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Julie Hill, is a writer and documentary-maker who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Julie has written for numerous New Zealand publications and for television and the stage.

Two of her plays, Stories Told To Me By Girls and Whistle Solo, have been nominated for Best NZ Play at the Chapman Tripp theatre awards.  Her documentary film Broke But Sexy about NZ artists in Berlin has screened on Maori TV.
 
Julie produces music programmes for Radio NZ and was a reporter/director on the TVNZ art show Frontseat.  In August 2014, Julie hosted a panel discussion on short stories at the WORD festival in Christchurch.



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Reiner Zufall, random genius and all-round man of the world, is the illegitimate son of Elvis von Tirptiz, the DDR's official answer to Keith Richards and rhythm guitarist to the band Die rollen steine, and writer of such classics as ‘I Can Get Some Satisfaction (through Dialectical Materialism)’ and ‘We Can Always Get What We Want (in the Proletarian Dictatorship).’ Zufall, however, was born in the West as Norbert Biedermeier, but changed his name when he was expelled from the Konrad Adenauer Memorial Technical College of German Comedy for having invented the notorious ‘Cabbage Joke.’ Following Klaus Kinsky’s ‘I am Jesus’ tour, Zufall traveled across the Federal Republic performing his ‘I am Klaus Kinsky’ show through which he developed the material for his ‘sit down’ comedy. Achieving national fame through the television program ‘How to be a German,’ which culminated in ‘The Great Dutch Caravan Heist,’ he achieved the status of National Comic Genius for writing and staring as Papa Bundesliga in the hit comedy ‘German Football Family’ through which the expression ‘Was ist Beilefeld’ became so famous. He, with his comedy partner Zukunft, then toured the world to film the ‘I Hate The World’ show, completing only the episodes ‘I Hate Denmark’ and ‘I Hate Tibet’ because, while filming ‘I Hate New Zealand,’ he became involved in the events of The Little Revolution, about which only he can write the true and definitive version of this strange and singular historical event.


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