The collective experiments with participatory performance concepts and with musical material in a variety of spaces. Collaboration, in whatever form, with laypeople plays a crucial role. Out of their experiences with numerous experiments in instrument building, the dialogue with artists, and workshops with children, youth, and adults, there have emerged a variety of musical performance projects dealing above all with education and urban development. For many years, the collective has operated the project space ANTJE ØKLESUND, where many of their ideas were born.

Greta Taubert is a reporter and author in Leipzig and Berlin. She writes, among others, for Die Zeit and Zeit Magazin and in her award-winning investigative reports deals with the issues of plastic and the circular economy. Her gonzo-journalistic non-fiction books Apokalypse Jetzt (Apocalypse now) and Im Club der Zeitmillionäre (The club of time millionaires), in which she tries out social utopias, have been published with Eichborn. A graduate in journalism and alumna of the Young Journalist Program (JONA) of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, she trained with the Berliner Zeitung and her permanent search for new narratives takes the form of essays, articles, books, podcasts, and stage formats. Website: www.greta-taubert.de  Instagram: @thegreattaubert

Ilija Trojanow is a writer, publicist, and initiator of the conversation series “Utopischer Raum” (Utopian space). He is the author of novels (The Collector of Worlds; The Lamentations of Zeno; Macht und Widerstand; Tausend und ein Morgen) as well as cultural and political essays (Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West, with Ranjit Hoskoté; Angriff auf die Freiheit, with Juli Zeh; Der überflüssige Mensch; Nach der Flucht). Films: Vorwärts und nie vergessen; Oasen der Freiheit.

Paulina Fröhlich is Deputy Managing Director and Head of Resilient Democracy at the think tank “Das Progressive Zentrum” (The progressive center). She directs the democracy conference “Innocracy” and has co-authored studies. After studying geography, Islamic studies, and water management, she co-founded the initiative Kleiner Fünf, which helps people counter right-wing populism with “radical politeness.” In 2020, the German business magazine Capital named Paulina as “Top 40 under 40” in the “Society and Science” category. In 2023, she was appointed to the Forum #Zukunftsstrategie at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.