Thorsten Sadowsky (born 1961) studied history, philosophy, and ethnology at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1996. He was director 2006-2008 of the Kunsthalle Aarhus, Denmark; 2008 he was the founding director of the Museum of Western Art, Germany; from 2013-2018 director of the Kirchner Museum Davos; and since 2018 he is director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Thorsten Sadowsky is the author of numerous publications on classical modern and contemporary art. Kerstin Stremmel studied art history and German language and literature in Cologne and Bonn and received her doctorate in 2000 with a thesis on winged pictures. More recent photographic representations of classics of the fine arts. She works as a freelance author for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and teaches as a guest lecturer at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich. Karl-Markus Gauss (born 1954 in Salzburg) is an Austrian writer and lives there. Besides his work as an essayist for the Suddeutsche Zeitung, he writes reviews and is editor of the magazine Literatur und Kritik. At the end of 2006 he was accepted into the German Academy for Language and Poetry.