Literaturforum Indien e.V.

Indologist who has been intensively engaged with Hindi literature since her diploma and doctoral studies at Humboldt University Berlin. She has worked at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin (Free University), Halle and Oslo. Since 2003 she has been a research associate at the Georg August University of Göttingen, teaching Hindi as well as Indian literary and cultural history. She also devotes herself to translating modern Hindi literature. She has been a member of the board of Literaturforum Indien e.V. since 2009, serving as Vice-Chair from 2015 to 2021.

Studied German Studies in Pune. She then began her doctoral research on "Marathi colonial satire" in the Department of Modern South Asian Studies at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, receiving a DFG scholarship from the Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University. She taught Marathi and Hindi in Heidelberg. She performs as a Kathak dancer in India and Germany. Since 2016 she has been working in the field of digitalisation and transformation management, with a focus on linguistic AI.

Jurist and entrepreneur. He has been a board member since 2021 on account of his legal and business expertise. His connections to India include his father, who was from Calcutta, his longstanding entrepreneurial activities, and his love of the thoughts and works of Rabindranath Tagore.

M.Phil., studied history, political science and geography in Patna and Delhi. He completed his German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), graduating with an M.Phil. Since April 2004 he has been a Hindi lecturer in the Department of Indology and Comparative Religious Studies at the Asia-Orient Institute (AOI) of the University of Tübingen.

Studied Indology and Iranian Studies. Her academic research focuses on the little-known Nuristani languages of Afghanistan, the Shina language spoken in Gilgit (Pakistan) and the Iranian language spoken over 1,000 years ago in the Khotan oasis on the Silk Road. In recent years she has become an enthusiastic reader and translator of modern literature in Hindi and Urdu.

Studying for a double bachelor's degree in Ethnology and the Cultures of South Asia and Tibet (with a focus on India). In her studies at the University of Leipzig she is particularly concerned with feminist and political themes in the Hindi-speaking sphere. She works as a student research assistant at the University of Leipzig and is committed to preserving South Asian Studies.

Studied Indology, Linguistics and Philosophy in Münster and Mainz. Since the beginning of her studies she has been interested in modern South Asian literature, initially in Hindi and later also in Sinhalese and English. Her doctoral dissertation, published in 2010, examined the contemporary Sinhalese short story. Since 2000 she has been a member of staff at the Institute of Indology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Studied German and Romance Studies in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1998 she became self-employed as a literary critic, feature author and moderator. In the same year she travelled to India for the first time and quickly began to specialise in the literatures of the Indian subcontinent. Numerous further trips to India and Pakistan followed. Since 2011 she has been a member of the "Weltempfänger" (World Receiver) best-list (Litprom). Since 2019 she has been a team member of the Cultural Office in Heidelberg and part of the coordination team of the UNESCO City of Literature. She is a member of PEN Deutschland and PEN Berlin.

Studied Indology in Heidelberg and New Delhi; M.A. in Hindi at Delhi University in 1991. From 1994 to 1999 she headed the New Delhi branch of the South Asia Institute Heidelberg. In 2000 she completed her doctorate in Heidelberg on the work of Hindi author G.M. Muktibodh (1917–1964). From 2000 to 2003 she worked in the DFG Priority Programme "Contested Centres: Orissa". From 2006 until her retirement in 2022 she was a Hindi lecturer at the University of Würzburg, with research interests in autobiographical writing by Dalits, women and trans persons in India and early Hindi novel literature. She has also translated extensively from Hindi, including short stories and poetry.

Completed her studies at Humboldt University Berlin in 1975 with a Master's in Indology (with Urdu as first language, Hindi and Sanskrit) and received her doctorate there in 1986 in Urdu literature. From 1990 to 2018 she was Urdu lecturer in the Department of Modern South Asian Studies at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. She has published articles on Urdu prose from the 19th century to the present, on Muslim reform movements of the 19th century, and on the literary formation of Muslim identities in South Asia, as well as numerous literary translations from Urdu, in particular short stories and poetry, and is co-author of a Urdu textbook.

Studied German and History. In the 1980s and 90s he taught German language and literature at the University of Poona and Banaras Hindu University. His encounter with Indian culture was formative and prompted him to work as a translator of contemporary Indian literature into German. He was a member of the board of Literaturforum Indien e.V. from 2009 to September 2021, serving as Chair from 2015 to 2021.

U.G.C. Prof. Emeritus Fellow, University of Mumbai; Germanist and Indologist (Dr. phil. Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, 1979). Associate Prof., Banaras Hindu University (1979–1988); Prof. of German and Head, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bombay/Mumbai, 1988–2003. Teaching and research in intercultural literature and philosophy, poet and translator of literature (Malayalam, Hindi, English, German). Founding member of Literaturforum Indien, board member from 2008 to 2015, Vice-Chair from 2012 to 2015, advisory board member since then.

Studied History and German Studies in Heidelberg. In 1983 he travelled to India for the first time, having acquired basic knowledge of Bengali from Alokeranjan Dasgupta. In 2003 he founded Draupadi Verlag, which has since published more than 160 titles, most of them related to India.

Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University, Sweden.