Our Team

Projektteam Poets translating Poets Festival

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

Dr. Martin Wälde, Director Goethe-Institut, Concept and Idea
Rashmi Dhanwani, Festival Curator and Project Consultant, Editor & Reportages
Jayashree Joshi, Coordinator of Translation Encounters in South Asia and Programmes in Germany, Co-Curator Festival Outreach Programme
Mary Therese Kurkalang, Festival Communications Head, Outreach and PR
Chandrika Javeri, Web Editor and Content Management
Amruta Nemivant, Co-Curator of Festival Photography Project and Sound Installation
Bhagirathi Raman, Co-Curator of Festival Outreach Programme
Hutoxi Avari, Head of Administration
Priya Dunakhe, Administration
Jutta Beyer, Website Consultant, Logistics Support
Magda Löb, Media and Communication Germany
Ela Gupta, PR Manager India
Hendrik Schnittker, Festival Assistant
  Robert D’Souza, Logistics, Hotels and Transport
Acknowledgment: Aishwarya Iyer: Initial Research (April 2015 – July 2015)

Photography Project

Rahab Allana, New Delhi, Curator
Andrea Fernandes: Mumbai / New Delhi
Munem Wasif: Dhaka
Madiha Aijaz: Karachi Natalie Soysa: Colombo
Roy Sinai: Chennai-Trivandrum
Soumya Sankar Bose: Kolkata
Vivek Muthuramalingam: Hyderabad
Yawan Rai: Gangtok/Sikkim

Goethe-Institut München / Berlin

Heike Friesel: Bereich Literatur
Bereich Internet
Viola Noll: Pressesprecherin Goethe-Institut

Our Partners

Literaturwerkstatt Berlin: Haus für Poesie
Dr. Thomas Wohlfahrt, Christiane Lange, Axel Schock, Jana Bialluch
Heiko Strunk, Lyrikline (Online Poetry Archive of Literaturwerkstatt Berlin)
Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission e.V.

Participating Institutes:

Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Delhi
Ute Reimer-Böhner: Director of Library Services, South Asia


Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
Friso Maecker: Director
Partha Chattopadhyay


Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai
Helmut Schippert: Director
Geetha Lakshman: Head of Information & Library
Syed Ibrahim: Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum


Goethe-Institut Dhaka
Philip Küppers: Director
Judith Mirschberger (Director in 2015)


Goethe-Institut Colombo
Dr. Petra Raymond: Director
Jan Ramesh


Goethe-Institut Karachi
Stefan Winkler: Director
Huma Tassawar: Programkoordinator


Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
Amita Desai, Director
Padma PVL / Head Language courses and examinations

Mary Therese Kurkalang: Sikkim
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