Dupaski began writing poetry on the 19th floor of a São Paulo apartment building. In Tokyo he forgot his poems to the skateboards of Shibuya, only to pick them up again in the suburbs of The Heart of It All (Ohio, USA). One night in Gooski’s bar, in the Polish Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Dupaski first contemplated moving to Poland to discover how he wound up with such a surname (see The Dupa in Plotki’s ‘Bodies’ issue). He now finishes poems on trains between Kraków and Sędziszów Małopolski, and while waiting for flights (always delayed) back to Ohio. He also teaches English and is finishing his master's degree program at the Jagiellonian University with a focus on Polish literature and memory and exile studies. He is still unsure whether he should change his surname. He is still in search of the best kremówka pastry Kraków has to offer.
Amelie Kutter, Berlin
I can't really remember times without commuting: commuting between the village Schöntal and the city Stuttgart(childhood), different subjects of study and work as well as living places in Central and East European countries. After all it is no surprise that I met once PLOTKI at the Institute for Eastern European Studies in Berlin and that I stuck to this pathetic project of cross culture productivity... European Fellow at the Collegium Polonicum/European University Viadrina, familiar with Politcal Science and Slavic Languages, 31 old.
Andreea Mascan, Cluj-Napoca
Born in 1981 very close to a border. Later on I decided to leave the borders for the "Festland" which was in my case Cluj. Here a have completed my studies. Then I got stucked here for another year. At the age of 24 I decided to become "serious" and now I am planning a "Balcanic Union", in order to do that I will study the european one (2006-...). And so hopefully I will become a member of the Plotki-For-Students-Comitee. In a few years I will open my own country, until then I am a proud citizen of Plotkiland.
Anna Voswinckel, Berlin / Zürich
Anna Voswinckel born 1975, studied graphic design in Hamburg. Moved to Berlin in 2000. Immediately after her arrival in town she joined the Plotki network because of the tempting prospect of free travels to the strangest places and gossip around with most charming people around the Bloc. In the Plotki Universe she worked as photographer, designer, image editor, a few times writer. After working as a book-designer in Switzerland, she got caught by this absolutely non-Plotki country, and currently studies "Cultural & Gender Studies" at "Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich". She works as a freelance graphic-designer in Berlin and Zürich.
Assen Ivanov, Amsterdam
Assen Ivanov - freelance graphic designer and visual artist, based in Amsterdam since 1996. Published the book "Streetread" in 2002; founded the audio-visual collective "Flow" in 2004 (in collaboration with K.Dobrev - bass player). Passion for: underground music, travelling, European cinema, reading, writing, ecology, football...
Besard Hoxha, Tirana
My body parts have different passports, my soul different religions; my religion different sects and my tongue spells different tastes. I am trying to lose my definition If you want to know me then read 'As Man Grows Older' by Italo Svevo and listen to Stateless (MDH band and U2) and think of anything of me. I like lounge music by the way and communication is my best art ever. Ah, I forgot to tell you my name, I am Besard.
Billi
Billi from Pilli was born on the east bank of the Nistru river and raised to a champion belly-dancer and a Transylvanian freak. After spending many years wondering around the bloc searching for, but failing to find, a man with a sausage in his pocket he enrolled at the Central European University in Budapest to study sociology. Naturally this led him on an upward spiral of drink, drugs and multi- disciplinary-orgies. It was only after he graduated that he realised he had been barking up the wrong tree and so decided to dedicate his life to being an on-line Plotki editor. Happily this led him to a man with a sausage in his pocket. He is a good, hard working, but simple, Plotkyist.
Carmen von Kende, Berlin
born in New York, 1978; studied East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (M.A.); photography now; lives and works in Berlin.
Carolina Singeisen, Basel
1977, Switzerland, lives and works as an artist and teacher in Basel. What I like: To draw what I see, to see what I dream, to swim in the lake, to ask what they make, to travel with the train, to dance in the lane. And lots of other things, of course.
