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Daniel Plettenberg/Didine van der Platenvlotbrug, a founding member of the Provence Academy, is a political activist, performer and comedian. SHe also gives lectures in philosophy and is member of a think tank of the German Government. Along with artists and activists from all over Germany, SHe is creating a museum on the perception of femininity in the former red light district St.Pauli.

Dr. phil. Christoph Klütsch is an art historian and philosopher, with fifteen years of teaching experience at German and US-American Universities. His special interest is contemporary art, critical theory as well as the history of Provence. He worked as concept developer on many exhibitions and multimedia publications and he speaks regularly at conferences all around the world. From 2015-2018 he was the academic chair of SCAD Lacoste until he founded the Provence Academy. He lives in Saignon, France.

Gwen Strauss is based in Southern France where she has been the Director of the Dora Maar Cultural Center, an artist residency program based in the Dora Maar House and a cultural center in the historic Hotel de Tingry. She is the author of several award-winning books for children The Hiding Game, The Night Shimmy, and Ruth and the Green Book, a book of poetry, Trail of Stones. She has a forthcoming non-fiction book The Nine, which follows the true story of her great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp.