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publisher's company (Stattbuch Verlag). After a longer lasting sabbatical on the island of La Palma he became a certified Gestalt-therapist. Since 1992 he is a free-lance author and coach in Berlin. His publications as co-author include the authobiographies of Jürgen Schneider, Hans-Joachim Selenz and Jürgen Harksen. TALIVALDiS MARGEVICS was born in Lübeck, in 1946. He studied history in Riga and journalism in Leningrad. Since then he worked mainly as a film maker with more than 40 films up to this date. Occasionally he worked as a packer in a textile factory, as a teacher, a university tutor and as counselor to the Latvian president. JOCHEN NOTH was born in Berlin, in 1941, Romance studies, German studies and theatre studies in Mainz, Paris and Heidelberg. Since 1963 member of the socialist student organisation SDS, temporarily as a member of the federal board. Founding member of the central committee of the communist foundation of Western Germany KBW. From 1979 to 1988 he worked as a subeditor for Radio Beijing in China, and as a tutor at a language school. Since 1989 he has been working as a consultant and coach focusing on China and as managing director of the Asian-Pacific Institute for Management in Berlin. Selected publications, i. e. 1986 CHINAS WEG IN DIE MODERNE -ANDERS ALS MOSKAU, with Helmut Forster-Latsch; peking 1979-1992, HÂUFIGER SZENENWECHSEL, with W. Pohlmann and H. van Dijk. CHRISTIAN SPREMBERG was born in Hamburg, in 1965, and attended blind school in Hamburg, Friedberg and Marburg. After his secondary-school exams he started to study German studies and theatre studies in Marburg but abandoned it in 1991/92. After that he worked as a telephone operator for the unemployment agency in Marburg, from 1995 to 2002 he worked for Spreeradio, Berlin, starting as an apprentice and later as subeditor. Since 2003 he works for a call centre agency in Berlin. RALPH WARNHOLZ was born in Düsseldorf, in 1960. After an apprenticeship as an electrician he went to night school for further education in electronics. Since 1974 he worked as an electrician in public service in Düsseldorf. He did severe gambling for twelve years. Since eight years he is hosting a support group for gamblers at the Diakonie, a welfare and social work organisation in Düsseldorf. FRANZISKA ZWERG was born in Berlin in 1969. She graduated from studying German studies, Slavonic studies and theatre studies in Berlin and Moscow. Ever since she has been working as a freelance translator for Russian (i. e. a biography of Jelzin, komm by Irina Denezkina, DIE MUTANTEN DES KREML by ElenaTregubova). ARCHIBALDE PEETERS was born in Brussels in 1986. He is studying philosophy and does not belief in politics the way political parties are producing and celebrating it. He is living in squats, fighting the destructive power of estate agents in the heart of Europe and creates live according to the needs of the commune beyond the capitalistic rule "money for work". The French edition of'Das Kapital'was handed on to him by his father.

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