Franziska Davies

Franziska Davies is assistant professor of Eastern and Central Eastern European History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her books include “Eastern Europe Open Wounds. Travels to Memorial Sites of the Second World War” (2022, co-authored with Katja Makhotina) and the edited volume “Ukraine in Europe. Dream and Trauma of a Nation” which was published in 2023.

Writer and soldier from Lviv. Junior sergeant in 125-th brigade, the author of poetry collection «We were here».

Tanja Maljartschuk is a Ukrainian-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German. She studied philology at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University and worked as a journalist in Kiev before emigrating to Vienna in 2011. She published her first novel, A Biography of a Chance Miracle, in 2013. In 2016 she was awarded the BBC Ukrainian’s Book of the Year Award for Oblivion. This novel, which appeared in German as Blauwal der Erinnerung (2019, The Blue Whale of Memories), was also awarded the Usedomer Literaturpreis in 2022. In 2018, she received the Ingeborg-Bachmann Prize for her story “Frösche im Meer.” Her most recent publication is a collection of essays entitled Gleich geht die Geschichte weiter, wir atmen nur aus, written between 2014 and 2022.

Borys Filonenko is a writer, curator, art critic, and editor-in-chief of ist publishing (Kharkiv—Kyїv). He was a co-curator of the Pavilion of Ukraine at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and at the 18th Biennale Architettura in Venice (2023), and the Second National Biennale of Young Art in Kharkiv (2019). From 2017 lecturing in the Kharkiv School of Architecture. Born in 1991, lives and works in Kyїv, Lviv and Kharkiv.

Yuliya Musakovska is the author of six poetry collections in Ukrainian, most recently Stones and Nails (2024). Her book The God of Freedom (2021) was shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature award and nominated for the Shevchenko National Prize. It was published in English translation by Arrowsmith Press in 2024. Collections of her poetry in translation were also released in Sweden and Poland. Yuliya’s work has been translated into 30 languages and is widely published internationally.

Poetess, cultural manager and public activist
She is the author of the poetry collection “The Effect of Intimacy” (2021) and the theatrical and poetry performance “Much War. Much Love” (2023). She is the PR Director of the Odesa International Film Festival and the Ukrainian Film Academy and Communication Manager of the Protasiv Yar Festival. Tetiana is the creative producer of the projects Tête-à-tête in the Bookstore and Our Poems and the coordinator of special projects of the Ukrainian Book Institute. In 2024, she is curating the Summer Book Season at VDNH Expo Centre in Kyiv

She was a journalist and a civil activist in her civil life. Now, she serves in the Azov patronage service, which cares for wounded soldiers and soldiers released from captivity and organizes burial of fallen warriors. Tonia’s works have been published in a series of collections about love and war of Knyholav publishing house and in “Words Unite Oceans”, a collection for the Ukrainian diaspora.

She is the founder of the “Volunteers of the Ukrainian Language” conversation club. She is also the social project coordinator of Eleos-Ukraine network under the Synodal Department of Social Service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Executive Director of Eleos Dnipro. She is one of the “minions” of the creative movement “We will not be Broken”. Natalka is the author of two poetry collections, “The Line of Light” (2021) and “When We Return Home” (2022). She is the director of the documentary “Crimea. Occupation. Ukraine”. Earlier, she worked as a live TV presenter and production editor at Vidkrytyi and Privat-TV Dnipro TV channels. The media outlet Detector Media awarded her for a photo from the frontline submitted to the all-Ukrainian competition of the Day newspaper.