GAMES

How to play the "Three-games-game" (BM2)
Xavier Le Roy, molecular biologist, choreographer, dancer [Berlin, Montpellier]

Excitement and relaxation. How to get the most out of horror films. (BM2)
Susanne Sachse, actress, member of CHEAP [Berlin]

GANGSTER

Jack "Legs" Diamond. Setting a Gangster to Music. A Sound Poem (2000) (BM6)
Kevin Beavers, PhD, American composer, taught composition and theory at the University of Texas/Austin and the Interlochen Arts Camp [Columbia, Berlin]

The History of Gangsters in New York (BM6)
Howard Katz, choreographer, musician [New York, Berlin]

GARBOLOGY

The afterlives of everyday things: The archaeology and anthropology of the contemporary material world (BM 11)
Dan Hicks, Lecturer and Museum Curator, Oxford University [Oxford]

Garbage and recycle. The garbage collection system and recycling facilities in Moriya, Japan (BM 11)
Joshua Sofaer, Artist, he acts as curator, producer or director of a broad range of projects, including large-scale events, intimate performances, and publications, Artist in residence at ARCUS, Ibaraki, Japan [London]

1. How 26,640 Cigarette Packs Explain the World
2. Waste Scavenging as a Method of Biography and Everyday Culture Research (with photographs and practical examples) (BM8)
Mag. Joachim Hainzl, social pedagogue, social historian and collector, researches a.o. on issues related to begging and the marginalization of social groups [Graz]

About Forgotten, Lost and Reevaluated Things (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Christine und Mag. Irene Hohenbüchler, artists, numerous exhibitions, a.o. documentaX and the Venice Biennale in 1999. Christine is Professor for Graphic Design and Visual Languages at the Vienna University of Technology [Eichgraben]

GARDEN FESTIVAL SITE

The demolition and privatisation of public urban green open spaces in Liverpool. From the Garden Festival Site Promenade to Stanley Park, etc (BM 11)
John Davies, narrative landscape photographer, short-listed for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2008. Curated "Cities on the Edge" photography book and exhibition in November 2008 Liverpool [Liverpool]

Wasted culture/cultured waste: Recycle for yourself or for the community? What would you do with the Garden Festival Site? (BM 11)
Sofie Nielsen and Tom Sumner, Product and Interior Designer [Liverpool]

GAY-LESBIAN

Ghetto-Books. Lesbian-Gay Literature in the U.S.A. and in Germany after Stonewall (BM6)
Jim Baker, Founder and Director of Querverlag [Philadelphia/ Berlin]

Lesbian Subculture in den U.S.A. of the 1950s/1960s: Ann Bannon's Pulp Novels (BM6)
Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Anglist/Americanist and Theatre Scientist and
Beatrice Michaelis, Anglist/Amerikanist and Germanist, both Beneficiaries of a Scholarship at the Graduate School "Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie"(Gender as a Category of Knowledge), HU Berlin [Berlin]

Gay, Lesbian, Transgender: Perspectives of Queer Studies in the U.S.A. in Comparison to Germany (BM6)
Peter Rehberg, Editor-in-Chief at "Männer Aktuell", Author and Journalist, Former Lecturer on Queer Studies in the U.S.A. [New York/ Berlin]

Marc "Jewish" Siegel, or Why I Chose a Boy in Wisconsin Over a Kibbutz in Israel (BM6)
Marc Siegel, part-time Lecturer at the Seminar for Film Studies, FU Berlin, field of research: Experimental Film and Queer Studies, Member of the Berlin-based performance group CHEAP [New York/ Berlin]

GHETTO

Self-Ghetthoization in Times of Mobility - the New Cult of Retreat-Madness and Terror of Identitiy Revisited (BM7)
Imran Ayata, consultant for communications (A & B ONE) and author ("Hürriyet Love Express") [Ulm, Dersim, Frankfurt/ Main, Berlin]

From the "Ghetto" to a "Parallel Society": Neukölln, Knallhart, Buschkowsky (BM7)
Stephan Lanz, writer, editor of the book series metroZones, does research and lectures at the Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/ O. [Kaufbeuren, Regensburg, Tübingen, Rio de Janeiro, Oldenburg, Frankfurt/ O., Berlin]