Christian Binder
Christian was born 22 years ago in Brasov, Romania. Due to his transilvanian roots he's a rather calm person, but after living the last eight years in Bern (capital of Switzerland and slow people) his pulse went down to two beats per minute. He also learnt how to get into short hibernations on many bustravels from the city where bears are kept in a ditch, to the city where bears are free to eat everything the locals throw away (neither of those bears hibernates, so don't think of any conection). Currently searching a place with less animals, but more people acting alike.
Claudia Lichnofsky
Claudia Lichnofsky was born in 1975 and finished her studies in Political Science in 2002. She nearly finished her second studies (MA) in pedagogics, teaching German as a foreign language and South-east European history. Because she is interested in various fields, she changed her studies several times, started a second one and studied in Hannover, Wuppertal, Berlin, Brighton, Belgrade and Novi Sad. She got interested in Eastern Europe when the wall fall, travelled to a lot of Eastern European countries and sticked and returned several times to Serbia (this is one of the rare continuities in her life), where she also spend 1,5 years studying and working as a teacher of German at technical faculty. There she could make a lot of experiences (with Serbia, teaching, intercultural conflicts, with anti-Semitism), also with homophobia which inspired her for a contribution to the Plotki femzine.
e-Mail: postanclaudia @ web.de
Damien Brailly
Born in 1980 in Lyon. Since 2005 i study photography in Warsaw where i try to find my Italian roots and improve my English, without great success till now.
Elis Aunaste
1979, Estonia. Rather dark corner to be born in - the cause of karma debt, I realized. Later pushed myself through the studies of psychology. Why oh why, I thought after an enlightening experience in the field of military psychology. I literally stopped behaving ridiculously from that clear moment on and found myself in Colombia. At the present moment I'm in Estonia again, working in the field of media creating texts, photos and doing other irrational and amusing things. Proud to be a Plotkist since the beginning of 2007.
Felix Wolf, Berlin
Felix was born 1979 in Berlin and still lives in that city, now being a student of political science. As a member of the Berlin based Aid Initiative for Romania and Moldova he got to know a lot of things about Eastern Europe. After he observed PLOTKI activities from a distance for some years he finally followed the call in 2003 when the "Voluntary" seminar was in preparation. As funding got scarce, he joined PLOTKI’s weak finance and investment branch to develop future funds for further travelling. Among other stuff he is interested in trade union movements in the East and the West and has some affinity to Romanian-speaking countries.
Franziska Smolnik, Berlin
Born near the inner-German border, I step by step approached the east: not only physically (moving to Berlin) but also mentally (studying eastern European studies) and between the two making somehow contact with the world of plotki. just recently I came back from heavenly Georgia – and still deciding whether this was the point my Eastern exploration was invisibly directed to.
Gabrijela Ivanov, Zagreb
gabrijela ivanov, gabe born: 31.5.1976, Zadar, Croatia @ 9:10 am status: work in progress. exuberantly, almost dangerously curious. interests: online/sharing communities/projects, gender issues, queer theories and practices, holistic and permacultural approach, human as body-mind-spirit complex, design, web programming, open software, vj-ing
facts: grew up in zadar, croatia graduated from university of computer science in zagreb, worked in a software company, went to women's studies, worked in a women's ngo, co-founded an ngo in croatia called commonzone, alliance for creative development, (top of my priority list) been involved in (film and pop culture) printed and online magazines. member of core organizing team of Tabor FF, international short film festival in croatia.
Sociologist born in Bucharest/Romania, but I have been living in Hungary, Poland and currently in Denmark. Probably life will bring me back South soon. I like everything good and beautiful and I try to do a bit of everything: research, writing, photo, paint.
