as an aesthetic principle (Licence No.1)
Dr. Frank Druffner art historian, consultant to the Director of the German Literary Archives in Marbach [Marbach/Neckar]

1) De Kedelkoppersprook, a secret language in the port of Hamburg. Useful for relationships and intimacies.
2) Love letters in Low German (BM2)
Inge Foerster-Baldenius, journalist, speaker of the SPD party in the GDR parliament, examiner in the centre for documentation of the victims of German dictatorships [Hamburg]

How earnest is Irony? A Look into the Cognitive Processes of Understanding (BM12)
Rachel Giora, Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. Among her research interests are language and ideology, women and language, the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of figurative language (irony, jokes, and metaphor), and discourse negation. Her book On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language was published by Oxford University Press in 2003. She supports the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. [Tel Aviv]

1) Haussa: an African language
2) Dendi: an African language (BM2)
Abdel Amine Mohammend, student, Initiative for Refugees Brandenburg [Berlin]

About the Mutual Gains and the Merging of Slang, Jargon, Dialect, Text Messaging and Standard Language (which thus does not exist) (BM8)
El Awadalla, chief employee representative and payroll accountant at the Literaturhaus Vienna, comedian, writer; won a million euros in the "Millionenshow", the Austrian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", chairperson of the Ö.D.A., an association of Austrian dialect authors [Vienna]

From the Written to the Printed to the Read (BM8)
Dr. Rainer Götz, copy editor at the literary publishing house Droschl and co-editor of the literary magazine manuskripte [Graz]

On the work behind the punch line in cabaret and comedy (Licence No.1)
Dr. Christian "Chako" Habekost entertainer (comedian, cabaret artist, musician-performer, oral artist), author, linguist [Mannheim]

The wonderful world of puns (Licence No.1)
Einhart Klucke taxi driver, teacher, trade union secretary, cabaret artist, master of ceremonies, off-theatre expert [Mannheim]

On the Asymmetrical Relationship of Humor. With Joke Examples (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leopold Neuhold, Professor at the Department for Ethics and Christian Social Ethics of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Graz, research fields: football and ethics et al. [Graz]

How Words Wander: Translation and Language Change (according to Fritz Mauthner's Wörterbuch der Philosophie) (BM8)
Mag. Camilla Nielsen, studies of translation sciences, contemporary history and philosophy in Vienna, freelance translator (English, Spanish, French, Modern Greek) since 1985, since 1991 lectureships at various universities (University of Vienna, University of Lüneburg, University of Applied Arts Vienna) [Vienna]

"They couldn’t hide the words within the strokes..." They were just recounting.(Licence No.1)
Dirk Nowakowski professional teller of stories, fairytales and legends, stage designer, museum pedagogue, social worker [Mannheim]

Language radicalism and sport (Licence No.1)
Ulrich Verthein Head of the sport section at Mannheimer Morgen newspaper [Mannheim]

Things to Know About Vladimir Nabokov's Novel The Gift (BM8)
Dr. Rainer Vesely, doctorate in German Language and Literature Studies, currently campus library of the PÄDAK/PH Vienna [Vienna]

LAW

The New Right of Residence that Isn't One (BM7)
Franziska Nedelmann, lawyer with a focus on the "Ausländergesetz", represents the victims of racist violence in the eastern federal states of Germany [Berlin]

The Function of the Judge in the Civil Process (BM10)
Dr. Therese Hurch, judge, court council at the Highest Court [Vienna]

Exclusively in Austria: Debt Principle in Divorce. Superfluous Relict? (BM10)
Dr. Helene Klaar, lawyer [Vienna]

Legal Phenomenology: Man as a Legal Being (BM10)
Dr. Sophie Loidolt, philosopher with subspecialty legal phenomenology and phenomenology. co-founder of the "Interdisciplinary Forum .UND" (with Matthias Flatscher and Peter Zeillinger); teaches at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna [Vienna]

Production and Construction of Truth in the Courtroom (BM10)
Dr. Siegfried Mattl, historian, exhibition curator, head of the Viennese Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (History Cluster), teaches at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna [Vienna]

1. The Legal Notion of Guilt
2. Jury Procedure - On the Issue of Guilt in Criminal Law (BM10)
Natascha Michel, senior public prosecutor, senior public prosecutor's office Vienna, responsible for the Austrian counties Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland [Vienna]

How Much Knowledge about Themselves and Knowledge of the World do Judges Need? (BM10)
Dr. Claudia Prónay, judge, head of the District Court at Neusiedl am See [Vienna]

