Martin Jankowski, born in 1965 in Greifswald, is a Berlin-based writer who belonged to the oppositional Leipzig scene as a singer and songwriter in the 1980s and was subjected to “measures of subversion” by the Stasi. After 1989, he published numerous songs, four volumes of poetry, short stories, collections of essays, literary criticism, nonfiction books on art, and a novel. His texts have been translated into 19 languages and have received various awards. Jankowski regularly appears at international festivals and universities, leads international cultural projects, and has hosted literary salons for many years. As a project manager, he coordinated, with the Berliner Literarische Aktion e.V., among others, the Jakarta Berlin Arts Festival in 2011, the STADTSPRACHEN Festival in 2016; the Urban Dictionary Berlin-New York festival in 2018, and the Middle East Union Festival and UNRAST Berlin – the German-Polish Literature Forum in 2021. Since 2017, he has been the project director of PARATAXE and editor of the multilingual Berlin stadtsprachen magazine. Jankowski is a member of PEN Berlin and was, among other things, co-founder of the international literature festival berlin (ilb, 2001) and the Network of Independent Literary Scene Berlin (NFLB, 2015). Numerous publications and projects connect him with Asian cultures. In 2021, together with Vietnamese friends from Berlin, he founded the Berlin Asia Arts Club at Novilla.