Michael Götting is a freelance writer living in Berlin. He writes for Zeit Online, fluter.de, Deutschlandfunk and others. He studied North American Studies and Modern German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and teaches writing and media workshops at Archiv der Jugendkulturen, for Schule ohne Rassismus ‒ Schule mit Courage and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. At Ballhaus Naunynstraße he collaborated with Janine Jembere in directing the Kiez-Monatsschau Vol. XVIII and the inclusive theatre performance Decolonize Bodies! Minds! Perceptions! In 2014/2015 Michael Götting was one of the curators of the festival We are tomorrow ‒ Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.