Jenny Erpenbeck was born in the former GDR to a family of storytellers and tried to do something different, studying drama and working as stage director.

Zafer Senocak is one of the leading voices in the debates of multiculturalism, national and cultural identity in Europe.

The work of German artist Christoph Schlingensief spanned a diverse range of fields, including film, theatre, activism, television and opera.

No other German artist and theater director has been as active as Christoph Schlingensief in earning the term "political" for his work.

The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist has started in Sydney with a University of Sydney Symposium on the work and actuality of Heinrich von Kleist

The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist has started in Sydney with a University of Sydney Symposium on the work and actuality of Heinrich von Kleist

Ilija Trojanow was a guest of the Adelaide Writers´ Week and subsequently gave a reading at the Goethe-Institut in Sydney.

Marion Döring is the Director of the European Film Academy, which is based in Berlin, and presents the annual European Film Awards every second year in one of the other European capitals.

German bestseller author Andrea Maria Schenkel reads from her unusual crime story "The Murder Farm". Listen as she talks about her insights and inspirations.

Stefan Klein was guest at the Perth Writers Festival 2008. He talked to author Stephanie Dowrick.

Stefan Aust, a renowned German author and journalist talks to Trudi Latour from SBS German Radio about his work on “The Baader Meinhof Complex”.

Writer Galsan Tschinag was guest of the 2007 German Arts Festival “GermMANY FACES Australia”. He talked to Florian Messner, producer and presenter of the Kulturchronik segment of SBS.

Ilija Trojanow is an international bestselling author and has visited Australia as a guest of the Goethe-Institut and the Adelaide Writers Week 2010.

Erica Fischer, guest of this year’s Audi Festival of German Films, talks about her book Aimée and Jaguar.

Renowned German writer Antje Rávic Strubel in a session entitled "And the wall came tumbling down", at the Melbourne Writers Festival, 2009.

Award-winning author Saša Stanišic about his first novel “How The Soldier Repaires The Gramophone”.

Saša Stanišic, in discussion with Jeremy Fisher and reading from his novel “How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone”

Listen to the SBS-interview with Andrea Maria Schenkel who won several literature awards for both her first novel "The Murder Farm" (Tannöd) as well as her second novel "Ice Cold" ("Kalteis").

Listen to Australian Writer Vanessa Berry, just returned from her residence in Leipzig and Berlin. Posted to Germany through the Goethe-Institut she had the chance to discover different German stories and situations – view through the eyes of a young Australian writer.

Writer Wibke Bruhns, guest of the 2008 Sydney Writers's Festival, is reading from her book "My Father's Country".

Prolific writer Uwe Timm has been in Sydney for readings and discussions. He talks to Florian Messner from SBS Radio.

Writer Zoran Drevenkar was guest of the 2007 German Arts Festival “GermMANY FACES Australia”. He talked to Florian Messner, producer and presenter of the Kulturchronik segment of SBS.