Daniela Danz was born in the GDR, now Germany in 1976. She studied art history and German literature and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the construction of hospital chapels. Afterwards she worked as director of a literature museum. She is vice president of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bavaria. Danz teaches creative writing at the University of Hildesheim. She has published four volumes of poetry, Serimunt, Pontus, V and Wildniss, two novels, Lange Fluchten and Türmer and a book of essays and wrote operas libretti, for example, for Ben Frosts opera The Murder of Halit Yozgat in cooperation with the research agency Forensic Architecture. For her work she received several awards, such as the German Award for Nature Writing, and the Awards of the Academies of Arts in Bavaria and Berlin. In 2024 she curated the International Poetry Festival Poetica at the University of Cologne.
丹妮雅拉 · 丹茲，1976年出生於前東德，曾修讀藝術史和德國文學，以關於醫院教堂建築的論文獲得博士學位。之後，她先後擔任一所文學博物館的館長、美因茨科學與文學學院副院長、巴伐利亞美術學院成員等職位。丹茨在希爾德斯海姆大學教授創意寫作。她出版了四本詩集，包括《Serimunt》、《Pontus》和《Wildniss》，還有兩部小說《Lange Fluchten》和《Türmer》，以及一本散文集。此外，她還為歌劇寫劇本，曾與Forensic Architecture研究機構合作創作Ben Frost歌劇《The Murder of Halit Yozgat》。丹茨獲獎眾多，包括德國自然寫作獎、巴伐利亞和柏林藝術學院的獎項等等。2024年，她策劃了科隆大學 “Poetica” 國際詩歌節。