🇩🇪 Podcast Three middle-aged gentlemen talk about Tolkien. Their conversations are sometimes profound, sometimes silly. New episodes are recorded on Sundays at 8 pm in the Tolkien Discord. You can be there live and also participate as a listener. And what will they talk about at MetropolCon? Well, hair fashion in Middle Earth is a …

🇩🇪 Podcast Toxic Love: Pop culture on the psychologist’s couch. A podcast about the intersections of pop culture and toxic relationships. Pop culture has an impact. It’s no longer “just” the “soundtrack of our lives,” as radio host and DJ Dick Clarke once claimed many decades ago. Pop culture is all around us in our …

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🇺🇬 Author and filmmaker UPDATE 5/4/2023: Unfortunately Dilman Dila was unable to obtain a visa for his trip to Germany. However, he will send us video statements so that his voice and contributions can still be heard. Dilman Dila is a writer, filmmaker, and all-around artist who lives in his home country, Uganda. He is …

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🇩🇪 Author, editor, translator Erik Simon, born in 1950, physicist, contributed significantly to the publication of foreign science fiction in the GDR as an editor and publisher; he himself translated books by A. and B. Strugatzki, Andrzej Sapkowski, Vernor Vinge, and the popular science part of Terry Pratchett’s “Science of Discworld”. His debut volume as …

🇩🇪 Translator, Editor, Publisher Photo © John Clute Hannes Riffel is a translator, editor, and publisher. He co-founded the Berlin bookstore Otherland and founded Golkonda Verlag in 2010, where he was director until 2017. From 2015 to 2021, he headed the science fiction/fantasy program area at S. Fischer (FISCHER Tor). For translations of John Clute, …

🇩🇪 publisher, editor Hardy Kettlitz was a co-founder and contributor to the SF magazine ALIEN CONTACT, for which he was editor-in-chief for 15 years. Since 1994 he has edited the SF PERSONALITY book series (28 volumes to date). He worked intensively for a decade at Golkonda Publishing, where he edited the MEMORANDA book series since …