Peter Anders Editor & Author

Matthew Krouse has been the arts editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper for over a decade. In the Eighties he wrote primarily for film and theatre and his work was banned five times by apartheid censors. Books he has edited include The Invisible Ghetto (Congress of South African Writers/GMP 1996), the first gay and lesbian anthology to emerge from South Africa. His writing has been published in a number of collections at home and abroad. Peter Anders worked at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg after completing high school, and at the Institut Europeen de l'Acteur in Nancy, France. After his studies of philosophy, psychology and drama he worked for German Television (ARD) in 1989, and from 1990 for the Goethe-Institut. First he acted as Head of the Department of Visual Arts at the Headquarters in Munich, and later as Director of the Goethe-Institut in Cameroon, Brazil (Salvador da Bahia) and Bulgaria. Since 2007 he has acted as Head of the Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa, based at the Goethe-Institut in South Africa. From 2011 on he will be Country Director of the Goethe-Institut in China.