Matthias Schwartz is head of the project »Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe« and co-head of the program area World Literature at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the cultural history of Russian and Soviet space flight, adventure literature, science-fiction and science popularisation, Eastern European youth cultures, memory cultures, and contemporary literatures in a globalised world.
Nina Weller is a postdoctoral researcher in the project »Adjustment and Radicalisation« at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research. 2018-2022 she was the head of the BMBF project »Designing the Past« at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary literature, popular culture, memory studies and representations of history in Eastern European cultures (Belarusia, Russian, Ukrainian).