Our contributors
The team managing LeipGlo.com or producing our content embody the glocal spirit of this webzine. They are mostly volunteers. All are based in increasingly cosmopolitan Leipzig or have a strong connection to the city, and also international experience. They sport diverse nationalities, backgrounds and interests. They’ll be regularly taking on topics they’re passionate about from their own unique, hybridized perspectives – combining the local and international (global) elements they’ve gathered along their own trajectories. Expect opinion pieces, reviews and other event- or show-specific posts, poetry and short stories, and tips on how to navigate daily life as a world citizen and Leipzig resident.
We hold monthly editorial meetings at Basislager Coworking, our operations hub. Readers will be invited to some of them, to meet our contributors and brainstorm story ideas.
Managing Team
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro: Founder/Business Manager
Heiner Uebbing: Editor-in-Chief
Lisa Renner: Community Outreach Manager
Jorge Serrano Paul: IT Manager/Matching.LeipGlo.com/Covid.LeipGlo.com
Culture & Entertainment
Maeshelle West-Davies: Open Mic
Matthew Campbell: Editing
Writers
Nils Müller
Woher kommst du und was machst du?
Geboren in Leipzig lebe ich schreibend hier.
Was machst du für LeipGlo?
Ich helfe den Menschen Leipzig über seine Künstler näher zu bringen.
Was sind deine Hobbies?
Die Erholung in der Gartenarbeit.
Was suchst du?
Den Stein der Weisen in einem Haufen Sand.
Lito Seizani
Where are you from and what do you do?
Translator-writer from Athens, currently working in Leipzig.
What do you do for LeipGlo?
Enjoy writing about culture (books, art, films) and travel.
What are your hobbies?
Reading literature, writing poetry, visiting museums, learning languages.
What are you in search of?
The “ideal bench!”
Svetlana Lavochkina
Where are you from and what do you do?
A Ukrainian with a 20-year track record in Germany, native Russian speaker writing in English and translating Ukrainian poetry. I walk the classical borderline between a teacher and a writer.
What do you do for LeipGlo?
I do all sorts of multilingual literary acrobatic mischief, ranging from a stanza to judging a quadrilingual contest.
What are your hobbies?
An ardent baker of crazy cakes.
What are you in search of?
Perfect poetry (border)lines.
Chrissy Orlowski
Where are you from and what do you do?
I am a cultural analyst, and I’m from southern Ontario in the land of maple syrup, hockey, moose, and bears.
What do you do for LeipGlo?
I encourage others to check it out, and I also enjoy writing about food, drinks, and the cultures involved.
What are your hobbies?
Watching Star Trek: TNG, lots of other sci-fi, and Gilmore Girls. I also read sci-fi and some other genres. I love to cook and bake – yes, I’m learning how to make German desserts.
What are you in search of?
Creating incredible memories.
Hannah Sapunor-Davis
Prof. Helena Flam
Where are you from and what do you do?
I’m a nomad who got stuck in Leipzig as a professor of sociology.
What do you do for LeipGlo?
I cite from my mind’s travelling logs.
What are your hobbies?
Exploring. Sightseeing. I’m a great consumer of fiction, and like good art exhibits, an occasional concert, film and biking.
What are you in search of?
I think I stopped looking.
App Development
Ye-Absira Misikire: Frontend
Philipp Ludwig: Backend
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