All events can also be found via the official event calendar Frankfurt Connect.

Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University in the United States, teaching courses on the history of Islamic thought, Islamic theology, and Islamic philosophy. From October 2024 he will be Professor for Abrahamitic Religions in Oxford, United Kingdom. Griffel studied philosophy, Arabic literature, and Islamic studies at universities in Göttingen (Germany), Damascus, Berlin, and London, and holds a PhD from the Freie Universität in Berlin. He worked as a research fellow at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut, Lebanon, before moving on to his position at Yale. His published works cover Al-Ghazali’s contribution to the development of Islamic theology and the history of philosophy; Griffel published German translations of works by Al-Ghazali (‘Faysal al-tafriqa’) and Ibn Rushd, namely his ‘Fasl al-maqal’. 

Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster. His research focuses on Islamic philosophy, kalam and mysticism. In 2024, he received the “Manfred Görg Prize” from the “Friends of Abraham” society, in 2019 the “Voltaire Prize for Tolerance and International Understanding” and the “German Dialogue Prize” in the “Science and Education” category. His numerous book publications include a complete new translation of the Quran (2009), the theological essay “Hingabe” (2015) and the book “Licht über Licht” (2021), an examination of religious philosophy in Islam.

Author, translator and Islamic scholar. In December 2024 he will publish: “Der arabische Diwan. The most beautiful poems from pre-Islamic and early Islamic times” in the Andere Bibliothek by Aufbau Verlag. It is the first representative anthology of ancient Arabic poetry in German for over 150 years.

Born in Manila in 1967. She studied film, audiovisual communication and Filipino literary history and teaches Filipino literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines. Her first novel, “Makinilyang Altar” (“Typewriter Altar”), was published in 2002, followed by “Mga Prodigal” in 2010. In 2024, Edition Tincatinca published the bilingual poetry collection “Offenes Meer”, translated from Tagalog into German by Annette Hug. It is the first comprehensive German translation from Tagalog into German and number 1 on Litprom’s picks of best new translated literature (“Weltempfänger”) in fall 2024.

Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines until his recent retirement. In addition to his academic work, he has published more than thirty books, including fiction and non-fiction as well as numerous plays and screenplays. 

Two novels by Dalisay have already been published by Transit Buchverlag in German translation, “Last Call Manila” and “Killing Time in a Warm Place”, both translated from English by Niko Fröba.

Born in 1970, lives as a freelance author and translator in Zurich. From 1992 to 1994, she studied at the Diliman Campus of the University of the Philippines, where she learned Tagalog. Her German translation of Allan N. Derain's novel “Aswanglaut” will be published in 2025.

Born in 1985, studied economics, politics and literature in Freiburg, Berlin and Würzburg. He works as a translator and journalist.

Studied English and German literature in Freiburg, Oxford and Berlin. She co-founded and has been writing on TraLaLit since 2018, mainly about contemporary English literature and classics, primarily from Great Britain. She is also interested in forgotten female authors and translators.