Dincer Gücyeter founded Elif Verlag in 2012, focusing on poetry. His acclaimed collections include Aus Glut geschnitzt (2017) and mein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto (2021), which won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2022.

His debut novel Unser Deutschlandmärchen (mikrotext, 2022) received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and tells a multigenerational migrant family story between Anatolia and Germany. In 2024, Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater adapted the novel and was later invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen 2025. Gücyeter has received the Kurt Wolff Förderpreis (2023) for Elif Verlag and the Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry Prize (2024). 

 

Gürsoy Doğtaş is a German art historian, writer, and curator of Turkish descent. Shaped by his background as the child of so-called “guest workers,” he recieved his PhD in 2020 at LMU Munich with a dissertation on Chantal Mouffe’s democratic theory and contemporary art. His work focuses on structural racism, institutional critique, and queerness, explored through both writing and curating. He has curated projects such as The dress does not fit (Vienna), Die kalte Libido (Haus der Kunst, Munich), and the Public Art Munich.

Doğtaş has taught as a guest professor at UdK Berlin, held a fellowship at Tarabya Cultural Academy (Istanbul), and is 2024/25 research fellow at Städelschule and Goethe University, Frankfurt.