Günther Orth graduated in Arabic Philology in Erlangen, Germany. Scholarships brought him to Egypt and Syria, followed by a degree in Arabic translation in Leipzig. In his master’s thesis and later in his dissertation, he wrote about modern prose literature in Syria and Yemen, where he lived. Today he works in Berlin and worldwide as…
Raoua Allaoui, born 1974 in Lebanon. In 1990 she began to learn German in Germany. After graduation in 1997, she studied at the Department of Translation and Interpretation of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 2004 she finished her studies with the translation diploma for French and English. As a freelance interpreter and translator for Arabic,…
Sandra Hetzl, born 1980, translates Arabic literature into German and lives in Berlin. She translated works by Rasha Abbas, Aref Hamza, Kadhem Khanjar, Bushra al-Maktari, Raif Badawi, Aboud Saeed and Assaf Alassaf and many more. Above that she is the brains behind »10/11«, a literary agency and laboratory for new forms of Arabic literature.
Christopher-Fares Köhler was born in Wiesbaden in 1987 and grew up in Germany and Jordan. He studied theater studies at the University of Leipzig and at the Free University of Berlin. From 2013–2015 he worked as an assistant director for Falk Richter, in plays such as »Small Town Boy« at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.…