Greta Gallandy I grew up in the big city, Hamburg, but as a child, I always longed to live in the country. In the county the air is fresher unless of course the fields have just been fertilized. In the country it's quiet, except for when the cock crows or the cow says moo. In the country it's nice, unless it's November and it's raining. That is why I've been living in Denmark for so long, because it's fresh and the nature is lovely. I teach German, art and biology to children and teenagers. I'm happy with being a teacher, especially because I can paint on the blackboard!

Patricia Mennen I was born in Augsburg, but grew up in the little medieval town Riedlingen an der Donau. As soon as I was able to write, I ran around with a notebook and a pen, just to write down everything I felt was important to me. These books were a mixture of diaries, idea books and facts. Like life itself, they were colorful kaleidoscopes. After high school I studied art history and theater studies in Munich and Würzberg.

VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885) Né à Besançon en 1802, Victor Hugo écrit, dès l'âge de seize ans, des texts qui le rendent vite célèbre. Il deviant un peu plus tard le chef de la nouvelle vaque des écrivains français, dits les "Romantiques". En 1830, sa pièce de théâtre Hernani fait beaucoup d'effet dans les milieu littéraires. En 1831, il écrit l'extraordinaire Notre-Dame de Paris, qui est considéré comme le premier vrai roman romantique français.

Christoph Wortberg was born in Köln in 1963. He studied German, literature, philosophy and history. After finishing his acting-education, he appeared in both theater and television productions. Today he is a freelance writer. He writes scripts for television and novels for teenagers and adults. His website is: www.christophwortberg.de

Knallhart, ER C Michael Polischka and his mother have to move to the problem area of Neukölln. Here life is very different from where they lived earlier with the mother's boyfriend. Michael must force himself to be hard and tough to survive there. Filmed.

Siegfried Lenz (born 17 March 1926) is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.