LEADERSHIP

The prophet’s games and the humour of the Imam (Licence No.1)
Bekir Alboga preacher, Imam, Islamic scholar, authorised representative for intercultural dialogues, member of the German Islamic Conference, participant of the Integrationsgipfel (integration summit) [Cologne, Mannheim]

Power: A strategic tool, a necessary tactical instrument, a burden (Licence No.1)
Christian W. Hübel director of strategic supervision of the city of Mannheim, Ex-CEO of the SPD Rhein-Neckar, certified historian and political scientist [Mannheim]

On the art of getting 40 individuals to interplay (Licence No.1)
Alexander Kalajdzic First conductor at the National Theatre in Mannheim, professor at the Music Academy in Zagreb, regular guest conductor for the Cape Town Philharmonic orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonics, as well as the Croatian National Opera [Mannheim, Zagreb]

LITERATURE

"America (at) Your Library". Your Library (in) America (BM6)
Irini Courzakis, Librarian at the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin/ Amerika- Gedenkbibliothek [Berlin]

1. The Weight of American History in Contemporary Playwriting: Charles Mee, Susan Murry Parks, Anna Deveare Smith and Naomi Wallace Take on the American Legacy
2. Writing No Man's Land- Writing my (American) Play (BM6)
Talaya Delaney, Playwright, Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University in History of American Civilization, currently Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow [New York, Berlin]

Middlesex Revisited. Detroit's History Explained with the Venues in Jeffrey Eugenides' Novel (BM6)
Anke Hagemann, Scientific Assistant to the Project "Shrinking Cities", Co-Editor of "AnArchitektur"-magazine [Berlin]

The Trap of Communism - How America's Mentality is Mirrored in Its Literature: Lorrie Moore and Tristan Egolf (BM6)
Dr. Frank Heibert, Literary Translator (DeLillo, LaBute), Editor, Jazz-Singer [Berlin]

1. Two Versions of Literary Post-Modernism in the U.S.A.: Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo
2. Herman Melville and the Literature of American Romanticism (BM6)
Dr. Heinz Ickstadt, Professor (em.) and Former Director of the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North-American Studies, FU Berlin, Pynchon-Specialist [Berlin]

Living Through the Lexicon: Discontent? Even with Culture? Try a Quasi-Clinical Consultation, Using American Know-How and German Know-Why (BM6)
Warren Niesluchowski, Social Philologist (A. B. B. Cantab.) and Geistarbeiter, ex-Bread and Puppet Theatre, P. S. 1 [New York]

An Information Desk on Thomas Pynchon (BM6)
Dr. Bernhard Siegert, Gerd-Bucerius-Stiftungs-Professor for History and Theory of Cultural Techniques, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar [Weimar]

Kafka's America (BM6)
Dr. Joseph Vogl, Professor for Modern German Literature at the Institute for German Literature, HU Berlin [Berlin]

ŁOMIANKI (North-Warsaw)

- privat house, Łomianki-Dabrowa
My Home - My Observatory. On Art and Human Archives (BM5/city version)
Zofia Kulik, artist, working with photography, collages, installations, in 1971-1987 together with Przemyslaw Kwiek as KwieKulik (KK) run the Studio for Art Activities, Documentation and Propagation, represented Poland at the 1997 Venice Biennial [Warsaw]

LOVE

Technologies of Desire. How to Find the Man/Woman of One's Life with Tightening and Distinction (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fröhlich, philosopher, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science Theory at the Johannes-Kepler- University Linz [Linz]

Life as Gift and Surrender. A Change of Paradigms for an Up-to-date Spirituality (BM8)
MMag. Hermann Glettler, father of the multi-cultural parish St Andrä, opening of the parish premises for African immigrants, hospitality vis-à-vis contemporary art in the church space, work for the Caritas, projects for a timely Christian annunciation with the help of the Emmanuel Community [Graz]

Sketching Love (BM8)
Rudi Klein, creator of text and image combinations for Der Standard, Profil, Falter, fm4 [Vienna]

In the Flow of Giving: Wisdom and Love (BM8)
Wolfgang Poier, buddhist (Buddhist Center Graz of Karma Kagyü Austria), secondary school teacher, visiting lecturer at the University of Graz and the University of Applied Sciences Campus02 [Graz]

Gift Careers in Love relationships/ or Gifts as Gender-specific Signs in a Relationship (BM8)
Dr. Adelheid Schrutka-Rechtenstamm, Adj. Professor, cultural anthropologist, visiting lecturer at the Department for Folklore and Cultural Anthropology Graz, research areas: giving, traveling, rituals [Vöcklabruck]