Bassam Ghazi, born in Beirut in 1974, shuttles between cultures and perspectives and trades in history and stories: biographical, post-migrant, diverse, inclusive and disintegrated. He is a theater educator, director and artistic director of the Import Export Collective at Schauspiel Köln. Furthermore, he offers freelance trainings on diversity, inclusion and racism for theaters, educational and cultural institutions.

Bassam Ghazi is curator for the festival Augenblick mal! 2021 and a member of the board of trustees of the Children's and Youth Theater Center in the BRD.

After studying teaching, Matthias Grön founded the Oldenburg University Theater (OUT) and led OUT as artistic director. In the 2001/2002 season, he moved to the Oldenburg State Theater. He is dramaturg at the Oldenburg State Theater and directs the Young State Theater there. He has also appeared as a director on various occasions.

Jenny Flügge, born in 1977, studied theater, film and media studies and American studies in Frankfurt am Main and was co-founder of the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection. After assisting at the Frankfurt Opera and spielzeiteuropa (Berliner Festspiele), she worked as an assistant director at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 2009 to 2011 she was the organizer of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt at the Theater Heidelberg and artistic production manager of "Familienbande", a two-year theater partnership with the Teatron Beit Lessin, Tel Aviv as part of the Wanderlust Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. At the Staatstheater Karlsruhe in 2011/12, she was in charge of the series "Gastspiel freie Szene," the European Culture Days, the Handel Festival, a playwrights' festival, and a city project, among others. In the 2012/13 season she worked as a freelance production manager for the world premiere of "Stadt der 1000 Feuer" (textXTND / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen), at the Junge Oper Stuttgart and for the festival "Odyssee:Klima" at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. In 2014, she moved to the Kunstfest Weimar as artistic director of organization. There she realized co-productions with Rimini Protokoll, matthaei & konsorten, Mats Staub and Robert Schuster, among others. From 2016 to 2019, she was an acting dramaturge at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin, where she was involved in urban and research projects by Prinzip Gonzo, Nina Gühlstorff, and Helge Schmidt, among others. Since 2020, Jenny Flügge has been a staff member of ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) at "Wege ins Theater", a project within the framework of the federal program "Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education".

Aufgewachsen in Holstein. Studium der Theaterwissenschaft, Germanistik und Philosophie an den Universitäten Hamburg, LMU München und FU Berlin. Nach Lehrjahren in der schwäbisch-badischen Provinz als Dramaturg und Regisseur und im Kultuamt Offenbach freies theaterpädagogisches Arbeiten in verschiedenen Institutionen. Daneben Kritiker und Publizist mit zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Kinder- und Jugendtheater. Redaktion: Reclams Kindertheaterführer. Leiter der Dramaturgieabteilung an der Theaterakademie Spielstatt in Ulm, in gleicher Funktion, sowie Leitung der Theaterpädagogik und Szenisches Schreiben an der Theaterakademie adk-ulm (bis 2014). Szenische Arbeiten in Ulm und Stuttgart mit Studenten, dramaturgische Mitarbeit und Inszenierungen bei freien Gruppen in Österreich und der Schweiz (Figurentheater und Schauspiel). Träger des ASSITEJ-Preises. Juror, bzw. Kurator bei „Augenblickmal“, dem nationalen Treffen für ein junges Publikum (1981 und 2011), sowie langjähriger Juror bei dem Kindermusiktheaterfestival „Traumspiele“ in NRW bis zu deren Auflösung, in der LAFT-Jury Baden-Württemberg.

Sezin Onay was born in Goslar in 1988. After graduating from high school, she studied performing arts and German language and literature at Leibniz University in Hanover. Already at the beginning of her studies, she participated in various projects of the Junges Schauspiel Hannover. Among others, she played in productions of the director Nurkan Erpulat, Marco Štorman and the theater and performance collective "andcompany&Co". She interned in theater pedagogy under the direction of Barbara Kantel and developed her own plays together with people of different backgrounds within the intercultural theater group "Türkisch-Deutsches-Theater" (TDT) of the Theaterhaus Hildesheim. Both during and after her studies, Sezin Onay worked as a freelance theater pedagogue and led theater projects with children and young people at the Junges Schauspiel Hannover, in youth centers, child and youth counseling centers and associations for intercultural communication, migration and refugee work.

Since the 2016/2017 season, Sezin Onay has been a permanent theater pedagogue at the Junges Ensemble Stuttgart. Here she works, among other things, in the kindergarten language support project and is responsible as a leader for various play clubs.

Prof. Dr. Gerd Taube, studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 1997, he has directed the Children's and Youth Theater Center in the Federal Republic of Germany in Frankfurt am Main and is the artistic director of the national biennial of theater for young audiences "Augenblick mal!" in Berlin. From 1997 to 2014, he was a lecturer at the Institute for Youth Book Research at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and has been an honorary professor at the Institute since 2014. From 2005 to 2010 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. Since 1999 he was a member of the board of the Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung (BKJ) and from 2009 to 2018 its chairman.

Lisa Zehetner studied cultural and media studies in Düsseldorf and cultural education and cultural management in Mönchengladbach. From 2011 to 2017, she was a dramaturge specializing in children's and youth theater at the FFT Düsseldorf. In 2016, she was a member of the jury for the German Children's Theater Award and the German Youth Theater Award. From 2017 to 2020, she is dramaturg at the Junge Nationaltheater, where she works with Monstertruck, Hannah Biedermann, James & Priscilla, Mathias Becker, subbotnik and Carlos Manuel, among others. Since December 2018 she is a member of the board of ASSITEJ Germany. She currently works as a freelance dramaturg.