Zdravko Haderlap, born in 1964 in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla, grew up in Lepena near Bad Eisenkappel / Železna Kapla. After completing his apprenticeship as a precision mechanic in 1979, he devoted his free time to ethnology, folk dancing and playing the harmonica. The founder of the former dance theater / Plesni teater IKARUS (1990), director, choreographer and award-winning author of around 20 plays took over his parents' mountain farm in Lepena near Bad Eisenkappel in 2002. From the Vinkl farm, the schnapps distiller, beekeeper, photographer, project developer, cultural worker and co-founder/initiator of renowned regional art and cultural institutions continues to deal with theater, cultural-historical and scientific-artistic topics.  www.haderlap.at

The musician, composer and producer Anton Tonč Feinig, born in Klagenfurt in 1971, unites different styles, genres, regions and people in his music. As an artist from the bilingual region of Carinthia, he is committed to a lively cultural exchange in the Alps-Adriatic region. In addition to the Tonč Feinig Quartet and the band Fine Noise, he works with renowned artists from the Slovenian region such as Vlado Kreslin and Robert Jukič. Feinig creates exciting personal connections in his artistic realization and combines regional, linguistic and cultural characteristics in his repertoire. He is not only active as a musician, but also as a mountain hiking guide, beekeeper, shepherd, butcher, schnapps distiller, artistic consultant and communicator.

Majda Krivograd grew up in St. Michael and discovered her passion for culture as a young puppeteer. She studied architecture in Graz and then went to Paris, where she rummaged through old archives and books and absorbed the French savoir-vivre. Her first step into stage design for street theater was in Ljubljana, and she has been working as a stage designer since 2009. More than 50 theater performances at home and abroad have already taken her shape.

Jake Šimenc has been working as a lighting designer in the Slovenian theater and contemporary dance scene for many years. In over 25 years of collaboration, he has worked as a lighting designer and occasionally as a set designer with numerous authors, visual artists, directors, choreographers and art groups. He has worked in institutions such as Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, Drama Ljubljana, Royal Opera Stockholm in Sweden and also in the independent scene. He is a long-time employee of the EN-KNAP Institute, where, in addition to lighting design, he also holds the position of technical director. As an author, he has immersed himself in various forms of theater, such as acting without actors and sound theater. In 2005, as initiator and co-author, he created the stage project "16 obratov", in 2011 the play "Feng šus" in the play without actors, which deals with the practices of object theater. The last of his own projects was the children's light play "Mavrica". Jaka has also been active for many years in the field of training for technical and creative professions in the theater and leads lighting design workshops at the Academy for Theater, Film, Radio and Television (AGRFT) and at the Alma Mater Europaea.

The actress and singer Anne Bennent was born into a family of artists in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1963. Her theater work has taken her to Paris, Munich, Salzburg, Berlin, Vienna and Zanzibar. She has worked with renowned directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Robert Wilson, Peter Zadek, Hans Neuenfels, Thomas Langhoff, Ruth Berghaus, Peter Brook, Jevgenij Sitochin, Klaus Michael Grüber, Claus Peymann, Tamás Ascher, Christoph Marthaler, Claudia Bosse and Ingrid Lang. In addition to leading roles in works ranging from Euripides, Shakespeare and Kleist to Bertolt Brecht, Botho Strauß, Elfriede Jelinek and Jon Fosse, Anne Bennent has also realized her own theater and music projects. She has appeared in front of the camera for films such as "Sternsteinhof" by Hans W. Geißendörfer, "Eine Liebe von Swann" by Volker Schlöndorff and "Wambo" by Jo Baier. She can also be heard regularly as a narrator in musical theater works. In 1986 she was awarded the O.-E.-Hasse Prize.

Christina Comtesse completed her dance training at the London School of Contemporary Dance after studying chemistry. After her first engagement at Theater Osnabrück, she worked for eleven years as a dancer with Johann Kresnik at the Bremer Tanztheater and the Volksbühne Berlin. From 2004 to 2006, she was engaged as a training manager at Theater Luzern. From 2006 to 2014, she worked as ballet master and deputy dance theater director to Mei Hong Lin at Staatstheater Darmstadt. Between 2016 and 2018, she was in-house choreographer and deputy dance director at the Landestheater Linz. Comtesse has choreographed operas, operettas, dance and drama for various theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She has also reconstructed plays by Johann Kresnik and was nominated for the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2020.

Martina Seidl was born in Klagenfurt in 1975. At the age of 8, she discovered her love of dance at the Sylvia Prokop ballet school, which she pursued intensively until 1994. Her studies took her to Vienna, where she studied dance education at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna (now MUK) and graduated in 1998. After a period of study in New York at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in 1998, she studied special and remedial education at the University of Vienna from 1999 to 2001. In 2004, she began her studies in theater, film and media studies, which she successfully completed in March 2015. She has been working as a dance teacher, dancer and choreographer since 1999. In addition to her pedagogical work, she has also been artistically active in various theater productions and projects, including with the Volksoper Wien, Theater an der Wien and TanzRaumK - Center for Contemporary Dance and Performance.

Klaus Amann, who grew up in a family of unskilled workers in Kleinwalsertal, mainly read books by Karl May as a child. After studying German and English at the University of Vienna from 1971 to 1976, he completed his doctorate with Herbert Seidler on Adalbert Stifter's "Der Nachsommer". From 1976, he worked as an assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Klagenfurt and habilitated in 1986 with "Der 'Anschluss' österreichischer Schriftsteller an das Dritte Reich". In 1994, he became head of the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research / Carinthian Literature Archive at the University of Klagenfurt. His awards include the annual scholarship for cross-border art forms from the state of Carinthia in 1997, the federal scholarship for the qualification of executives in the international art and culture sector in Berlin in 2000, as well as the Outstanding Artist Award for innovative cultural work from the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria in 2014. At the suggestion of the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Department of Social Design, he received the scholarship from Kunsthalle Exnergasse for a research residency in the sense of "innovative artistic practice" in 2020/21.

Imke Logar Thiessen studied contemporary dance (stage dance) at the "Etage" in Berlin and Butoh in Munich. After various dance projects in Berlin and Potsdam, she has been working in Carinthia since 1996. She was co-founder of the performance group "Skunks" and taught Pilates, contemporary dance and dance theater. Logar Thiessen has been involved in dance theatre productions in Carinthia, including as a dancer in "Jura Soyfer" by Hans Kresnik in 2009. She has been a member of the CCB since 2014 and is involved in the mediation and organization of projects such as "Faustlos". She also choreographed theater and cabaret for the Kulturinitiative Berlin (KIB) from 2009 to 2018 and was involved in various school projects. From 2016 to 2020, she was part of the Generationentheater and participated in theater productions with asylum seekers in the "Ensemble Linde". In 2021, she worked as an assistant director on "Jemand/Nekdo" by Hannes Hametner and Christina Comtesse in Bleiburg.