Scientist Christopher Coenen is a political scientist who has been a research associate at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), since 2003. There he is head of the research group ‘Health and Technization of Life’. Topics at ITAS have so far included information and …
SmallTolk
🇩🇪 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 …
Toxic Love
🇩🇪 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 …
Dilman Dila
🇺🇬 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 …
Erik Simon
🇩🇪 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 …
Hannes Riffel
🇩🇪 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, …