Ira Hadzic
I was born 1979 in Sarajevo. At the age of eight I became a pioneer and swore an oath to always learn and work diligently. That is why at the heart of my work lies a learning: How to think about how things might be different. As learning is living and vice versa, my biographical facts have been born out of the attempt to understand the apparently foreign and the apparently familiar and thus to explore beyond the ‘taken-for-granted’. I studied Cultural Anthropology and American Culture and Literature in Germany and England. After graduating (MA) in 2005 I moved to Berlin where I currently live. My field of work mainly includes film, photography, writing, exhibition, observation, translation (in any sense) and improvisation. Web: http://www.meereshund.eu
Irina Dragan, Bucharest
I was born in Bucharest, Romania, in early September – by ’early’ I mean end of summer, and not beginning of autumn, since the only thing that I consider to have in common with this month is it’s close vicinity to the summer. I am studying International Relations, always working to save something - nature, people, ideas, small businesses, I lost track of what exactly. It is not out of boundless magnanimity. but rather out of some kind of egocentrism: I like to think of myself as capable of making a difference to this world, sometime sooner or later.
And this was also a reason enough for me to join the Plotki team.
Irina Romanadze, Odessa
I was born 22 years ago at the very beginning of the new era – era of total changes in every day lives of thousand people. And I’m myself was a significant change in the lives of my parents. I grew at a peaceful country in little city with the funny name – Mirnyi (it means peaceful) and that is why I was named Irina (peace). Then, because of man, I moved to the capital of Ukraine – Kiev and lived there with him, with me beloved father. When I entered the University I moved again… because of man, my beloved husband. Today I have enough to be happy – I’m married, I have daughter and son, I work to make the World better.
Isabella Willinger, Berlin
Isabella Willinger studied Slavic Studies, American Studies and Sociology in Berlin, Prague and New York. She finished her studies with an MA thesis on the Russian-Ukrainian film-director Kira Muratova, attempting to carve out a space within feminist film theory for a theory of filmic performativity and subversion through the senses. Now she is attending the documentary directing program of Munich film school. She has been with plotki as a writer and editor since 2001.
Jaga Jankowska, London
Born in Warsaw. For some time lived in a "beautiful" town of Legionowo (and some forests nearby). The beauty of Legionowo was to strong for her – she escaped to Lublin. Tried to study Art Education on UMCS. Failed. Back in Warsaw started to study Graphic Arts on Fine Arts Academy. Completed. Escaped to Paris. Tried to survive as a designer in France and study Publishing & Press at Arts Déco. Completed. Escaped to London. In present she tries once again to survive as a designer/illustrator; this time in UK. *Somewhere in between she met Mr. Hurrle who told her some crazy stories (most of them were not true), but one (the one about PLOTKI) had a terrible effect on her - she converted to Plotkism. * http://www.creabook.com/book_sommaire.cfm?num=3664
Jaka Primorac, Zagreb
Born in 1977, Zagreb, Croatia. Studied sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. Received MA in Culture and Society at CEU/CSS, Warsaw and Budapest, accredited by Lancaster University, UK. Works at the Institute for International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia. Likes to take photographs and to travel.
Jakob Hurrle, Berlin/ Praha
Born in Freiburg, West Germany, with two birth certificates: German and Czechoslovak. The latter as a result of my mother's emigrant background. The Czech thing got strengthened during 18 months of volunteer service in Brno. Later, the awkward idea appeared that once I will make money out of my interest for Central and Eastern European. In consequence, I studied Eastern European Studies at Berlin Free University. I am 27 now and still a student.
Jarek Sierpiński, Berlin
Born in 1975 in Gdańsk. Emigrated with his parents to Germany in 1981. Lived in the region of Stuttgart. Studied painting at the State Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Works together with his friend in Berlin since 2002 as an illustrator and website-designer under the name "Apfel Zet" and tries to fill his spare time with drawing comics and listening to sixties-music.
Graduated from Ethiopian Studies and Russian Philology at Warsaw University and University Hamburg. Musician, author and editor of the Polish anthropological-cultural magazine "op.cit.", member of the off-theatre Międzymiastowa, lover of sea port cities; currently living in Warsaw.
