Madli Lääne

Estonia

MADLI LÄÄNE is an Estonian filmmaker, lecturer, and consultant. She holds an MFA in Film and Media Production from UT Austin, where she began exploring poetry in her audiovisual practice. Her latest film YES! was awarded Best Video at the 10th Weimar Poetry Film Award. Madli is an associate professor at the Tallinn University’s Baltic Film and Media School, where she teaches audiovisual storytelling, directing, and editing. She also works as a freelance editor and studied film editing at IFS Köln.

Martina Pfeiler

Germany

Martina Pfeiler works as a professor of Anglophone literary and cultural studies in Linz and teaches at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. She received her doctorate from TU Dortmund for her work on U.S.-American intermedial poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries and her habilitation thesis on the early reception of Moby-Dick in popular culture. From 2021 to 2024, she was Vice-PI of the ERC/FWF-funded project “Poetry Off the Page: Literary History and the Spoken Word” at the University of Vienna. In addition to interviews with British poets, this project resulted in a collaborative book entitled In the Event of Poetry: Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context, forthcoming by Palgrave in 2026. Further publications include Poetry Goes Intermedia:  US Poetry of the 20th and 21st Centuries from a Cultural and Media Studies Perspective (Francke Verlag), and Sounts of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets (Narr Verlag) as well as book chapters and articles on poetry films and the popularization of British and US poetry, including through live-streaming. She is co-editor of the poetry slam anthology Pott Meets Poetry: The First Illustrated Slam Anthology of the Ruhr Area (Lektora Verlag). She is part of the Target. Reply Arts Visuals and Poetry team and served as a jury member in 2026. Co-organizer of the Poetry Film Festival in Vienna.
https://martinapfeilercrossroads.com/

Yevgeniy Breyger

Germany

Yevgeniy Breyger is a poet, translator, editor and literary consultant. He has published several collections of poetry and texts on poetics, most recently „Hallo Niemand“ with Suhrkamp, 2026. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Christine Lavant Prize, the Klopstock Prize and the German Business Literature Prize. He has taught creative writing and the art of language at the University of Hildesheim, the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and
the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and has served as a judge at the Young Authors’ Meeting, the Open Mike in Berlin, the Leonce and Lena Prize of the City of Darmstadt and the Mondseer Poetry Prize

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