Rouven Rech
Documentary Filmmaker
One-year Scholarship 1999-2000 Universidad del Cine Buenos Aires, Argentina
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"Although it was never my explicit wish to become a documentary filmmaker, I did gradually come to realise where my strengths and weaknesses lie."

Rubem Fonseca
Brazilian Writer
Guest of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme in 1985

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"The literature of Brazil, these are books which only have two things in common: they are written in the same language, namely Portuguese, and are, mostly, written on the American continent."

Michelle Bachelet
President of Chile
One-year Scholarship 1978, Humboldt University Berlin
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"The wounds and scars of the dictatorship will remain forever, and we have to learn to live with them"

Memo Anjel
Colombian Author
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin-Programme 2005

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"I'm a professor for my livelihood and an author for my soul"

Huáscar Barradas
Musician and Professor at the University Institute of Musical Studies (IUDEM), Caracas
One-year Scholarship 1990/91 University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt am Main
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"My flute and me, me and my flute – we're inseparable"

Mario J. Molina
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1995
Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Focus on Chemistry of the Atmosphere
One-year Scholarship 1965/66 University of Freiburg
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"I wanted to do research that is useful for society"

Gonzalo Rojas
Poet
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 1988
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"I have Germany in my brain"

Antonio Skármeta
Author
1973 Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme
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"Europe strongly influenced my writing"

Mario Vargas Llosa
Writer
DAAD Support:
Award Holder in the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 1998
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"Berlin is an inspirational experience for me. The city is constantly in a state of transformation"