Justin Hyatt, Prague
When I considered how to haphazardly engage in a creative life while at the same time putting ajvar on the table, I faced the following dilemma: Should i steal a saxophone and go busking in order to buy a camera and win a photo competition and with the cash a computer to write stories, or first try my luck with the computer, then the camera and lastly the sax, or rather the middle way of camera first. I chose this middle ground, but am wondering if I shouldn't have included more variables to begin with.
Kajetan Tadrowski, Frankfurt a.M.
Kajetan Martin Maria Tadrowski, born 1975 in Posen, Poland, worked a.o. as a delivery boy of flowers, iceman, truck-driver, carpenter, call-center-agent, journalist and teacher for German language. Currently busy as integration course teacher, student, father and friend. Contemporary motto of live: "nil omne". Most important aim: to overcome phlegm.
Katarzyna Pabijanek
professional dilettante, feminist, and nomad. I make things out of light, pixels, cleverness, brute force, insomnia, and whatever junk I find in my pockets. I work as a curator and critic, city hopping between Berlin, Budapest, Cracow, and Warsaw.
Kristin Höltge, Berlin/London
Born and raised in the East bloc and currently living in London, Kristin is a fan of Plotki for its talented and unconventional people, its creative and exploratory projects, and its inclusive approach. She joint Plotki in 2003.
Krzysztof Cibor, Warszawa
juggler, writer, cyclist, budding comic designer and editor of (op.cit.,) - the Polish anthropological-cultural magazine.
Laura Kopecká, Praha
Born January 2nd 1976 on an island on Vltava river in the middle of Prague. Doctoral student at Charles University in Prague. After her graduating from Polish and Ukranian studies, she became a PhD student. The theme of her Ph.D. thesis is the "New York Group" of Ukrainian writers from the USA. Interpreter and translator from Polish and Ukrainian languages. Singer in the Balkan and East-Slavic inspired rock band "Ahmed má hlad" from Libeò. She lives in Prague again, after a while.
Marek Canek, Praha
A hill-billy by origin. Born and lived most of his life in Vrchlabi/Hohenelbe. Escaped the mentality of the small town at the age of 19. Went to Prague. Found out that this was a village, too. Did not go to New York but to Warsaw to study sociology. Interested in migration, Czech-Slovak relations and hygiene. Collects film advertisements from the 80s.
Martin Petrtyl, Praha
Born in 1977 in, that time, uranium mining town Pribram near Prague. After studying Political Sciences, International Relationships in Prague Charles University I denied army service so I had to work at civilian service. Then I lived 5 months in China as an English language teacher - it was really cruel experience. Now I serve at the Ministry of Environment (young bored bureaucrat), and study postgradually in Prague again.
Michal Januszaniec, Warszawa
Born 1977, in the final year student of social sciences at Warsaw University, works at the Art Center STUDIO in Warsaw.
Millay Hyatt
Born in the early seventies in a big hot state of the U.S., Millay roamed restlessly back and forth across the Atlantic for twenty-eight years until she found Berlin. She has been poor in Paris, on the radio in Alaska, and happy riding the bus in Los Angeles. She writes and thinks about utopia, flesh, libraries, Hegel, and animals, likes cold dark winters, traveling by land, and is something of a book fetishist. She is allowed to call herself Doctor which she occasionally does.
Miriam Knichalla
Born in the woods, grown up with the smell of big fat piggies and still looking for an answer to the question: Why is god almost ever hiding in a foxhole? While waiting for the response to come, me is exploring stuff. Main project at the moment: Trying to get rid of my lifestyle bourgois. You need to know that it sucks me in like hell. And I might lose. "Good girls, little girls can never be warriors." But there is no guarantee.
Myroslava Keryk, L’viv
Born in a village near the Polish-Ukrainian border, studied history in famous not only in Ukraine city L’viv/Lemberg/Lwów and later moved to study history and sociology to the Central European capitals – Budapest and Warsaw. After travelling around the Central Europe feels that she belongs to this part of the world and here is her place, at least for now.
