Laura Naumann (1989, Leipzig, Germany): she studied creative writing and cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim. In 2006 and 2008 she was awarded at the Treffen junger Autoren of the Berliner Festspiele. Laura Naumann received the Münchner Förderpreis für neue deutschsprachige Dramatik in 2009 and was selected for the Autorentheatertage of the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Theresia Walser (1967, Friedrichshafen, Germany): she is an actress and playwright, she was awared with many different prizes. In 1998 she was elected best young playwright in the critics’ poll of Theater heute magazine’ and she was best German-speaking playwright in 1999. Also in 1998 she was awarded with the Schiller-Gedächtnispreis of the Land Baden-Württemberg. In 2006 she was a fellow of the BHF-Bank Foundation.

Thomas Köck (1986, Wolfern, Austria): he is theatre author and director included in the European project Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe. His works have been performed in Vienna, Berlin, Mannheim and Hamburg, among others. He is the winner of numerous awards including Else Lasker-Schüler Preis, Dramatikpreis der österreichischen Theaterallianz, Thomas Bernhard Scholarship and Kleist Förderpreis.

Robert Woelfl (1965, Villach, Austria): he is an author included in the European project Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe. He was awarded with several prizes including Reinhold-Lenz-Preis für neue Dramatik, Autorenpreis der deutschsprachigen Theaterverlage and Dramatikerpreis des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt.

Sabine Heymann. She is a cultural journalist, theater critic, translator and university professor. From 2001 to 2017 she was the managing director of the Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität (ZMI) of the Justus-Liebig University of Gießen / Germany. After studying German and Roman Studies at the University of Gießen, she worked for 15 years as a cultural journalist and correspondent from Rome, among other things for the publications Theater heute, Frankfurter Rundschau and for the broadcasters Hessischer Rundfunk, WDR and Deutschlandfunk. In the nineties she was a member of the jury of the Ubu Award (Patalogo / Franco Quadri). Sabine Heymann translates dramas, fiction and non-fiction mainly from Italian, but also from French, Spanish and English. In thirty years she has translated almost a hundred Italian theatrical texts, including those by Stefano Massini, Emma Dante, Fausto Paravidino, Edoardo Erba, Fabrizio Sinisi, Enzo Moscato, Davide Carnevali, Emanuele Aldrovandi, Lina Prosa, Sarasole Notarbartolo. As a “connoisseur” of theater in Italy and China, she has collaborated in a great number of international festivals, research projects and conferences, at the Stückemarkt in Berlin and at the Biennale in Bonn and Wiesbaden. As a consultant, scout and editorial reader she works for several German publishing houses specializing in the theater. She is the author of scientific articles on Italian theater and co-editor of the volume Zeitgenössisches Theater in China (Alexander Verlag / Berlin 2017). She has lectured at various universities in Germany, Europe, the United States and China. She recently obtained the assignment from the Goethe-Institut of Naples to work in the research and selection of dramas for the international contemporary drama section of the theater festival Racconti per Ricominciare 2022.

The translation of Thomas Köck, Laura Naumann, Theresia Walser and Robert Woelfl was edited by Bice Rinaldi. Experienced interpreter, Bice Rinaldi pays the greatest attention to the process of meaning transfer between languages. Bice Rinaldi works in the field of German-language literature and was awarded the Italian-German Prize for Literary Translation in 2010, finalist in the “Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi” in 2018 together with the author Jutta Richter. She has worked with the publishers Beisler, Fazi and Neri Pozza and boasts a long-standing collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.