GHOST LIBRARY

Mirrors, Mazes, Madnesses: A Retelling of Paul Auster's "City of Glass" (1985) (BM 11)
David Hering , currently writing his PhD thesis in Postmodern American Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is a specialist on David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster [Liverpool]

A retelling of Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" (1974) (BM 11)
Lindsay Sekulowicz, artist, working in collaboration with museums including "Museo La Specola", The Museum of Natural History in Florence, Italy [London]

Destruction and return: A retelling of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922) (BM 11)
David Hering, currently writing his PhD thesis in Postmodern American Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is a specialist on David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster [Liverpool]

A retelling of Georges Perec's "Life: A Users Manuel" (1978) (BM 11)
Lindsay Sekulowicz, artist, working in collaboration with museums including "Museo La Specola", The Museum of Natural History in Florence, Italy [Liverpool]

W.A.S.T.E. (WE AWAIT SILENT TRISTERO'S EMPIRE) A retelling of Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966) (BM 11)
Ian Copestake, earned his PhD from Leeds University in 2000 and went on to serve as a Research Fellow at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He is a specialist in 20th Century American Poetry [Liverpool]

1. Retelling the Book "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino (1972)
2. Retelling the Book "The Nonexistent Knight" by Italo Calvino (1959) (BM3)
Tomasz Brzozowski, publisher of "Swiat Literacki", bookseller and owner of Czuly Barbarzynca [Warsaw]

Retelling the Film "Irreversible" by Gaspar Noé (2002) (BM3)
Magdalena Cielecka, actress [Warsaw]

Retelling the Book "Demon Ruchu" ("Demon of Movement") by Stefan Grabinski (1922) (BM3)
Pawel Dunin-Wasowicz, editor in chief of "Lampa" magazine [Warsaw]

Retelling the Book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl (1946) (BM3)
Beata Gawarecka, Finance & Administration Manager at Kornferry Warsaw, psychologist and neighbour [Warsaw]

Retelling of the Film "Dracula" by Tod Browning (1931) (BM3)
Grzegorz Jarzyna, artistic director of TR Warszawa [Warsaw]

Retelling the Book "Death and Dying. Tibetan tradition" edited by Jacek Sieradzan (1994) (BM3)
Katarzyna Jaskiewicz, intuitive art performer and actress [Warsaw]

Retelling the Book "Tristes Tropiques" by Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955) (BM3)
Dr. Justyna Jaworska, culture anthropologist [Warsaw]

1. Retelling the Book "Intercom" by Zygmunt Miloszewski (2005)
2. Retelling the Book "Phantoms in the City Breslau" by Marek Krajewski (2005) (BM3)
Dr. Jaroslaw Klejnocki, writer and philologist [Warsaw]

Retelling of the Book "Piotru's" by Leo Lipski (1960) (BM3)
Dr. Marek Kochan, writer [Warsaw]

Retelling the Best Unknown Novel on Poland: "Don't Believe Anyone" by Andrzej Czycz (1987) (BM3)
Magda Mosiewicz, co-chairperson of the Polish Green Party "Zieloni 2004" [Warsaw]

Retelling the Film "Matrix" by Andy and Larry Wachowski (2002) (BM3)
Jacek Poniedzialek, actor [Warsaw]

Retelling the Film "The Fearless Vampire Killers" by Roman Polanski (1967) (BM3)
Stefanie Peter, ethnologist, journalist, and artistic director of Büro Kopernikus [Berlin]

Retelling the Book "Auto da Fé" by Elias Canetti (1935) (BM3)
Beata Stasinska, chief editor of W.A.B Publishing House [Warsaw]

GHOSTS

Limited Inc.: Life with Limited Liability. What it Means to Assume Responsibility Towards our Ancestors (Derrida, Spectres) (BM10)
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Arno Böhler, philosopher, lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna, filmmaker (GRENZ-film) [Vienna]

The Spectre of Murder in Jean Genet's "The Maids" - A Report from Theater Work (premiere: June 4, 2008) (BM10)
Luc Bondy, director, managing director of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) [Vienna, Paris]