Nadine Wojcik, Berlin
obsessed Plotki member ever since it started. freelanced journalist, Berlin. www.journalistka.de
Natalia Marianchyk
Journalist, Kyiv Was born in Kyiv in 1986, just the same year when the Chornobyl disaster happened. Because of it I am usually called "kid of Chornobyl". My birthday is the 24th of August, which is the Independence Day in Ukraine since 1991 so I try to be patriotic and independent working on any project. Usually I am where the most exciting stuff in happening in Kyiv – art vernisages, parties, presentations, concerts, discos. I love my city and want other people to love it as well. Trying to search for unusual and interesting information spending my young years in Kyiv. Former deputy editor in local entertaining English-language mag What's On.
Nicole Dörr, Berlin
Snow, falling from the sky in big flakes. Touches the earth and melts, because it was in February 1978 and in February it is already quite warm in the village. The smelling of fresh air, Outside. Everything can happen to you, life goes in circles, seasons. Nicole likes winter and summer, wild dancing and swimming in a lake, guitar playing, coffee. She is endlessly homesick of the east that she still doesn't know any more. Water. In Nicole's work and life, the dialogue of passion and reason are the motors of creativity. She is always learning new things and so sometimes needs a rest. At the moment, she lives in Firenze. Romania and Plotkisty deeply opened Nicole for images. Now she wants to found, together with others, the Pilotki-utopia. You will see.
Paulina Jędrzejewska, Warszawa
Paulina is completely average in everyway, has no interesting characteristics, life history and a personality which is beyond boring. This is reflected in her work. She was born in a well, the offspring of a three legged traveling magician and a tv weather girl and spent her early life scraping a living as a sock saleswoman in Warsaw before being given a camera by a pleased customer. She has an IQ for 189, was Miss Poland seven years running and hold the current Olympic record for 100m breaststroke. Her interests are collecting shoe laces and interstellar space travel.
Piotr Klawsiuc, Gdańsk
- graduated sociology (thesis: Why do people snap photos?) in Torun, born in the middle of nowhere (Płlczyn Zdrój '78) I live in Gdansk. My grandma is Russian, but she keeps it in secret, my second grandma was "tutejsza" - "from here" - not belonging to any nationality, my girlfriend is "una Triestina" - a Pole who speaks better Italian than Polish. That's why I feel good in Plotki Babel tower. Another reason to be in the project - there are many people who find it interesting to tell and listen to everyday stories from other worlds and there are Germans among us, who know how to organise it all. At the moment I'm a journalist for a local newspaper and a teacher.
Roman Bittner
Born in 1971 in Berlin. He grows up at the Kaiserdamm, went to school in Ulm and studied Grafik-Design at the State Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Works now together with his friend in Berlin since 2002 as an illustrator and grafik-designer under the name "Apfel Zet". His spare time he tries to fill with Rockmusic, Soccer, Architecture and his wife dschulia and the twins nemo und mia.
sinisterpenguin is a racist, sexist, homophobe traveling throughout europe in an attempt to bring about a totalitarian fascist regime dominated by the ginger race. Glossopian by ethnicity. Last seen in Prague.
Stephanie Endter, Berlin
Born 1979 in Bavaria. Left the fairy tale heimat for Paris to assist photographers and later crossed the channel to England, where she studied and graduated in photography and digital imaging. While moving between countries, cities and jobs, she somehow got infected with the plotki virus. She is now working as a freelance photographer in Berlin. www.stephoto.de
The Novak, Cluj-Napoca
Born in 1982, grown up in the little village "Cocomârla" in the Carpathian Mountains ( together with a number of sisters & brothers ). Permanent student of comparative literature in Klausenburg/Cluj. Professional sausage-eater . Profound hatred for all that environmental crap, NGOs and living birds. "When I was young they sang comunist songs instead of Pink Floyd, Cave or Cohen. I'm always writing for Djaka, my kangaroo, for Kolja, my tortoise and for Vasile my puppet from Prague. I'm not lazy i am reflective ( some decent people advised me to write that )". All my stories are about me me me me me
Tomas Strazay, Bratislava
Born about 150 kilometers South-East of Cracow; grew up about 100 kilometers South of Brno, spent part of his lifetime about 500 kilometers East of Berlin, lives about 300 kilometers South-East of Prague, 200 kilometers North-West of Budapest, and 60 kilometers East of Vienna. A Slovak.
