Martin Jankowski

He grew up in Gotha and was part of the GDR's oppositional movement and participated in the legendary Monday demonstrations (that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall) of the 1980s in Leipzig as singer and poet.

From 2001 to 2004 he was also involved in the coordination of the internationales literaturfestival berlin, later he curated the “Specials” section of this festival.

From November 2003 to May 2004, he was chairman of the Deutsch-Indonesisches Kulturinstitut in Berlin and since May 2004 hosts the “Literatursalon am Kollwitzplatz“ for the literary magazine ndl.

In 2006, he received the Alfred-Döblin-grant of the Academy of Arts, Berlin and undertook a reading tour through Indonesia sponsored by the IndonesiaTera foundation and the German embassy.

Outside Germany he had been invited to reading tours and cultural festivals in Austria, Brasil, Chile, Finland, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, the UK, and the United States and he gave numerous guest lectures on literature and history at several universities in Chile, Indonesia, Italy and the USA.