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Stela Knezevic
Workshopleitung The Poetry Project

Stela Knezevic, born in 1994, is a Yugoslavian storyteller and worker. She has been telling stories and working in Berlin since 2018. Furthermore she is a former editor and now leads FLINTA* storytelling circles, is an organizational force at the poetry event AKIMBO, and is a co-founder of the poetry publishing house SELDOM Press.

Uliana Wieseler
Übersetzung

Uliana was born in August 1984 in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, where she completed her degree with a focus on English language. She then earned a Master's degree in German Studies and Linguistics at the Mykolayiv State University of Humanities, while also studying architecture. She continued her education at the Warsaw School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, obtaining a Master's degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management, as well as Tourism and Recreation.

From February 2017 to November 2019, she worked in Berlin on establishing a fashion label for bags and accessories. Afterwards, she was employed at Zalando and Louis Vuitton Germany in Berlin. Uliana speaks fluent German, English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish. She volunteers to support Ukrainian refugees and women in need. Currently, she resides in Berlin and is the managing director of cleaning companies in Warsaw and Berlin.

Anna Melikova
Workshopleitung PEN Berlin

Anna Melikova, born in 1984 in Ukraine and raised in Crimea, is a writer, screenwriter, film critic, and film curator. After studying German studies in Kyiv, she worked as a film curator and critic in Moscow. Since 2017, she has lived in Berlin. She wrote the screenplay for the film "Grand Jeté" and for the German-Ukrainian film project "The Female Body of My Beloved". Since 2022, she has been part of the selection committee for Berlinale Panorama.

Her debut novel "I Am Drowning in a Fleeing Lake" will be published by Matthes & Seitz in 2024. With her next novel "Songs from the Realm of the Dead," she has become a recipient of a scholarship from the Berlin Senate.