Vid Jeraj, Zagreb
Freelance journalist and writer, adores EE writers and AA music. On a daily basis reads a sum of letters fitting with metropolis newspapers since age of four, talks 1/4 of it and types a certain half altogether.
Dupaski began writing poetry on the 19th floor of a São Paulo apartment building. In Tokyo he forgot his poems to the skateboards of Shibuya, only to pick them up again in the suburbs of The Heart of It All (Ohio, USA). One night in Gooski’s bar, in the Polish Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Dupaski first contemplated moving to Poland to discover how he wound up with such a surname (see 
Born in 1981 very close to a border. Later on I decided to leave the borders for the "Festland" which was in my case Cluj. Here a have completed my studies. Then I got stucked here for another year. At the age of 24 I decided to become "serious" and now I am planning a "Balcanic Union", in order to do that I will study the european one (2006-...). And so hopefully I will become a member of the Plotki-For-Students-Comitee. In a few years I will open my own country, until then I am a proud citizen of Plotkiland. 
Anna Voswinckel born 1975, studied graphic design in Hamburg. Moved to Berlin in 2000. Immediately after her arrival in town she joined the Plotki network because of the tempting prospect of free travels to the strangest places and gossip around with most charming people around the Bloc. In the Plotki Universe she worked as photographer, designer, image editor, a few times writer. After working as a book-designer in Switzerland, she got caught by this absolutely non-Plotki country, and currently studies "Cultural & Gender Studies" at "Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich". She works as a freelance graphic-designer in Berlin and Zürich.
Assen Ivanov - freelance graphic designer and visual artist, based in Amsterdam since 1996. Published the book "Streetread" in 2002; founded the audio-visual collective "Flow" in 2004 (in collaboration with K.Dobrev - bass player). Passion for: underground music, travelling, European cinema, reading, writing, ecology, football...
My body parts have different passports, my soul different religions; my religion different sects and my tongue spells different tastes. I am trying to lose my definition If you want to know me then read 'As Man Grows Older' by Italo Svevo and listen to Stateless (MDH band and U2) and think of anything of me. I like lounge music by the way and communication is my best art ever. Ah, I forgot to tell you my name, I am Besard.
Billi from Pilli was born on the east bank of the Nistru river and raised to a champion belly-dancer and a Transylvanian freak. After spending many years wondering around the bloc searching for, but failing to find, a man with a sausage in his pocket he enrolled at the Central European University in Budapest to study sociology. Naturally this led him on an upward spiral of drink, drugs and multi- disciplinary-orgies. It was only after he graduated that he realised he had been barking up the wrong tree and so decided to dedicate his life to being an on-line Plotki editor. Happily this led him to a man with a sausage in his pocket. He is a good, hard working, but simple, Plotkyist.
1977, Switzerland, lives and works as an artist and teacher in Basel. What I like: To draw what I see, to see what I dream, to swim in the lake, to ask what they make, to travel with the train, to dance in the lane. And lots of other things, of course.
Christian was born 22 years ago in Brasov, Romania. Due to his transilvanian roots he's a rather calm person, but after living the last eight years in Bern (capital of Switzerland and slow people) his pulse went down to two beats per minute. He also learnt how to get into short hibernations on many bustravels from the city where bears are kept in a ditch, to the city where bears are free to eat everything the locals throw away (neither of those bears hibernates, so don't think of any conection). Currently searching a place with less animals, but more people acting alike.
