Sabine Küper-Büsch
Born in Werne, Germany
MA in Political Science/ Sociology and German Literature, University of Hamburg. Specialisation on Turkey and the Middle East.
Publication: “Frauen in der Türkei zwischen Feminismus und Reislamisierung.” (Women in Turkey between Feminism and Islamisation), London, Hamburg 1992.
The director chose Istanbul as her residence in 1992 and is a strict but loving critic of Turkey and its development process. As a correspondent for the German news channel n-tv she has traveled to destinations like Tehran, Damascus, Cyprus and Baghdad since 1997.
Many of articles by the director about topics in Turkey, Iran and Iraq
can be found in the archive of the weekly print-magazine jungle
world,
located in Berlin.
Founding Member and Director of diyalog, promotion of cultural exchange with Turkey.
Thomas Büsch
Born in Berlin, Germany
Studied Visual Communication, Science of Art and Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kassel, focus: film and video. Research studies in Juba, Southern Sudan and Arabic studies. MA in Visual Communication "The Esthetic of the Unsettled".
He worked as project manager for international art exhibitions with Christos M. Joachimides - Zeitgeist Society Berlin -, Norman Rosenthal - Royal Academy London - and Jan Hoet - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent.
1996 he has been the founder and publisher of the online magazine clubmedia.
He has lived in Istanbul since 1998, during this period he was creative director for online presentations for Anadolu Grubu Turkey and other projects; he was also part time instructor at Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty for Communication.
Since 2001 he has been producing TV-programs and documentaries in partnership with Sabine Küper.
Awards: 1993/94 P.S.1 Residency New York City; 1997 Fellowship Stiftung Starke Berlin; 1998 Residency Istanbul Berlin Senat for Science, Research and Culture.
Founding Member and Secretary General of diyalog, promotion of cultural exchange with Turkey.
The News channel based in Colonge, Germany.
Promotion of intercultural understanding to strengthen the dialogue between Turkey and other countries.
Experimental non-linear storytelling in hypermedia.
Weekly print magazine located in Berlin.