Why I Really Don't Exist: On the Illusion of Two Sexes (BM10)
James Dean, visual artist and media educator [Vienna]

The "Empty Chair of Power" - The Question of What Holds Society Together (BM10)
Dr. Peter Zeillinger, catholic theologian and philosopher, co-founder of the "Interdisciplinary Forum. UND." (with Matthias Flatscher and Sophie Loidolt), research activity on political theology, political philosophy and so-called "post-modernism" [Vienna]

____conspirative
Un-American Conspiracy Theories (BM6)
Christoph Keller, Artist [Berlin]

____friendly
On Being Haunted and Happy in American Cinema: An Explanation for the Friendliness of American Ghosts (BM6)
Dr. Sladja Blazan, Author and Assistant Professor for American Culture and Literature, HU Berlin [Los Angeles, Berlin]

____medial
Media and Other Ghosts: The Birth of American Spirituality out of the Spirit of the Telegraph (BM6)
Philipp Albers, Programme Director at the American Academy in Berlin and Co-Founder of the Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur [Berlin]

____structural
Whiteness - On the Invisibility of Structural Racism (BM6)
Dr. Gabriele Dietze, Guest Professor at the Institute for Cultural Science, HU Berlin, former Lecturer for Rotbuch Verlag [Berlin]

____unfriendly
Why Caspar Isn't Really a Friendly Ghost - American Gothic (BM6)
Dr. Mary Ann Snyder-Körber, Assistant Professor at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]

GIFT / PRESENT

To Write Something - Forget it - Find it Again, by Chance / To Give a Present to Oneself (BM8)
Werner Korn, co-director of echoraum - Raum für Theater, Musik und andere Künste, mail project "Tagebuch" together with 14 co-writers since 1997 [Vienna]

Television: Our Common Table for Presents (BM8)
Dr. Marc Ries, culture and media theorist, projects and publications at the interface of the media/ culture/ architecture and art, teaches at the HGB Leipzig [Vienna]

How Power Relationships Find their Expression in Gifts (BM8)
Dr. Adelheid Schrutka-Rechtenstamm, Adj. Professor, cultural anthropologist, visiting lecturer at the Department for Folklore and Cultural Anthropology Graz, research areas: giving, traveling, rituals [Vöcklabruck]

Souvenirs from Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Vidin, Russe and Sulina. The Danube Streaming Show (2003), a Project with Veronika Dreier and Doris Jauk-Hinz (BM8)
Eva Ursprung, artist, musician (zlan, squant, hurennoise), installations, interactions, interventions in the public, social and electronic space, networks and collective processes [Graz]

GIFT / TALENT

About Memorizing Numbers, Cards, Names and Faces. With Practical Examples (BM8)
Corinna Draschl, mnemonic prodigy, Junior World Champion in memory training (2006), invited to the Oprah Winfrey show "Smartest Kids of the World" (2007) [St. Peter am Kammersberg]

The Realization of Creative Potential (BM8)
Dr. Andreas Fink, researcher at the Department of Psychology of the University of Graz, research and teaching on the neuroscientific fundamentals of personality and creativity [Graz]

GIFTed: Genes, Education or Fate? (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Aljoscha C. Neubauer, head of Department and lecturer for personality psychology at the Department for Psychology of the University of Graz, scientific director of "Top-Talente-Check", William Stern Award 1997 of the German Society for Psychology, author (Lernen macht intelligent) [Graz]

There are Talents everywhere. You only have to find them and foster them! (BM8)
Mag. Dr. Helene Rucker, coordinator of the regional government of Styria for the assistance of gifted pupils in Styria, Landesschulrat (Styrian education authority) and Pedagogical Institute Styria, Graz, lecturer for the subject area of talents at the Department for Psychology of the University of Graz [Graz]

Gift, Origin and Social Stability (BM8)
Dr. Josef Zollneritsch, clinical psychologist and health psychologist, speaker for school psychology and educational counseling of the local government of Styria and since 1994 head of the department of the same name at the Landesschulrat für Steiermark (i.e. the Styrian education authority) [Graz]