OSTPOL BERLIN Festival
5.—12. Juli 2026

Maria Bidian is a journalist and author who grew up in Wiesbaden with a Romanian father and a German mother. She studied in Mainz, Dijon, and Hildesheim, spent a year volunteering in Romania, and has worked in Germany for daily newspapers, publishing houses, and film production companies. In 2024, her debut novel, Das Pfauengemälde (The Peacock Painting), was published by Zsolnay/Hanser Literaturverlage. Today, she lives and works in Berlin and Sibiu, Romania, where she is renovating an old farmhouse together with her family.