Claudia Lichnofsky was born in 1975 and finished her studies in Political Science in 2002. She nearly finished her second studies (MA) in pedagogics, teaching German as a foreign language and South-east European history. Because she is interested in various fields, she changed her studies several times, started a second one and studied in Hannover, Wuppertal, Berlin, Brighton, Belgrade and Novi Sad. She got interested in Eastern Europe when the wall fall, travelled to a lot of Eastern European countries and sticked and returned several times to Serbia (this is one of the rare continuities in her life), where she also spend 1,5 years studying and working as a teacher of German at technical faculty.
Born in 1980 in Lyon. Since 2005 i study photography in Warsaw where i try to find my Italian roots and improve my English, without great success till now.
1979, Estonia. Rather dark corner to be born in - the cause of karma debt, I realized. Later pushed myself through the studies of psychology. Why oh why, I thought after an enlightening experience in the field of military psychology. I literally stopped behaving ridiculously from that clear moment on and found myself in Colombia. At the present moment I'm in Estonia again, working in the field of media creating texts, photos and doing other irrational and amusing things. Proud to be a Plotkist since the beginning of 2007.
Felix was born 1979 in Berlin and still lives in that city, now being a student of political science. As a member of the Berlin based 
Born 1976 in Switzerland. Bank clerk. Art Student. Fischbau. Master of Art in Public Sphere. Büro des Vœux. Berlin residency.
Sociologist born in Bucharest/Romania, but I have been living in Hungary, Poland and currently in Denmark. Probably life will bring me back South soon. I like everything good and beautiful and I try to do a bit of everything: research, writing, photo, paint. 
I was born 1979 in Sarajevo. At the age of eight I became a pioneer and swore an oath to always learn and work diligently. That is why at the heart of my work lies a learning: How to think about how things might be different. As learning is living and vice versa, my biographical facts have been born out of the attempt to understand the apparently foreign and the apparently familiar and thus to explore beyond the ‘taken-for-granted’. I studied Cultural Anthropology and American Culture and Literature in Germany and England. After graduating (MA) in 2005 I moved to Berlin where I currently live. My field of work mainly includes film, photography, writing, exhibition, observation, translation (in any sense) and improvisation. Web: 
I was born in Bucharest, Romania, in early September – by ’early’ I mean end of summer, and not beginning of autumn, since the only thing that I consider to have in common with this month is it’s close vicinity to the summer. I am studying International Relations, always working to save something - nature, people, ideas, small businesses, I lost track of what exactly. It is not out of boundless magnanimity. but rather out of some kind of egocentrism: I like to think of myself as capable of making a difference to this world, sometime sooner or later.
I was born 22 years ago at the very beginning of the new era – era of total changes in every day lives of thousand people. And I’m myself was a significant change in the lives of my parents. 
Isabella Willinger studied Slavic Studies, American Studies and Sociology in Berlin, Prague and New York. She finished her studies with an MA thesis on the Russian-Ukrainian film-director Kira Muratova, attempting to carve out a space within feminist film theory for a theory of filmic performativity and subversion through the senses. Now she is attending the documentary directing program of Munich film school. She has been with plotki as a writer and editor since 2001. 
Born in 1975 in Gdańsk. Emigrated with his parents to Germany in 1981. Lived in the region of Stuttgart. Studied painting at the State Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Works together with his friend in Berlin since 2002 as an illustrator and website-designer under the name "Apfel Zet" and tries to fill his spare time with drawing comics and listening to 
When I considered how to haphazardly engage in a creative life while at the same time putting ajvar on the table, I faced the following dilemma: Should i steal a saxophone and go busking in order to buy a camera and win a photo competition and with the cash a computer to write stories, or first try my luck with the computer, then the camera and lastly the sax, or rather the middle way of camera first. I chose this middle ground, but am wondering if I shouldn't have included more variables to begin with. 
professional dilettante, feminist, and nomad. I make things out of light, pixels, cleverness, brute force, insomnia, and whatever junk I find in my pockets. I work as a curator and critic, city hopping between Berlin, Budapest, Cracow, and Warsaw. 
Born and raised in the East bloc and currently living in London, Kristin is a fan of Plotki for its talented and unconventional people, its creative and exploratory projects, and its inclusive approach. She joint Plotki in 2003. 
