Klaus Cäsar Zehrer, born in Schwabach in 1969, lives in Berlin as a freelance writer, editor and translator. His first book with Diogenes Verlag, The Genius, was named the best debut novel of 2017 by the literary blogging collective Das Debüt. Klaus Cäsar Zehrer has a doctorate in Cultural Studies, and edited, together with Robert Gernhard, the classic work of comic verse Hell und Schnell. He also plays for the German national writers’ football team.

Uli Krappen, born in Krefeld Uerdingen in 1961, worked as a stewardess before studying at the Seeger Art School in Munich and then the Bavarian Academy for Photography. She illustrates children's books, creates porcelain and stationery and lives in Marburg and southern France as a painter and illustrator.