Born in 1977 in, that time, uranium mining town Pribram near Prague. After studying Political Sciences, International Relationships in Prague Charles University I denied army service so I had to work at civilian service. Then I lived 5 months in China as an English language teacher - it was really cruel experience. Now I serve at the Ministry of Environment (young bored bureaucrat), and study postgradually in Prague again. 
Born in the early seventies in a big hot state of the U.S., Millay roamed restlessly back and forth across the Atlantic for twenty-eight years until she found Berlin. She has been poor in Paris, on the radio in Alaska, and happy riding the bus in Los Angeles. She writes and thinks about utopia, flesh, libraries, Hegel, and animals, likes cold dark winters, traveling by land, and is something of a book fetishist. She is allowed to call herself Doctor which she occasionally does.
Born in the woods, grown up with the smell of big fat piggies and still looking for an answer to the question: Why is god almost ever hiding in a foxhole? While waiting for the response to come, me is exploring stuff. Main project at the moment: Trying to get rid of my lifestyle bourgois. You need to know that it sucks me in like hell. And I might lose. "Good girls, little girls can never be warriors." But there is no guarantee.
obsessed Plotki member ever since it started. freelanced journalist, Berlin.
Journalist, Kyiv
Snow, falling from the sky in big flakes. Touches the earth and melts, because it was in February 1978 and in February it is already quite warm in the village. The smelling of fresh air, Outside. Everything can happen to you, life goes in circles, seasons. Nicole likes winter and summer, wild dancing and swimming in a lake, guitar playing, coffee. She is endlessly homesick of the east that she still doesn't know any more. Water. In Nicole's work and life, the dialogue of passion and reason are the motors of creativity. She is always learning new things and so sometimes needs a rest. At the moment, she lives in Firenze. Romania and Plotkisty deeply opened Nicole for images. Now she wants to found, together with others, the Pilotki-utopia. You will see. 
Paulina is completely average in everyway, has no interesting characteristics, life history and a personality which is beyond boring. This is reflected in her work. She was born in a well, the offspring of a three legged traveling magician and a tv weather girl and spent her early life scraping a living as a sock saleswoman in Warsaw before being given a camera by a pleased customer. She has an IQ for 189, was Miss Poland seven years running and hold the current Olympic record for 100m breaststroke. Her interests are collecting shoe laces and interstellar space travel. 
Born in 1971 in Berlin. He grows up at the Kaiserdamm, went to school in Ulm and studied Grafik-Design at the State Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Works now together with his friend in Berlin since 2002 as an illustrator and grafik-designer under the name "Apfel Zet". His spare time he tries to fill with Rockmusic, Soccer, Architecture and his wife dschulia and the twins nemo und mia.
Spider from Mars...
sinisterpenguin is a racist, sexist, homophobe traveling throughout europe in an attempt to bring about a totalitarian fascist regime dominated by the ginger race. Glossopian by ethnicity. Last seen in Prague.
Born 1979 in Bavaria. Left the fairy tale heimat for Paris to assist photographers and later crossed the channel to England, where she studied and graduated in photography and digital imaging. While moving between countries, cities and jobs, she somehow got infected with the plotki virus. She is now working as a freelance photographer in Berlin. 
Born in 1982, grown up in the little village "Cocomârla" in the Carpathian Mountains ( together with a number of sisters & brothers ). Permanent student of comparative literature in Klausenburg/Cluj. Professional sausage-eater . Profound hatred for all that environmental crap, NGOs and living birds. "When I was young they sang comunist songs instead of Pink Floyd, Cave or Cohen. I'm always writing for Djaka, my kangaroo, for Kolja, my tortoise and for Vasile my puppet from Prague. I'm not lazy i am reflective ( some decent people advised me to write that )". All my stories are about me me me me me 
Freelance journalist and writer, adores EE writers and AA music. On a daily basis reads a sum of letters fitting with metropolis newspapers since age of four, talks 1/4 of it and types a certain half altogether. 
